Watching a blue ray on tv

I can connect my Laptop to my TV with an HDMI cable to view my screen. But when I try to watch a video using the blue ray drive I get a message that it is copy protected. How do I use my Laptop to watch disks via my TV?

While watching blu ray, you need to have display setup on single display only....Multi-Display setup will lead to Content protection error.
Here is a document that will explain this issue in more details... http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01530801&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_US...
Although I am an HP employee, I am speaking for myself and not for HP.
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