Blu-Ray will not play on HDMI connected HD TV

[Tluvstech]

Hello guys,

I brought a HP dv7-1175nr last month.  I just put a bluray disk in it today.  Said it would not play in this display mode.  Did some checking, read this thread and figured how to make the movie play on my tv.  If you cycle through the display modes, one will have a blank screen.  Leave it on this screen and use your remote control and the movie will play.  Now to get the sound working...

[Tluvstech]

I got the sound to work, I had the computer sound muted. Now I'm good to go.  By the way, you cycle through screen modes by holding down the function key and pressing f4.  I put Iron man in but it not as smooth as I would like.  I guess its back to the tweeking board.  Any suggestions?

[dwill5228]

Which remote? The one that came with the TV, the computer, or the cable box?

[dwill5228]

That's great! I'll try it.

But I still say you shouldn't have to jump thru hoops to do something that the mfg said it WOULD do

anyway! AND charges the customer extra $ to have it installedd on the computer!

[RasterBlaster]

OK... I've scanned back through all the threads and I think (I hope) there is still a little room for some more learnings. Please bear with me. If I've covered something before, I apologize, but I am attempting to show that everything needs to come together as a system, before you can view Blu-ray movies in high-definition.

1) An HDCP capable TV or Monitor with a DVI or HDMI connection. Your TV has HDMI connections and it is newer, so it should work. Model number of your TV?

2) An HDMI cable. I believe you have this as well. If you get the dv7-1175nr, it is built-in, since it is a laptop. No cable required for PCs with built-in displays.

3) A Blu-ray disc player. You've got that in your PC. m9260f specifications.

4) A Blu-ray compatible software player: You should have that... HP DVD Play HD DVD/BD 2.4. Click Start, and click DVD Play BD at the top of the start menu. You must use this software to play movies in resolutions higher than 480i/p (such as 1024x768 or 1920x1080). If you just want to view the movies without high defition, you should be able to kick your display resolution down to 640x480 from the PC (Windows personalizatio - display resolution)and the message should go away.

5) An Internet connection. Why? To get css keys for your Blu-ray software player so that you can play newer title.This is to help prevent pirating of commercial movies.

If you have all of the above and you still get the message, then I'm stumped too.

I hope I helped and not further confused anyone. The whole Blu-ray/HD DVD thing (and HDTV) can be very confusing for PC users, because of the way the industry has tried to address piracy.

[RickSL]

I don't know if everyones figured this out yet, but I found that if you go to the nvidia control paned you can change your monitor setting to use one monitor and then choose the HD tv as your monitor and it will shut down your other monitor and it will play the disk.

I agree that it's crap that you have to go through so much to use your computer as your bluray player, but that's greed for you. That's one big reason I bought this computer.

To get to the control panel go to display settings-advanced settings-nvidia xxxx tab and on the control panel click on set up multiple monitors.

I' going to try to see if I can set up a short cut to the Nvidia control panel.

[shillyar]

hello,

I also have this exact issue So I take it this issue is realated ONLY to Blu Ray playback ? but normal DVD's will play fine across BOTH dual monitors ? has anyone just tried using a single monitor port and just use a Y cable ? instead of setting up both monitors as clones ? I know this may not help most people but I guess I could live with just a y cable solution as plan B. I'd just try a Y cable but, id hate to waste another 30 bucks on something that may not work.

Thx

[Raylinkz]

If you have truly used the lightscribe feature on your "blu-ray" dvd, then you don't have a true blue ray.  Lightscribe isn't a feature on the blu ray drives.

[BamaBubblehead]

In hopes of some mollification -I'm stoneage- R&D (research and development), Manufacture, Sales, Support and repair are seldom on the same page. So, with the rapid advancement in technology and technical jargon affected across numerous fields, it is difficult for all to be on the same page at the same time. Sorry, patience and perseverance is gotten to be a requisite now days. Thanks to all the experience shown on these support forums we still have to "weed out" what is applicable.

Had to post this even if it's not applicable.

Respectfully,

Bamabubblehead

"Submariners do it deeper."

[2kenta]

et al

I have had the same problem with my Pavilion m9380 connected to a Samsung LE52F96BD. I get a message that it can not playback this material on this unit or something like that. After some browsing on webforums I found that the graphicscard driver should be set to 1080i and not 1080p. Now it works perfect.