Blu - Ray Problem

[Ali Tait]

I'm wondering if anyone can help me with a problem. I work away from home, and I take my Vaio laptop with me, which has a blu ray drive. The place I am staying has a large flatscreen Pioneer jobbie, to which I have connected the Laptop via HDMI. It plays DVD's fine, but I recently bought the Star Wars blu ray boxset, and this will not play via HDMI on the tv, saying "This display environment is not supported" or somesuch. I know it will work as I've played blu rays at home from the laptop onto our Toshiba.

I have tried switching off the laptop screen, but to no avail, so I thought I'd tap the knowledge here. Anyone any ideas?

[The Vinyl Adventure]

It's probably a 720 screen that doesn't like 1080p
In the the bluray player program see if there is a way to set it to output in a downscaled format ... 1080i or 720p will more than likely work I'd guess
Just try the resolutions until one works ...

[Ali Tait]

Yes, tried that too mate. Still didn't work. Thanks for trying though!

[The Vinyl Adventure]

No worries!
Try a VGA cable instead?

[Stratmangler]

Have you tried other Blu Rays through the Vaio/Pioneer ?
It might be copy protection on the Star Wars Discs.

[MartinT]

It's most likely an incompatible display format for the TV and may be trying to show, e.g. 1080p on a non-hi-res set. As Hamish says, try a VGA cable if the TV has an appropriate socket.

[Ali Tait]

I'd have thought if the tv has an HDMI input, it would play blu rays?

I don't have another blu ray to try, I'll go and buy one.

[Stratmangler]

I'd have thought if the tv has an HDMI input, it would play blu rays?

I don't have another blu ray to try, I'll go and buy one.

My thinking is that maybe the PC isn't outputting to the TV because there's copy protection in place to stop it doing it.
With a BDP I suspect that everything would work fine.

[MartinT]

I'd have thought if the tv has an HDMI input, it would play blu rays?

Not necessarily! For instance, my old TV would accept 1080i into HDMI but not 1080p. I had to configure my player to send only 1080i and then it worked. You can maybe configure your laptop BD software to do the same. BDs generally want to send as 1080p, i.e. the highest resolution.

[Stratmangler]

Not necessarily! For instance, my old TV would accept 1080i into HDMI but not 1080p. I had to configure my player to send only 1080i and then it worked. You can maybe configure your laptop BD software to do the same. BDs generally want to send as 1080p, i.e. the highest resolution.

Thinking about it Pioneer stopped making TVs a few years ago - it's a possibility (although unlikely) that the TV doesn't support progressive scan.