Starz PLAY "Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing this file" error!?!

My laptop running Windows 7 is having the error, " Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file." when trying to play downloaded movies whereas the "live Starz TV" works fine. My netbook is working properly though, anyone seen this before?

- if you're still having the issue, make sure you are running all the latest video/audio codec's for windows media player and win 7 and also take a moment to check this article from microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/10/errors.aspx
if you find an answer let us know what fixed it!
buggin wrote:
My laptop running Windows 7 is having the error, " Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file." when trying to play downloaded movies whereas the "live Starz TV" works fine. My netbook is working properly though, anyone seen this before?

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