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18 Oct 06 19:24 by Crabbyappleton in category Uncategorized To news archive

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Looks like the crew over at Trusted Reviews have gotten hold of a Sony VAIO with a Blu-ray drive. They put up a four page overview for your inspection. Other than value, (I guess it’s a little pricey) they gave the unit high marks, which is impressive for a first out device!

I actually used the Sony to finally answer a question that I’ve been wondering about for a while. What happens when you try and watch an HDCP encrypted movie on a display without HDCP? I hooked up a bog standard 17in, 1,280 x 1,024 display and tried to play a movie. The supplied InterVideo WinDVD BD software started to play and then stopped – and that was that. So there you go – the disc won’t even play.

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Those interested in reading more about this Media Center, should follow the link over to Trusted Reviews.

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4 Comments

jef195: Posts: 445; Posted on: 18 Oct 06 20:02

Interesting find Crabby .

Ian@CDRLabs.com: Posts: 153; Posted on: 18 Oct 06 20:32

That's odd that the movie didn't play at all with a standard monitor. If the video driver supported COPP, it still should have played, just at a lower resolution.

Crabbyappleton: Posts: 5756; Posted on: 18 Oct 06 20:55

In Maximum PC Magazine, they got hold of a Samsung BR player and got their asses kicked for hours trying to get it to playback movies. It kept complaining "improper environment" over HDMI after a few seconds of playback. Some displays were even supposedly HDCP compliant and they triesd several before they got one to work...

mea_culpa: Posts: 51; Posted on: 19 Oct 06 00:25

:r Urrgh, a slot loader. Nice looking unit, but still, a slot loader?! BR Media is meant to be fairly fragile and prone to Data corruption from scratches, no? Someone at Sony is having a laugh..

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