http://www.osnews.com/story/15621/Microsoft_32Bit_Vista_Will_Play_Protected_HD_Video Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 22 May 2013 20:02:30 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?155767 http://www.osnews.com/thread?155767 "The real deal is that no version of Windows Vista will make a determination as to whether any given piece of content should play back or not."

Sounds mysteriously like a non-answer to me. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Quoth_the_Raven) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?155768 http://www.osnews.com/thread?155768 What about WMP though?
Will WMP play HD at all? If yes, will THAT be 32bit and 64bit or 64bit only?

The old news sounded very suspect to me as I can't see how the OS would prevent ISV's from making players that work in 32bit. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Marcellus) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?155774 http://www.osnews.com/thread?155774 It's all just like Windows 2k/XP with DVD's, the early 3rd Party software used to test your machine to see if it play DVD's before it installed itself (winDVD, etc..) Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (REM2000) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?155781 http://www.osnews.com/thread?155781 http://news.com.com/2061-10794_3-6109427.html


You have to buy PowerDVD or other in order to playback HDDVD, as we do already on WinXP. What's the deal? Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Dias) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?155784 http://www.osnews.com/thread?155784 WMP has had the capability to play HD ever since WMP 9
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo...

The problem will not be the player as there are mnay players that will play HD video. The problem will be if the version of DRM is supported or not. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (twickline) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?155837 http://www.osnews.com/thread?155837 I dont understand. Aren't the videos dloaded from online stores HD? Why such a concern still in the industry about newer DVDs?Edited 2006-08-25 12:43 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bonus) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?155865 http://www.osnews.com/thread?155865 "no version of Windows Vista will make a determination as to whether any given piece of content should play back or not."

So its not going to determine that it won't play some content because I don't happen to have the "digital rights for it?" - Thats What consumers have wanted all along, but I somehow think this guy can't mean what he says.Edited 2006-08-25 13:52 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rcoles) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?155898 http://www.osnews.com/thread?155898 Really? Sounds to me like a pretty categorical kick in the mouth for DRM, to me - if true.

Whether that will extend to Service Pack 1 is anyone's guess, however. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (twenex) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?155900 http://www.osnews.com/thread?155900 Another case of - what you think you are hearing is not what they are saying.

Only if you have the rights will it play - I mean heck XP does crap like that now with downloaded music.
OR
What I actually think is that it won't be intentionally crippled but the ability won't be included either. I mean ogg wasn't crippled either but support wasn't included with wmp either. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deanlinkous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?155914 http://www.osnews.com/thread?155914 No.
What MS is saying is that the OS will not prevent playback of protected hd video discs (HD-DVD and BluRay). But the software player must still deal with the DRM of those protected discs. There's no way to decrypt the protected content without implementing the DRM.

But it doesn't matter if you actually have the disc. Posession of the disc (a genuine disc, not some ISO thing) validates the DRM. Also, HD-DVD (and maybe BluRay) support managed copy, which allows you to copy the disc onto a harddrive and play it from there. But if you try to "share" that copy with somebody else's computer, then the DRM will block that other computer from playing the content.Edited 2006-08-25 16:07 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MollyC) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?155915 http://www.osnews.com/thread?155915 The deal is that the studios may strong-arm PowerDVD into only running on Vista x64. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wes Felter) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?155939 http://www.osnews.com/thread?155939 I'm laughing at the thought of the web actually exploding. I can imagine hordes of WoW players exiting their festering hermit holes and squinting at the natural light. Shortly after, looting and general chaos would ensue. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (setuid_w00t) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?155958 http://www.osnews.com/thread?155958 When he says that Windows Vista will not make any determination he is probably quite correct. Windows Vista is the underlying operating system.

That's almost like saying, Windows XP does not prevent you from playing back illegal movies and illegal music. However, a specific application running on the OS may prevent you from doing it.

Windows Vista will provide better hooks in the drivers so that applications can better determine if you are trying to play back media on unsecured hardware. It is quite possible that, on Vista, a media playback application might refuse to play back HD content if it detects that it is running on a 32 bit platform.

Since it is not Vista making the decision whether or not to play the content he is correct. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dwilz) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?155971 http://www.osnews.com/thread?155971 Could you elaborate on this? I don't remember hearing of such a test. Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rocinante) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?155985 http://www.osnews.com/thread?155985 Doesn't anybody remember reading about all the DRM crap about needing a new video card (which may or may not be fixable by driver update) and a new monitor (of which compatible monitors arent even being made yet Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kryptonianjorel) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?156055 http://www.osnews.com/thread?156055 Yeah, a 64-bit processor is really a small price to pay after you've replaced every other part of your PC. Might as well get all the upgrades out of the way at one time. Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wes Felter) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?156063 http://www.osnews.com/thread?156063 Since I have no interest in getting involved in this silly format war, I could care less how Windows supports blu ray and HD DVD movies. I'll be sticking with DVDs, and I hope the general consumer does too. Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (the__dude) Comments