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Vista Won't Play With Old DVD Drives

Posted by Zonk on from the taking-their-ball-and-going-home dept.

tlhIngan writes "From a developer's blog, Windows Vista will no longer support DVD-ROM drives that do not handle region coding in hardware (RPC1 drives) - thus preventing playback of DVDs that are region/CSS encoded with those drives. Not a big problem, as RPC1 drives haven't been officially manufactured since 2000 (and Microsoft claims their drives are all broken), but for those with hacked drives (RPC2 with RPC1 firmware), or move the RPC1 drive to new computers, well, no more DVD movies for you!"

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  1. Re:HEY, MODS! LEARN WHAT A TROLL IS!! by Scrameustache · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    A "troll" is someone who intentioally takes the opposite view of yours for no reason than to play "devil's advocate" but in a somewhat hostile manner. The Soviet jokes are old and stale, yes. I wish that people who utter them would die horribly because THEY ARE NO LONGER FUNNY. But they are not trolls.

    The Soviet Russia trolls take the opposite view of yours (i.e. that it is funny) for no reason than to play devil's advocate in a hostile manner.

    And by replying to them, you are feeding the trolls. Do stop.

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