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    Sony Vaio FZ: Blue-Ray question!

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Ace Daltron, Mar 8, 2008.

  1. Ace Daltron

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    Hi all,

    I just recently bought a Sony Vaio FZ series notebook. I love this thing and everything seems to work correctly. I added the blue-ray read only drive and was excited to hear I could hook it up to a HDTV through HDMI and enjoy Blue-ray movies. Once I did this and started Spider-man 3 I noticed something right off the bat, It was not clear as I would have expected. I would experience a kind snow fuzzy effect on faces and backgrounds that really took away my hopes. Ive tried pretty much everything but Im sure there has to be something I have missed. If anyone knows anything on how to achieve crystal clear video through HDMI to a HDTV please help me out.
     
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    What video card does your FZ have? Do you notice framerate problems?

    This sounds a bit like a non-HDCP compliant card.

    Greg
     
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    Did you notice this "fuzzy" effect when watching the movie with laptop built in monitor? Did you enable hardware and color acceleration? Did you enable progressive scan?
     
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    I also have an Fz (180e) and for very first time in my life I saw a bluray movie,
    Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End .
    It was simply amazing quality! I was very impressed and no such problems as you mentioned! Make sure you have latest drivers for you graphic card (mine is 8400GT) and also you need latest version of the player you use.
     
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    You will likely need to change your color/contrast settings in the nVidia control panel. Also, you need to be viewing single screen only and manually set your external display to 1920x1080 using the nVidia control panel. It takes some messing around to get it going right, but when it does it looks great.

    As far as the snow look, that's something I've never seen. Is your cable/connection ok?
     
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    These are normally already enabled and there isn't an option to turn any progressive scan on or off.
     
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    I have a 8400gt and Im unsure if i have the latest drivers for it. I don't know where to look so if someone could post links to the player and the srivers that be great.
     
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    no frame rate problem just fuzz.
     
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    I tried this, setting it to one monitor but it still was there. I hooked it up to a sony bravia 40 inch flat panel and it was set to 1080p.
     
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