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Longhorn to Require Monitor-Based DRM
Mr_Silver writes "Engadget has an interesting article regarding a new feature in Longhorn entitled PVP-OPM (Protected Video Path - Output Protection Management) which detects the capabilities of the display devices you are using and manages how (and if at all) content is sent to it. In short, this means that if Longhorn detects that your monitor is not "secure" enough, then your premium video content won't play on it until you buy one that is. Who gets to decide? The content providers of course." From the article: "So what will happen when you try to play premium content on your incompatible monitor? If you're "lucky", the content will go through a resolution constrictor. The purpose of this constrictor is to down-sample high-resolution content to below a certain number of pixels. The newly down-sampled content is then blown back up to match the resolution of your monitor. This is much like when you shrink a JPEG and then zoom into it. Much of the clarity is lost. The result is a picture far fuzzier than it need be."
Microsoft is considering the acquisition of an ASCII art company.
This is just the feature I've been waiting for. I wouldn't dream of buying a monitor without this priceless capability.
Daniel
Carpe Diem
Its interesting to see that Microsoft and DRM technology providers are now taking a leaf out of Slashdot's book.
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
My Computer -> Computer
My Documents -> Documents
My Monitor -> Our Monitor!
Seriously, who didn't see this coming?
By the time Longhorn is ready to ship, we won't be using monitors. The images will be beamed directly into our brains!
- AMW
A Longhorn feature that everyone hopes is vaporware!
Another brilliant bit of marketing!
-All that is gold does not glitter - Tolkien
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Wow, I wasn't thinking of buying LongHorn. I mean, all those features they tore out was really kind of a bummer.
But dayamn, I have to have that feature!
Nice to see Microsoft finally give me a positive reason to buy LongHorn. Now I can't wait for LongHorn!
Can Microsoft innovate or what?
The same people who don't know that Macs still exist, that they have choice.
Just wait until the monitor companies start doing reverse checks to see if your computer is 'secure' enough, that your video card drivers are 'secure' enough, that your OS is 'secure' enough.
Then wait for the golden age of technology to crumble, us lower class citizens cast into the darkness of ignorance.
It's time to buy our own fucking island boys. Start printing passports, kiss your loved ones good-bye. Leave the sick and infirmed at home, let them deal with the mess. Just bring enough gear to hold lan parties, and enough guns to hold the corporations at bay.
"i'm sorry sir, you can't afford to remember that movie now... i know you paid to see it at the cinema, what right does that give you to remember it now? you only paid to see it once. after all you are still enjoying the memory of it - you must pay the actors and writers or else they will starve..."
yeah and I never heard Apple and DRM in the same sentence.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
On the up side, it might reduce the amount of picture email forwards.
WHY the hell are we, as consumers, always getting raped by these stupid freaking companies?
Becuase you keep buying their product?
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
Not much to see here, please move along.
--- Hot Shot City is particularly good.
Thats the trouble now-a-days. Nobody cares about apathy any more!
Where do you want to be forced to go today?
"Contrarily the lookaside buffer might not be the panacea... "
Hi. Chandler called, he wants his joke back.
Already happening. Try accessing MSNBC.com's free video content with anything but Windows IE - won't work.
You say that like its a bd thing.
That would be doubleplusgood to you, comrade. I'll be contacting the Thought Police now. Doubleplusungood of you to knock the party, comrade.
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get it right dubass
And then comes the warning: "Do not stare at blocked content with remaining good eye!"
Similar to the upcoming US election results
More like: "Who do you want to be gang raped by, today?"
-- I ignore anonymous replies to my comments and postings.
Yeah, because Apple wouldn't use any of that evil DRM stuff.
Down with Microsoft!!!
Well the jerk store called, and they're running out of you!
doubleplus duh?
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How else are you going to see the good guy voted off the Island then killed by Jack Bauer(tm) in HDTV SUPER++ blue-ray intensity maginification level quadX, DEFCON 5 Aurora Borealis video eXtreme 3.5 D?
I mean, can you _imagine_ living in a world without HIGH DEFINITION ENTERTAINMENT? I mean for God's sake man, you'd have to do something insane.. like pick up a book!
"Yes I'd like a $300 one-way ticket to anywhere but here please."
Could you be any more sarcastic?
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
American stations take these occasional trips to neverland.
Not anymore, since the Michael Jackson trial over...