Help needed with Regional Blu Ray Player

[custardtart]

Hi,
I bought my 1st Blu Ray disc from Play.com and went to play it yesterday using the Intervideo Player.

I got an error message telling me that the disc required a region 2 player, what does this mean?

[iafergu17]

Did you buy notebook from abroad?

[custardtart]

no i bought it from a dixons in the departure lounge of gatwick airport so would've thought it would be a uk spec machine?

is that the problem?

[iafergu17]

Region 2 is this region (UK), I'm not the best person to help you with this problem but I had trouble playing back region 1 DVD's as my DVD players firmware wouldn't allow me to without completely changing its region coding - this could only be done a number of times before it was locked on a certain region for good!

I just thought you might have had an import machine as a UK spec 'should' be default region 2 (as you would expect). Have you checked for any updates?

[Blencogo]

Hi custardtart and welcome to Club Vaio.

What model Vaio do you have?

There is an Update for your Blu-Ray optical drive at Vaio-Link (I am assuming you have an AR21S - change the page if not).

There is also an update for WinDVD BD available. Open WinDVD and look in the menus for a software update.

Right-click on your drive in My Computer -> Properties to see what region the drive is set to. It will almost certainly be Region B/2.

Hopefully these will fix your problem.