Vista Prevents Users Playing High-Def Content

[Major Tom]

Another Vista feature!

Vista requires premium content like high-definition movies to be degraded in quality when sent to high-quality outputs.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135814/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws

[Seba]

Oh boy, I just wanna get Vista now!


(Actually I have two uninstalled copies :/)

[Hellstorm]

Good....send me a vista key then. I could use another.

(as if there are not any problems with XP still...)

[Major Tom]

Here ya go!

[Mattc0m]

Vista is still at least a year off before it's worth it's weight. Let these stupid oversights come to light, let the consumer outrage dwell (even most of them probably don't even have Vista), and then let Microsoft do something about it.

[Seba]

I'm currently waiting on another gig of ram, and possibly more reason to switch to vista, before I actually do it.

Also Hellstorm, not that I don't mind giving you a key, but If I was ever caught I could get kicked out of my Off-Campus program, and I don't want that happening.

[Major Tom]

Another Vista feature!

Vista requires premium content like high-definition movies to be degraded in quality when sent to high-quality outputs.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135814/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws

A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/p ... _cost.html

The same issue that affects graphics cards also goes for high-resolution LCD monitors. One of the big news items at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2007), the world's premier event for consumer high-tech, was Samsung's 1920×1200 HD-capable 27″ LCD monitor, the Syncmaster 275T, released at a time when everyone else was still shipping 24″ or 25″ monitors as their high-end product [Note F]. The only problem with this amazing HD monitor is that Vista won't display HD content on it because it doesn't consider any of its many input connectors (DVI-D, 15-pin D-Sub, S-Video, and component video, but no HDMI with HDCP) secure enough. So you can do almost anything with this HD monitor except view HD content on it.