Can Sony VGX-XL302 play BD+

[Derrickpetr]

I am having problems playing "Fantastic 4 - Rise of Silver Surfer" on an XL302 using updated version of WinDVD for BD (v 8.0.08.123) downloaded from Sony site. It stutters then crashes after about 3 mins. Older Blu-ray disk like Casino Royal and regular DVD's are fine

I have latest Nvidia graphics driver (7.1.5.10.9813) downloaded from vaio support installed

I do know this Fox disk uses the new encryption BD+ and when checking the bitrate it reads 0.000Mbps (whereas Casino Royal reads 35.000) and I found the following statement on Sony Support site:-

“When Playback is not smooth: audio and video freeze or skip sometimes.

Depending on the hardware specifications of your VAIO, you may experience sound interruptions and/or dropped frames when playing BD title encoded in VC1 or H.264 with very high bit rates.

This problem may be noticed on models that play BD through software decoding (VGN-AR11S/VGN-AR11SR/VGN-AR21S/VGN-AR21SR/VGC-RC204/VGC-RM1N/VGX-XL202/VGX-XL302)”

See Question 26 FAQ's then Question 6 -http://support.vaio.sony.co.uk/knowledge/kb.asp?site=voe_en_GB_cons&kb_link=http://kb.sony-europe.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,KB=VAIO_MSFT,ts=one_vaio_ms_en_GB,S earchSources=obj(11132),question=obj(16777705)bj (16777709),Natural=windvd

So does this mean Sony's -Top of the range Blu-ray Media Centre is not up to the job of playing back latest Blu-ray titles encoded with BD+?