HD DVD on my HP dv9260nr - not that easy!

Hi all this is my first post here but I thought I would see if anybody had also had these problems with HD DVD. Sorry its a but long I just had to vent my frustrations about HD DVD and HDMI on a laptop.

So I bought my dv9260nr about 3 months ago, I wanted a laptop with a HDDVD so that I could plug it into my plasma and watch them at high def. So this laptop seemed ideal with its HD DVD and HDMI connection.

When I first got the laptop I tested the HD DVD on the laptop screen as I did not have a HDMI monitor, i played Babel which came free when I bought it. All seemed well, I don't have the HD screen on the laptop but it looked fine.

So on Monday my new plasma finally arrived (Samsung 5084) and I got down to trying to sort out all my connections.

I plugged the laptop into my AVR (Onyko 605) and switched it to the TV, I got a picture excellent I thought, but when I looked a lot of the top and left hand side of the screen was missing....

Damn I thought; then started looking in the forums and found that I had what I thought was an overscan problem. So I then downloaded Pstrip and started to play with that but no help.

Then I suddenly realized I was being an idiot as I had not set the picture size on the TV, it has 16:9 4:3 WIDE and Just Scan. Once I switched the TV to Just Scan got a full screen

So then I tried playing a HDDVD, naively I thought it would be that easy...first I got the HDCP error which is the HDMI protection saying I cannot play a HD DVD over HDMI .

So after some more forum searching I end up downloading anydvdHD which removes the HDCP protection, excellent...progress at last becasue now I can actually play the DVD.

I was playing the DVD in HP quick Play as I did not have anything else on the laptop that could play HD DVD but it was really choppy and stuttering a lot on the plasma

So then I end up downloading a copy of PowerDVD Ultra as I think it is my player that has a problem. So I try to play Babel again but now when I fire up the actual film part of the DVD it is flashing green every second... The titles play fine but the film is all screwed up.

So now I am really getting annoyed, I think it is my video driver which is a NVIDIA geForce Go 7600 so I go off hunting for that...can I find it NO!!!.

I eventually after an hours searching find a french site that claims to have it, so I download and install it and try and fire up PowerDVD....wait for it....as soon as I try and play the HD DVD it blue screens I try this 3 times to make sure it is really a problem and each time it blue screens.

I end up backing out the driver and that at least lets me play the DVD albeit with green flashes.

I end up trying the only other HDDVD I have 300 and that works absolutely fine on my Plasma so I have no idea what is wrong with Babel.

Before I started messing around at least it played in HP Quick Play with no green flashes, now it has the green flashes...???

So tonight I will try and watch 300 and see if there are any problems, it was too late last night by the time I had tried everything to watcha DVD i just went to bed!

 

I have been having the same issue. I have also recorded some video using windows media with the digital cable tuner. Even this playback is choppy through the HDMI port. What a wast of money if we can not use this laptop on our plasmas. And just for your notes, my plasma is a Pioneer. I have not tried to install Any DVD on this machine. I keep checking but let me know if you find anything.

 

AnyDVD is pretty good, it removes all the protection of the HDDVD (for backup purposes of course that includes the HDCP stuff which meant I could play the HDDVD through my Plasma.

I have been reading up on the forums and it sems there is a problem with PowerDVDHD and Mpeg4 HDDVDs like Babel. 300 is not Mpeg4 and plays fine but Babel is still coming up in green flashes.

I bought my laptop so I could play HDDVD through my Plasma, I thought it would be a simple case of plugin the HDMI and off you go, I even bought an Onyko 605 with the HDMI switching to make things easier. At this point in time I am thinking I wasted money paying the extra for the HDDVD in my laptop and should have just bought a stand alone player....

Anyone else having problems like this?

 

SOMEONE HELP ME! I replied to this post because its the only thing I've found even remotely similar to my problem. I just bought the DV9260NR with the HD DVD drive and I cant get it to work. My boyfriend is the compu-wiz and he's been searching all over the internet and updating drivers, looking for support and nothing! I can get regular DVDs to play but not HD DVDs. Does anyone know why? Am I missing a step somewhere?