advice needed on Blu-Ray laptop(UK) and USA movies

[dognosh]

hi guys
i have read that Blu-Ray movies will be restricted to region coding,3 of them.
But my american movies seem to play on my british bought vaio ? !

having a look at my 'CRASH' movie i bought over the pond it doesn't seem to have any markings saying it is region coded(USA & JAPAN is region 1 and EUROPE & AFRICA is 2 , yes ?)

so is my vaio player unrestricted(multi-region) or is the movie unrestricted ?

in UK the laptop is a VAIO VGN-AR11S


ty

p.s. anyone know if laptop has HDMI 1.2 or 1.2A as i can't seem to find info on it ?

[dognosh]

ok the actual disc say region 1,so my laptop blu ray is unrestricted ?
my thinking is if restricted then it won't play movie at all ? (rather than play it at lower res ?)

just hope sony don't release a firmware update putting restriction on it in future

[sawdust]

Originally Posted by dognosh

ok the actual disc say region 1,so my laptop blu ray is unrestricted ?
my thinking is if restricted then it won't play movie at all ? (rather than play it at lower res ?)

just hope sony don't release a firmware update putting restriction on it in future

When i had mine, if you look at the properties of the bd drive, you will see a section where you can set the region, as of right now I think it is set to all. (maybe because of the limited movies. I am sure in the future they will afix the coding to it.

[Psiweaver]

Note to self don't download and install drivers for your blu-ray drive without backing your drivers up so as to remain region free.

[dognosh]

Originally Posted by Psiweaver

Note to self don't download and install drivers for your blu-ray drive without backing your drivers up so as to remain region free.

ok,connected laptop via HDMI to an HDTV in a shop
laptop showed flick but not TV ?

so is it restricted,hence won't go out of HDMI port?
or is there a setting i need to set? (which i can not find)
or possibly my HDMI and TV's HDMI were not compliant ?

ty guys

[Applefiend]

OK what I think you have there is HDCP. Any digital output on a blu ray player is encrypted with this HDCP crap. Once every 20 odd seconds you get a second of video, then it spits out random data. On a TV or monitor that's HDCP compliant the TV and the player sync up and you get your video. There's hdmi/DVI-D connectors that have HDCP, others(the older ones) that don't.

They were also going to bugger up analogue signals too, to just above DVD quality, but they backed down.

Also I think your laptop is Region A Blu ray even though it's from the UK. Play any disk from US or japan, the old NTSC regions.