Blue Ray Problems

[weathers23]

I bought an AR21s laptop over 3 months ago with the prospect of enjoying the new Blu Ray technology. Well in a nut shell with the few updates and fixes provided on the site a complete re boot and endless searching for patches all sony can come up with is a security patch. Well that would be great if the drive would play blu ray dvd's without stuttering. It is clearly conflict or incompatibility with the software provided. There have been a number of complaints and what are Sony doing to develop a patch to cure this problem. Looks like i will be sending it back. Very annoyed.

[raymundka]

I have a VAIO AR-11S. It came with Windows MCE 2005 and I have now Vista Home Premium too as a 2nd OS. I have installed all drivers and utilities for both OS including nVidia driver and WinDVD BD updates. Running XP MCE I can play back BD's using the updated WinDVD software that came with the notebook but when I want to watch it on my full HD Toshiba LCD TV the playback is tearing.I have installed the KB835221 hotfix, the nVidia driver update and the WinDVD update (ITAOTH-01205605-UN)but no change, playback stops all the time.
My VISTA is a clean install and I have found the WinDVD BD for Vaio Vista Upgrade among the
downloads for AR21S (for a mysterious reason Sony does not include it for AR11S downloads)
and installed it. It plays DVD-s fine and Vista autoplay offers it for BD playback too but
when I insert a blue-ray disk I get the "MEDIA NOT SUPPORTED" ERROR MESSAGE.
How come a BD playing software doesn't support blue-ray disks?
If anyone knows how to make playback continuous (OS:XP) or possible at all (VISTA)
PLEASE WRITE!

[chefchaudart]

Just to mention my own experience

I finally get Casino Royal, I watched this movie without any problem, what a great experience ! thanks Sony.