So the latest on my adventures to play blu-ray on my laptop. Bought a nice Sony external player, which is very sleek. It came with Cyberlink PowerDVD, but when I fired that up it said my graphics didn't support blu-ray - as suspected by hellsbrink.
Upgraded the graphics driver to the latest version, same problem. Dowloaded Arcsoft as recommended by hellsbrink, and it reads the disk and plays the music you get over the menu, but no picture, so it's obviously also having a problem.
I searched in both of these for an option that says 'read blu-ray disk but playback as normal' - but unsurprisingly couldn't find anything. As I said before, I'm not fussed about the HD playback quality.
So, does anyone know of a product, or a method, that will allow me to read the disk via my snazzy new external player, but not worry about the fact that my graphics can't support HD. (For those who haven't read the whole thread, it's a works laptop so a hardware upgrade is not possible).