This is getting rediculous, what next? will you need special EYES with copyprotection tech that makes everyone else who didn't buy the movie see nothing and not letting you see any movie that someone else bought built into them to watch a simple movie?
Microsoft Vista means you need new monitors
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Luckily, most users are not stuck with this - I suspect the harder they push, the less of the market they will have a chokehold on.
I note that I can now play 30-40% of my windows only games on Linux as a good sign, though that number is hardly sufficient at the moment to do a total switchover.
Honestly, though - I suspect this article is false, surely Microsoft hasn't gone quite so far yet. If they did... well, I don't intend to pick one of these up, so I may be out the loop for a week until it's cracked.
I note that I can now play 30-40% of my windows only games on Linux as a good sign, though that number is hardly sufficient at the moment to do a total switchover.
Honestly, though - I suspect this article is false, surely Microsoft hasn't gone quite so far yet. If they did... well, I don't intend to pick one of these up, so I may be out the loop for a week until it's cracked.
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im with boltzman. like everything windows related, they will always have workarounds. windows vista really dosent look that great.
I never believe anything on the Inquirer...they are as bad as FOX News 
But I am not suprised about something like this...expecially coming from microsoft
Even if this is true, it probably only applies to the standard codecs that Vista will come with. Something tells me that there will be a 3rd party codec that bypasses the protected media check and plays the video normally
I really wish I didn't have to use Windows..... :/
But I am not suprised about something like this...expecially coming from microsoftEven if this is true, it probably only applies to the standard codecs that Vista will come with. Something tells me that there will be a 3rd party codec that bypasses the protected media check and plays the video normally
I really wish I didn't have to use Windows..... :/
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I smell a BS article.
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I smell great!
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Well, this is not crap. In no aspect. In fact MS really puts efforts into those protected paths, because they (and MPAA) want to prevent a disaster similar to the DVD encryption. There has been a good article about it in a computer magazine giving a nice overview about how the technology will work (get some M$ footage here). They are planning to make those HD videos only hi-res playable on DVI devices with a TPM chip. Normal VGA and TV devices will only get a downsampled picture, unprotected DVI devices won't see anything. AGP cards won't be supported, because the en/decryption has to happen in real-time making PCIexpress cards necessary.
Fortunately a small company got their hands on a bunch of those TPM chips and sells (pretty expensive) "adaptors" for your unprotected viewing pleasure
Fortunately a small company got their hands on a bunch of those TPM chips and sells (pretty expensive) "adaptors" for your unprotected viewing pleasure
I know this may be a little inaccurate but the original rumor says that future copyprotected DVDs will need special software and "secure" monitors or "secure" TV screens with a "secure DVD player" to watch it at full resolution, I doubt that microsoft will build that into windows vista but the MPAA may do that to thier movies and prehaps the RIAA will do that to thier music CDs
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Could be the plan for the Blue Ray disc. I think I've heard something of it before.
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