Hi there,

Bought a new HP dv7 laptop with Bluray player and running HP mediasmart with the intention of watching bluray dvds thru laptop on my LG plasma TV via HDMI... The laptop plays the bluray dvds fine but when i connect to TV via HDMI (to HDMI on laptop) I get an Information message in Mediasmart which says "The content is protected. The content is not ALLOWED to play in the CURRENT display mode."

I've downloaded all updates and even changed DVD regions all to no avail... Please help?

Adam. Ok, both your monitor and your graphics card in your system needs to be HDCP capable.

HDCP is short for High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection. It is the high definition/blueray equivalent of the DRM protection they put into mp3 or other audio for piracy protection.

Your laptop monitor AND your graphics card in the laptop is HDCP capable, which means blueray playing on laptop is fine, however to get the laptop to play the blueray video with your HD TV and your digital video, your TV and the connection to your TV must be HDCP-capable.

Probably your TV is not HDCP capable , hence you can't play the bleray dvd using your tv as the monitor. But DOUBLE check me on that because I don't know what model of TV you have.

If that is the case, then only way around it is to get a new TV that is hdcp capable, OR get the AnyDVD HD software that will allow you to bypass the HDCP protection.

But, piracy is not recommended Hi,

Thanks for your swift reply!

In the manuel it says my TV (LG 42PX4DV-AA) does support HDCP protocol (480p, 576p,720p,1080i).

Hope this helps? Adam.See if the information on this link helps.

It's HP's page regarding your error and it says to TRY attempting to lower your monitor (which in your case is your tv) to lower than 480p.

I am thinking now that perhaps the resolution on your TV and laptop don't match so it's giving an error, but give that at shot.