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biogoody
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spartacus season 2 disk 1 not loading on ps3

I am trying to play my spartacus season 2 disk on my ps3 but it is not loading.  When I put the disk in it took about 20-25 min for it to even load the disk and when it did look like it was about to play it displayed a 80029940 error.  All my other blu ray movies are loading fine included disk 2 of spartacus.

I have tried the disk multiple times but it still does not load, I have unplugged my ps3 for 20 min as I seen in forums after I googled this issue, change the suggested settings but nothing seems to work.  Could this be a faulting disk and should it be returned to future shop or is there another possible cause/solution?

I have also checked the Firmware and the system indicates that it has the lastest version already

Thanks

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Atomic
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Re: spartacus season 2 disk 1 not loading on ps3

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What have you tried so far?

 

There are many proposed solutions to this error posted on forums such as

http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-3-Generell-diskusjon/Error-message-80029940

/td-p/6832951

 

and

 

http://community.us.playstation.com/thread/1820199?start=0&tstart=0

 

Have you tried any of those?

 

If not, bring the disc into Future Shop and try it out on a BD player and/or PS3 there to see if it is your actual disc or not.  My guess is that it is not your disc.

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biogoody
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Re: spartacus season 2 disk 1 not loading on ps3

Thanks for the response,

I have done all of the test those 2 websites state (short of replacing the blu ray lense), i had the super white set to off, turned off the network connect and the frames per second but it still does not play.

I have reset the ps3 settings and once i reset everything the icon was there but it may have just been because it took about 20 min to set everything back up because when i went into the disk i got the error code again and after ejecting the disk and putting it back in it would not show the spartacus disk icon again

Any other suggestions before i return this disk for another one

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Atomic
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Re: spartacus season 2 disk 1 not loading on ps3

I help debug issues on the Playstation Network Forums, and one bug that I had found was a video bug in the OS which does not switch resolutions properly.

 

If you have your PS3 set to 1080p, try setting it to a lower resolution like 720p, and see if the movie plays.

 

The other thing you can do is take your disc and try it on another PS3 -- either a friend's or one at Future shop -- and test it there.  That may help you determine if it is a disc problem or not.