Problem playing St Trinians Blu-Ray on PS3 with 16:10 Monitor

[Bassman]

My 24" Dell Monitor will only play up to 1080i and being a PC monitor is 16:10 aspect ratio.

I started to play the "St Trinians" Blu-Ray and the menu screen comes up fine (720p I presume, with black lines top and bottom to give the correct aspect ratio). I start the film and it does not play in 720p. The picture fills the screen top to bottom and is standard 4:3 (black borders either side) as far as the width is concerned so I assume it is 576p or whatever. Does anyone know if this movie is actually held on the disk in 720p format or is it just 1080p. I did try 1080i but had the same result. I have had no problems with any other Blu-Ray on my PS3 playing at 720p.

Needless to say I am less than impressed at the moment. If I could contact Entertainment in Video (they release it) I would, but I can find no way to contact them as there is inevitably no contct information on the Blu-Ray case and I can find no immediate reference to them on the Internet.

Does anyone have any ideas?

[JamesBelsey]

Could be using the image constraint token (ICT). Is your monitor HDCP compliant? If it is - it shouldn't be the ICT, but if it isn't this allows for the image to be downscaled to SD resolution for non-HDCP monitors. The ICT is optional on Blu-Ray and I don't think there are many titles that use it, which may be why you haven't seen it before.

[Bassman]

Thanks. The monitor does not have HDCP. THis could be a problem with any future Blu-Ray purchase then. Being non-HDCP meant I couldn't use an HDMI-DVI converter so I had to use Component. I presume there is no way around this?

[Salsa Party Animal]

You might want to find some software that remove HDMI coding protection. Not sure how good it is.

[JamesBelsey]

There are boxes available that take an HDMI input that has HDCP and output DVI/Component/HDMI etc. with the HDCP removed. Last time I looked they were fairly expensive though.

[Lyris]

Yep, I.C.T. is the problem here, I believe EIV are the only people actually using it. You can buy a "naughty box" but the price is around 80 pounds if I remember rightly.

You may also want to call them and remind them that this behaviour is cock-like but I think they keep their contact details hidden from view.

[Bassman]

I wish I'd known about it before buying the movie. I have friends with "proper" HD TV's so I ought to be able to see it properly at some point.

[Salsa Party Animal]

I can't even import this film as there is no region A version of this film. Is it any good.