Comments on: Playing Blu-Ray discs on my Sony Vaio notebook…? http://www.blu-ray1st.com/blu-ray/playing-blu-ray-discs-on-my-sony-vaio-notebook/ Blu-ray1st, the next-generation optical disc storage Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:03:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: SarasotaRiders http://www.blu-ray1st.com/blu-ray/playing-blu-ray-discs-on-my-sony-vaio-notebook/comment-page-1/#comment-3340 SarasotaRiders Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:21:10 +0000 http://www.blu-ray1st.com/playing-blu-ray-discs-on-my-sony-vaio-notebook/#comment-3340 There's more info here than i can type here, so read this article very carefully: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCP HD DVD, Blu-ray Disc and DVD players (with HDMI or DVI connectors) use HDCP to establish an encrypted digital connection. If the display device—or in the case of using a PC to decrypt and play back HD DVD or Blu-ray media, the graphics card (hardware, drivers and playback software)—does not support HDCP, then a connection cannot be established. As a result, a black picture and/or error message will likely be displayed instead of the video content. Content providers for HD DVD and Blu-ray media can set an Image Constraint Token (ICT) flag that will only output full-resolution digital signals using a digital HDCP connection. There’s more info here than i can type here, so read this article very carefully:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCP

HD DVD, Blu-ray Disc and DVD players (with HDMI or DVI connectors) use HDCP to establish an encrypted digital connection. If the display device—or in the case of using a PC to decrypt and play back HD DVD or Blu-ray media, the graphics card (hardware, drivers and playback software)—does not support HDCP, then a connection cannot be established. As a result, a black picture and/or error message will likely be displayed instead of the video content.

Content providers for HD DVD and Blu-ray media can set an Image Constraint Token (ICT) flag that will only output full-resolution digital signals using a digital HDCP connection.

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