topic Re: Blue Ray Problems in PCs & Accessories

Blue Ray Problems

weathers23 — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:14:52 GMT

I bought an AR21s laptop over 3 months ago with the prospect of enjoying the new Blu Ray technology. Well in a nut shell with the few updates and fixes provided on the site a complete re boot and endless searching for patches all sony can come up with is a security patch. Well that would be great if the drive would play blu ray dvd's without stuttering. It is clearly conflict or incompatibility with the software provided. There have been a number of complaints and what are Sony doing to develop a patch to cure this problem. Looks like i will be sending it back. Very annoyed.

Re: Blue Ray Problems

chefchaudart — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:33:02 GMT

You make me anxious.

I wait for "Casino Royal" that should come end of this month.

I will post my remarks at that time !

Re: Blue Ray Problems

kee-lo_ — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:41:02 GMT

I have got Lethal Weapon to test on an AR31S so I'll get back to you on how easy it was LOL

Re: Blue Ray Problems

budgetmil — Wed, 16 May 2007 13:26:45 GMT

Am I the only one to have no problems with blu-ray on AR21S ? I have now (unfortunately) upgraded to Vista but before, with XP MCE, I had no problems (after installing the firmware upgrade for the drive and all fixes provided by this site). The only "problem" I discovered is that watching blu-ray uses a high percentage of the CPU so if you have other tasks running in the background, it can cause problems. Were I in your place, I would try to upgrade the Nvidia drivers. Unfortunately Sony does not provide very recent drivers, but on www.laptopvideo2go.com you will find a way to install the latests Nvidia drivers.

By the way, I just discovered an update named "Other" on this site for the AR21S, but the size of this update and the version number let me think it is the long-awaited WinDVD BD version for Vista. I will try this evening and let you know ! There is also since 2 or 3 days an update for camera capture utility.

Re: Blue Ray Problems

budgetmil — Thu, 17 May 2007 08:02:33 GMT

Good News, the download is really WinDVD BD and it works fine. I also installed the camera capture utility update but I don't see any changes (it works fine, as before)

Re: Blue Ray Problems

kee-lo_ — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:43:09 GMT

Hi guys,

I redownloaded the WinDVD BD edition to watch the film, and it worked second time round, so not sure what's going on there!

I thought the quality wasn't bad, considering Lethal Weapon was made in 1989, classic movie though, if you like that sort of film.

Still, I would have prefered to see this on a bigger screen than the laptop's 17", but when I watched The Transporter on the XL201 my friend has it was absolutely amazing, so draw your conclusion from that.

Re: Blue Ray Problems

nmgarcia — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:12:26 GMT

Hi.
I have a 21S with Vista and i just made the new update of WinDVD.
Now, when i try to see any blu-ray it appears the following message in the screen...
'This Media is not supported'.
I can see the content of the disc but not the movie.
Next week i'll go to Sony Portugal to demand explanations. I bought this model because of blu-ray technology and i can use it ?????
Best regards to all,
Nuno Garcia.

Re: Blue Ray Problems

kee-lo_ — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:57:18 GMT

Make sure you have set it to region B

Re: Blue Ray Problems

nmgarcia — Mon, 21 May 2007 07:59:22 GMT

Thanks's Kee-lo for your answer but WinDVD only have region choice for DVD not Blu-Ray. All the blu-ray's i have came from US. I have tried all the movies in other 21S with Windows Media Center Edition and all worked fine.

Re: Blue Ray Problems

stone69 — Mon, 21 May 2007 08:57:32 GMT

My WinDVD, as originally supplied, has two region setting folders. One for DVD the other for BD; although the one for BD was not set correctly when I received my AR31S, and I had also some troubles to change it before I could watch a Blueray movie. The number of region changes you can do is limited to 5. So it's not possible to change forth and back if you have BD-discs from Europe or the US...unless there is a trick to re-set the counter

Re: Blue Ray Problems

raymundka — Mon, 21 May 2007 12:00:31 GMT

I have a VAIO AR-11S. It came with Windows MCE 2005 and I have now Vista Home Premium too as a 2nd OS. I have installed all drivers and utilities for both OS including nVidia driver and WinDVD BD updates. Running XP MCE I can play back BD's using the updated WinDVD software that came with the notebook but when I want to watch it on my full HD Toshiba LCD TV the playback is tearing.I have installed the KB835221 hotfix, the nVidia driver update and the WinDVD update (ITAOTH-01205605-UN)but no change, playback stops all the time.
My VISTA is a clean install and I have found the WinDVD BD for Vaio Vista Upgrade among the
downloads for AR21S (for a mysterious reason Sony does not include it for AR11S downloads)
and installed it. It plays DVD-s fine and Vista autoplay offers it for BD playback too but
when I insert a blue-ray disk I get the "MEDIA NOT SUPPORTED" ERROR MESSAGE.
How come a BD playing software doesn't support blue-ray disks?
If anyone knows how to make playback continuous (OS:XP) or possible at all (VISTA)
PLEASE WRITE!

Re: Blue Ray Problems

chefchaudart — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:30:05 GMT

Just to mention my own experience

I finally get Casino Royal, I watched this movie without any problem, what a great experience ! thanks Sony.