Fantastic 4 Rise of Silver Surfer

[derrickpetr]

I am having problems playing "Fantastic 4 - Rise of Silver Surfer" on an XL302 using WinDVD for BD with updated version 8.0.08.123. It stutters then crashes after about 3 mins.

Older Blu-ray disk like Casino Royal and regular DVD's are fine

I also have latest Nvidia graphics driver (7.15.10.9813) from vaio support installed

I do know this Fox disk uses the new encryption BD+

Any Suggestions?

[derrickpetr]

Found this on Sony Support site

When Playback is not smooth: audio and video freeze or skip sometimes.

Depending on the hardware specifications of your VAIO, you may experience sound interruptions and/or dropped frames when playing BD title encoded in VC1 or H.264 with very high bit rates.

This problem may be noticed on models that play BD through software decoding (VGN-AR11S/VGN-AR11SR/VGN-AR21S/VGN-AR21SR/VGC-RC204/VGC-RM1N/VGX-XL202/VGX-XL302.)

See - http://support.vaio.sony.co.uk/knowledge/kb.asp?site=voe_en_GB_cons&kb_link=http://kb.sony-europe.co...

So seems like Sony's -Top of the range Blu-ray Media Centre (VGX-XL302) is not up to the job of playing latest Blu-ray titles?

It's still under warranty - Need to contact customer refunds?