Xbox Dash Update Warning for Softmod users

[DYNAGOD]

DO NOT PLAY THE NEW VAN HELSING MOVIE IN YOUR XBOX!!!

as soon as you turn on your xbox, it updates your Xbox Dashboard version to the most recent version
i dont have a clue why they would place an XBE on a movie DVD but this update will obviously render your softmods useless!!
watch it on your dvd player!

[CthulhuLuke]

I believe the new star wars movies do this as well..  Xbox hackers are still trying to figure out exactly how they make these "multi-platform" dvds that can be read on a regular DVD player AND an xbox.  It's some kind of multi-format that has a built in default.xbe set to autorun if its put into an xbox.  Theres an article on www.xbox-scene.com
ps: if you're a softmodder, you should not have your xbox connected to the internet anyways.

[DYNAGOD]

i run audio expolit,and i dont play live games, so im not worried. plus i have a complete HD backup so i can downgrade my kernal if i get upgraded/corrupted anyways(as audio does so easily) . but many dont! and i was a bit alarmed as there is nothing on the DVD or the rental box (blockbuster) to indicate that it was going to happen.plus it does it without prompt..as soon as you put the dvd in and close the door its upgrades,its doesnt even ask..
when i backup my games i remove the updatedash.xbe from the game to prevent any such occurance..i didnt knwo i was going to have to start worrying about movies as well!
 if a movie has an Xbox game tie in ,i guess its becoming more and more likely the film has a dash update.xbe on it....

[Grasshopper]

That's quite sinister. It's BS like this that has put me off buying consoles in the past.

[SOAPboy]

I believe the new star wars movies do this as well..  Xbox hackers are still trying to figure out exactly how they make these "multi-platform" dvds that can be read on a regular DVD player AND an xbox.  It's some kind of multi-format that has a built in default.xbe set to autorun if its put into an xbox.  Theres an article on www.xbox-scene.com
ps: if you're a softmodder, you should not have your xbox connected to the internet anyways.

if your a softmodder with a crappy hack you shouldnt.. if your using UDE 1 or UDE2 its perfectly fine.

still dont use the DVDS but UDE1 and 2 have update protection..

[SeaMonkey]

WARNING!!!!

Don't watch Van Helsing at ALL!
It is the worst movie in 15 years.

If there was a bad scene in a movie, this move RE-DOES it, and does it worse.

**spoilers...if carrion can in fact BE spoiled**

Everyone swings on a line, including Frankenstein's Monster.
As if that wasn't enough, there is also a trapese scene.
Yes that's right folks, fighting on trapese!

Van Helsing we find out, is the fallen Angel Gabriel, who lost his memories, now a secret agent for the Vatican.
Now how bad is it? Don't answer yet, there's MORE!

Vampires lay eggs!
**pause for effect, then re-state**
Vanpires Lay eggs!
And in those eggs are um...dead gargoyals, that can only be brought to life, with the electricity that comes from inside of Frankenstein's Monster. I am not kidding!

Now how bad is it? Wait, we are just getting started!

Horse carraige scene right out of Speed.
Dead smiling down from Heaven scene right out of Lion King!
Dracula lives in a castle in a pocket dimension. (Right out of Dragon Ball Z?)

I am only scratching the surface, here, so let me just give you one more to chew on before you throw two hours of your life away.....

Van Helsing, the amnesiatic angel, secret agent, can only defeat Dracula by becoming a WEREWOLF. (Not to worry, Dracula of course has the cure in a vial hidden and guarded, deep in the dimensional-pocket shrouded castle!

These are all plot devices by the way, I haven't even touched on PLOT. That's where it gets really bad.

[DYNAGOD]

i shut the movie off at the ballroom scene with the dancing..
that was enough for me, my intelligence and taste had been sufficently insulted at that point..
wouldnt recomend this film to anyone..