According to Cnet Aus, Sony BWU-100A won’t playback commercial Blu-ray movies, but only home made discs.

According to Mr. Vincent Bautista, Sony’s product manager for data storage, there are two major points why Sony’s Blu-ray won’t support commercial movies:

a) Copy protection issues b) Lagging software development

, but only user-recorded high-definition content from a digital camcorder. Mr Bautista calimed that since there are no HDCP-compliant graphics card, that offers DVI or HDMI connections, playback of BD format is not possible. However this is not actually true, since many companies have announced that soon or later, will ship HDMI enabled VGA cards. Such list can be found below, after googling for “VGA HDMI card”:

MSI NX7600GT-VT2D256EHD MSI NX7900GT-VT2D256E-HD Sapphire X1600 Pro HDMI PowerColor X1600 PRO HDMI ASUS EAX1600PRO/I/256MB ASUS EN7600GT/HTDI/256MB

The only available BD playback software (InterVideo’s WinDVD BD) is only offered with Sony’s VAIO VGN-AR18GP notebook (HDMI enabled), that probably hasn’t yet included the latest AACS protection specifications.