Tomsgames videos won't open anymore

Hi Stromm,

Sorry you are having trouble. Yes, the videos are in Flash. A few users have had problems because of ad blocker software they were using. The videos seem to be loading fine on a few tests, so hopefully it is a temporary issue.

-Ben

I have got the same problem. No video shows up. On a newly installed Xp I have tried Ie6, Opera, firefox and (the upgrade to) Ie7. Disabled the adblocker in Ie7pro. Lowered all security and privacy settings. Nothing works.
And, like stromm, all other videos works from other sites.

I've experienced the same problem. I searched my hosts file for anything with toms in it and removed it. Then I restarted my browser (Opera) and they work again.

I really don't wish to cut out all of the ads at tomshardware and related sites, but I'm so irritated by flashing nonsense distracting me while I'm trying to read an article. And I'm not about to subject myself to commercials so that I can watch a game trailer through flash that I could download and fullscreen at a higher quality elsewhere.

If the video still doesn't display, click on it and see where it tries to send you so that you know what to remove from your hosts.

Yep, can't watch any of the videos any more either. Tried them on 4 of the 8 computers here at the house and gave up. Something happened a week ago that caused this. I noticed a Microsoft patch for XP around the same time. Related?

After having the same problem on two pc's with IE7 I've found a workaround.

When the page is loading you will for an instant see the flash video playing and play controls before the player window turns black. (The use of the refresh button gives you more playback time for some reason)

Press the stop key in the IE browser before the player turns black and the video will play as usual.

wow it says 'false' on the black player screen, not very visible though, black text on black background but painting it with the cursor turns it white.

this site is messed up....

edit: yay, thanks pc-cola for the tip, it works

tom's hardware and tom's games videos have this problem, while tom's guide does not. It seems that the flash ads are conflicting with the flash player.

Works for me now.

Thanks!

Double checked opera. Opera 9.26 +Flash 9 and Flash 8. Can't reproduce the error.

Mac users might be seeing something related to the "ESPN error", but so far, everthing looks ok on this end.