Microsoft has been forced to acknowledge that a substantial number of PCs running the new version of its Windows operating system will not be able to play high-quality DVDs. The Vista system will be available to consumers at the end of the month. However, in an interview with The Times, one of its chief architects said that because of anti-piracy protection granted to the Hollywood studios, Vista would not play HD-DVD and Blu-ray Discs on certain PCs.
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Member since:2006-08-14
Member since:2005-08-19
Screw Blu-ray for now. It's too expensive - I think that I'll wait for the prices become comparable with DVD recorders and discs. Almost everyone on the planet can live without blu-ray crap (except greedy people).
As for buying films - there are tons of cheap older movies in the malls (for example ~3.5$ to 10$ in Poland per DVD or VideoCD box).
Member since:2005-11-09
Just maybe this will encourage people not to buy the drm laden crap Hollywood seems insistent on peddling in the first place.
The average customer will think of HDCP as something they need in order to play HD content. Sales personel is going to convince them this is a "required technology". Virtually none of the customers will realize that this is related to digital rights management -- unfortunately.
Edited 2007-01-09 15:24
Member since:2006-07-16
"The average customer will think of HDCP as something they need in order to play HD content. Sales personel is going to convince them this is a "required technology". Virtually none of the customers will realize that this is related to digital rights management -- unfortunately."
It's really sad and more than a little disturbing how many people these days just accept what they read and what people tell them as absolute truth. Especially when it comes to media sound bites. Can we not think for ourselves anymore; ask questions or do research? People actually think that when they finish school they don't have anything left to learn. We're living in a land of lemmings. People who are easy to sway and control.
Member since:2006-09-30
> Sales personel is going to convince them this is a "required technology".
That's a really nasty play on the semantics...
It's not required as in "needed" technically. It's more "mandatory" because they want it so. That's what is the twist ppl need to understand to be freed from it.
It's really some kind of FUD in the end.
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2005-07-06
Just maybe this will encourage people not to buy the drm laden crap Hollywood seems insistent on peddling in the first place.
Edited 2007-01-09 15:03