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Trouble With Blu-Ray Player?

Having trouble with my bluray player on my sony laptop.?

  • just bought a sony vaio lap top with a bluray player and an hdmi out put. when i link it to my full 1080p toshiba tv via a hdmi cable to watch a blu ray this message appears. YOUR DISPLAY ENVIRONMENT DOES NOT SUPPORT PROTECTED CONTENT PLAYBACK it works fine if i don't hook it up to the tv but whats the point of having a full hd tv if u can't play blu rays on it. surly this can't be right this was a big reason why i bought the lap top in the first place! please help.

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    Your Blu-Ray Player is meant to play movies on your laptop. The HDMI output lets you use an HDTV capable display but it appears there is a restriction placed on the Blu-Ray that prevents the player from transmitting the images through your HDMI output (likely to protect from getting the content ripped as it streams) So it sounds like it's a copy protection issue with the Blu-Ray. Have you tried other Blu-Ray disks? Distribution companies don't all use the same type of DRM (Digital Rights Management) copy protection, so it might be something that only applies with that movie or movie distribution company.

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Im having the same trouble.. Ive a samsung 40" 1080p trying to play blu-ray through HDMI cable and getting same msg. Ive a short HDMI cable approx 1m long. Any 1 else know any solutions?

GRAHAM P

When you connect a video source to a display screen via an HDMI cable, the 2 devices perform a HDCP handshake. This handshake is basically to ensure that a unique code is used between the 2 devices and the content cannot be copied. In order for the handshake to take place, all devices must be able to handle HDCP. I think HDCP came out in HDMI V1.1, so most devices under 2 years old will support this version of HDMI connection. A Sony laptop and a full 1080P TV should both be at HDMI V1.3, so HDCP shouldn't be a problem. Questions: What length of HDMI cable are you running between the laptop and the TV? Is there anything else fitted in the HDMI path between the laptop and the TV (eg an HDMI switch or splitter)? If you are using a long, cheap HDMI cable (5m or longer), then this could be the problem. Your HDMI cable could even be faulty. Try using a shorter (1m) HDMI cable and see if this works. If this works, then your long cable isn't up to the job. People think any HDMI cables will work, as it is a digital signal. This is true for short lengths of 1-2m, but longer HDMI cables need to of a better quality to handle the bandwidth of data that is transmitted. Standard HDMI cables use 28AWG wires (very thin), but better quality ones use 24AWG wires which reduces impedance and capacitance to improve transmission. Like you, I would expect the Sony Blu-ray to be able to play discs via HDMI onto a TV!

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