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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."'"
Time for macosx.
Doesn't macosx already support HD content? It was my impression it did so for quite awhile. Admittingly it has no hddvd or blue ray support yet but video production engineers do use macs for editing hidef content
http://saveie6.com/
Wow. This is a major announcement. I guess they don't want most of the folks who buy Vista to be let down when they purchase it. I guess afterall they aren't copying Mac OS X, since HD playback is built into QuickTime 7.
Well, it's not often that Slashdotter doublespeak hits them in the bum.
Slashdotters want their GPL to be enforceable but then whine when media owners try to enforce their copyrights. The biggest reason that GPL enforcement works is because copyright law exists.
I will grant that it's hard to separate out the hypocrsy from different groups of people posting in the threads they are passionate about.