Panasonic UJ-220 vs. UJ 210 - Sony Laptop

[jerseyjordan]

Looking for some help! I have a Sony FZ480E that had a UJ-220 Panasonic Blu Ray player in it. Its broken and I need to replace it. Not looking to pay the price for a UJ220 if the UJ120 will work. Can anyone let me know of any issues between the two are and if the 120 will work in my Sony? Thank you!

[hendra]

UJ-120 is a read only drive. It can not burn blu-ray disc. UJ-220 is a read and write drive. It can burn blu-ray disc. Other than that, there should be no problem replacing UJ-220 with UJ-120

[h_key]

yes the 210 can read-write DVD
google it and see all that comes up

[kidziti]

Hi - I'm new to the forum and just didn't find this info in the stickies, and I apparently can post only to existing threads since I'm a new member. So excuse me if this is somewhat off-topic...

I have a new Vaio EB with a Blu Ray drive (play-only BR, read/write dvd). It also has an HDMI out. So I figure it's as simple as firing up the movie in a software player and watching it on our 50" plasma - right? Well, the sound is great and the video certainly is there, but the quality is certainly not anywhere like our dedicated standard DVD player. Admittedly I was playing a standard dvd (we have no BR discs right now), but still...

This is my question - when I hook up the laptop PC to the a/v receiver via hdmi, I see the pc's desktop on the plasma monitor. So when I play a dvd disc, I am essentially seeing a picture of a picture - with an obvious drop in fidelity. The image certainly looks sharper on the laptop monitor than the fuzzier second-generation copy of that on the plasma screen.

What am I doing wrong here? Is there a way to set up the laptop's Blu Ray player so that it outputs directly to the plasma monitor in the same way a dedicated BR player would? Or is just everything on the laptop screen just duplicated onto the external monitor?