Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 8th Dec 2007 23:09 UTC
"Leading up to next week's public beta-test release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate, Microsoft today has published a 17-page document outlining in fine detail exactly what difference SP1 makes to Vista. Some of the contents has been shared in bits in the past, but this is so far the most comprehensive 'changelog' we've ever seen and probably will see as the final version is not expected to differ much from the RC, with the exception of WGA modifications."
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Member since:2006-06-21
HD is the carrot that's being dangled in your face. It comes with the hidden stick of DRM. They're an item and will not be separated. Sure, there's HD content without DRM, like trailers and game demos. But try getting serious commercial content such as the latest movies in HD format without DRM, see how it goes.
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2006-10-10
Also, if there is no HD optical drive on a machine, and no HDMI output, and no HDCP-compliant monitor ... then why exactly does the OS need to have any DRM component when the machine cannot play HD video anyway? This is another problem that is easily solved by simply having the media player separate from the OS and having the DRM as part of that media player, instead of embedded into the OS.
guess what, connecting the output to a capture device destroys the very purpose of drm (in microsoft's/whatever minds, of course - as they're trying to close every possible way of piracy - or so they think).
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not all HD video is protected. HD only stands for High Definition, so HD video is High Definition video, not DRM-plagued High Definition video.
Some (or most) legitimate professional HD video available are protected but that doesn't mean all HD video are protected...
Edited 2007-12-09 15:08