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    DVD player for the Vaio SZ

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by jyavenard, Dec 1, 2006.

  1. jyavenard

    jyavenard Notebook Consultant

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    Hi

    After my hard drive died on my SZ160, I replaced the fujitsu 80GB drive with a Western Digital Scorpio 120GB. It's a real nice drive btw, it's lighter than the fujitsu and is dead quiet I can barely hear it.. much more quiet than the fujitsu.

    Anyhow, I made the unfortunate discovery that the 2 restore DVDs I had burnt a few months ago are damage and can't be used. Luckily I had made a copy of all drivers as described in a thread earlier on how to install a clean copy of Windows XP.

    Now I have everything working, but no DVD player. Where can I find the Sony DVD player that comes pre-loaded with the Sony Vaio SZ series ?

    Thank you
    Jean-Yves
     
    jyavenard, Dec 1, 2006
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    I don't know about the Sony player, but VideoLan is free and works quite well.
     
    ZaZ, Dec 1, 2006
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    jyavenard Notebook Consultant

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    There are a few DVDs that do not play in VLC unfortunately (like Law & Order), the reason being it doesn't play DVDs in the official manner (using keys), so if a DVD is checking the DVD player you're using: it won't play
     
    jyavenard, Dec 1, 2006
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