Satellite A660-1DZ - Blu-ray HDMI playback through TVe

I've connected the PC to a Philips 42" TV with 1080p capability and HDMI 1.3a control. I selected the TV as the only display device (Fn+F5 function).
The default resolution came up as 1920x1080. DVDs play without problems with the bundled Toshiba player and upscaling on.
I've just bought the OpusArte blu-ray experience disc. It loads it starts to play with the bundled Corel DVD player. Then every 3 or 4 seconds the sound is interrupted - i.e. stops and stars again. Also the sound and vision are out of sync. It's almost as if the sound is being taken off the disc in 'packets' and the joins are audible.
I can't really find any settings to change the audio - it's going through as 2-channel stereo.
If I change the resolution on the TV from 1920x1080 to 1280x720 it plays OK until about two minutes before the end of an item when the sound stops and restarts suddenly.
Playback on the PC without the TV connected is OK.
I don't know what resolution blu-rays are meant to play at, but the picture looks identical at both I've tried.
I've also noticed that the PC uses Intel Graphics all the time despite having an Nvidia card. I bought this particular laptop partly because it had blu-ray and HDMI capability. Also the discrete Nvidia graphics don't seem to be used. I wonder if the processor isn't coping with the video and the audio?
Any help or ideas on this would be very welcome.
Thank you
Message was edited by: eddyad - minor additin to text

> Playback on the PC without the TV connected is OK.
To be honest its hard to say if its just the issue with this special blue-ray disk of with the notebooks software.
I have some blue-ray disks at home and some disk didnt work correctly
So you should definitely test this with another Blue-ray disk
Furthermore I recommend checking the sound driver update but to be honest I think its not software issue since the playback is ok on the internal notebook screen.
Maybe you should also test the different HDMI cables since there are big differences between single cables.

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