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Vista and Blu-ray
Hi. Sorry if this has been raised before, but I only just got a new Notebook
with Vista Home Premium on board, so after years of familiarity with XP, I'm now struggling to come to grips with the slightly different feel of the new OS. The question I have concerns playing a Blu-ray disc on the Notebook. It uses an enhanced version of WinDVD to play HD discs, and there is no problem watching on the Notebook's own screen. However, it comes with both SVHS and HDMI ports/sockets, and it seemed reasonable to try playing back the Blu-ray movie I had borrowed (as I haven't seen one before) on the main TV, 40-inch screen and all that. But the minute I plugged in the HDMI cable the movie stopped playing and there was a brief note about the 'environment' being 'protected'. Obviously, it makes no sense at all to be unable to play a DVD whether SD or HD through the appropriate ports, so I had a little trawl round the internet today and discovered that the problem might lie with Vista itself. Can anyone here shed any light on this for me, please. P |
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Vista and Blu-ray
here is a brief explanation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCP peter -- DISCLAIMER: If you find a posting or message from me offensive, inappropriate, or disruptive, please ignore it. If you don't know how to ignore a posting, complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate... ;-) "Peter" wrote in message ... Hi. Sorry if this has been raised before, but I only just got a new Notebook with Vista Home Premium on board, so after years of familiarity with XP, I'm now struggling to come to grips with the slightly different feel of the new OS. The question I have concerns playing a Blu-ray disc on the Notebook. It uses an enhanced version of WinDVD to play HD discs, and there is no problem watching on the Notebook's own screen. However, it comes with both SVHS and HDMI ports/sockets, and it seemed reasonable to try playing back the Blu-ray movie I had borrowed (as I haven't seen one before) on the main TV, 40-inch screen and all that. But the minute I plugged in the HDMI cable the movie stopped playing and there was a brief note about the 'environment' being 'protected'. Obviously, it makes no sense at all to be unable to play a DVD whether SD or HD through the appropriate ports, so I had a little trawl round the internet today and discovered that the problem might lie with Vista itself. Can anyone here shed any light on this for me, please. P |
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Vista and Blu-ray
Peter - thank you for the link.
I'm still wondering why it's okay for a Blu-ray disc player to output a movie in HD via its HDMI port to a similarly-equipped television (and, I gather from my son, the same goes for PlayStations), but a computer equipped with a Blu-ray disc player and appropriate s/w, with the Vista OS, can't. It seems illogical to me. I wonder if people running Macs have the same problem - in other words, is it an illogicality in the OS philosophy, or perhaps even in the laws or agreements governing this aspect of OS functionality, or is it a shortcoming of the hardware [computer] manufacturer for not ensuring that an HDCP-crippled system will funtion in the way one might reasonably expect? Seems to me (getting rather off topic, I'm afraid) that rather than worry about copy protection, copying being a fact of life for certain people, every movie supplied on portable media, such as DVD discs, should have a Pay-per-view function, which requires the input of a randomly-changing PIN or code before allowing a sesion to open. That way, the original discs could be almost given away, and the more copies, the merrier - until, of course, somebody works out how to crack the system ;-) P "peter" wrote in message ... here is a brief explanation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCP peter -- DISCLAIMER: If you find a posting or message from me offensive, inappropriate, or disruptive, please ignore it. If you don't know how to ignore a posting, complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate... ;-) "Peter" wrote in message ... Hi. Sorry if this has been raised before, but I only just got a new Notebook with Vista Home Premium on board, so after years of familiarity with XP, I'm now struggling to come to grips with the slightly different feel of the new OS. The question I have concerns playing a Blu-ray disc on the Notebook. It uses an enhanced version of WinDVD to play HD discs, and there is no problem watching on the Notebook's own screen. However, it comes with both SVHS and HDMI ports/sockets, and it seemed reasonable to try playing back the Blu-ray movie I had borrowed (as I haven't seen one before) on the main TV, 40-inch screen and all that. But the minute I plugged in the HDMI cable the movie stopped playing and there was a brief note about the 'environment' being 'protected'. Obviously, it makes no sense at all to be unable to play a DVD whether SD or HD through the appropriate ports, so I had a little trawl round the internet today and discovered that the problem might lie with Vista itself. Can anyone here shed any light on this for me, please. P |
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Vista and Blu-ray
"Peter" wrote in message
... Peter - thank you for the link. I'm still wondering why it's okay for a Blu-ray disc player to output a movie in HD via its HDMI port to a similarly-equipped television (and, I gather from my son, the same goes for PlayStations), but a computer equipped with a Blu-ray disc player and appropriate s/w, with the Vista OS, can't. It's down to the software you're using - for whatever reason. It's deciding not to send the content over. It seems all the big software companies have gone overboard on locking things down as much as possible, there's no technical reason why they're doing this, and certainly Windows plays no part in making the decision. You could use something like AnyDVD HD which would strip the protection off the disc before the player will see it. I use it to play back HD DVD and Blu-ray when using PowerDVD, which wants me to have an HDCP monitor. I wonder if people running Macs have the same problem No they don't. They have whole new problems, like HD DVD and Blu-ray discs not playing at all. -- Paul Smith, Yeovil, UK. Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User. http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/ http://www.windowsresource.net/ *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail* |