Have had a few problems today with my new laptop, basically it is cool for watching DVD's etc, but when i have tried to watch a web cast or some stuff with embedded media player control on a web site the sound wasnt working correctly. Imagine all voices sounding like the smurfs... quite amusing for about 30 seconds then very annoying. I tried upgrading to media player 11 and then i got no sound at all. I google'd for a while and came across a post which said to install a 3rd party codec pack which ......