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No Full HD Playback for 32-bit Vista
snafu109 writes "Pity the Vista user with a 32-bit CPU. Senior Program Manager Steve Riley announced today at Tech.Ed Australia that full HD content shall only be played at the full resolution where only signed drivers are used — only in the 64-bit version of Vista. From the article: '"Any next-generation high definition content will not play in x32 at all," said Riley. "This is a decision that the Media Player folks made because there are just too many ways right now for unsigned kernel mode code [to compromise content protection]. The media companies asked us to do this and said they don't want any of their high definition content to play in x32 at all, because of all of the unsigned malware that runs in kernel mode can get around content protection, so we had to do this."'"
... by the time Vista finally hits store shelves, 32-bit CPUs will be a long forgotten antique.
i guess this the major upgrade MS is talking about!
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
"The media companies asked us to do this ..... so we had to do this."
;-)
Interesting - after all, thats precisely the line Apple uses about the DRM in ITMS songs.
Just another way MS is copying Apple
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
"Media companies are ruining innovation"... by making people embrace 64-bit technology?