I'm hoping somebody here may be able to help before I trot off to the AV forum.
Just bought a Sony Vaio notebook AR61ZU which has Blu-ray DVD,this works well on the notebook but I've spent all afternoon trying to get it to play through my Panasonic TH-42PX600B without success.
I keep getting an error message which seems to be saying that I can't play protected material through the TV,does that mean that for some reason they've decided to block playback of Blu-ray films from laptop devices through TV's?
I know it's connected OK through the HDMI cable because I can see the demo video and play I-tunes through the audio with the i-tunes screen on the TV.
Hope somebody can help . 2008 8.5 TDV6 SE Stornaway,Ebony and Zebrano.

ChrisP wrote:

does that mean that for some reason they've decided to block playback of Blu-ray films from laptop devices through TV's?

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Chris,

Are you trying to view on both the laptop and Pana at the same time? Try just switching to use the Pana as a the primary display (and nothing on your laptop screen).

Alternatively look at software/firmware updates for the VAIO - even though its new the firmware etc may be old

Finally try a lower resolution - 720p or even lower - this will confirm whether the problem is a HDCP (1080p) problem

Let me know how you get on

Kaine

just done a quick google and found this

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=38475

looks like a common problem and covers the ideas I listed along with others

Kaine

Thanks guys
Kaine,
Thanks for the info,the link seems to answer exactly as they have all got the exact same issue,I'm a bit pissed at the moment so will have another look in the morning to see if the fixes on the link will work.
I'm pretty good normally with techy things so how do normal non techy people manage to set these things up?
Just wish developers would spend more time making things easier for normal people to set up. 2008 8.5 TDV6 SE Stornaway,Ebony and Zebrano.

ChrisP wrote:

Just wish developers would spend more time making things easier for normal people to set up.

Tim,

More to the point, the IT industry goes too quick for any really qualified 'durability' testing to be carried out

Kaine