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High-Quality HD Content Can't Easily Be Played by Vista
DaMan1970 writes "Content protection features in Windows Vista from Microsoft are preventing customers from playing high-quality HD audio/video & harming system performance. Vista requires premium content like HD movies to be degraded in quality when it is sent to high-quality outputs, like DVI. Users will see status codes that say 'graphics OPM resolution too high'. There are ways to bypass the Windows Vista protection by encoding the movies using alternative codecs like X264, or DiVX, which are in fact more effective sometimes then Windows own WMV codec. These codecs are quite common on HD video Bittorrent sites, or Newsgroups."
Microsoft has bought a 50mm cannon to blow both feet off.
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
Your public betas of Microsoft Vista gave me an excellent change to try out your new OS and it made me sure that I should upgrade from Windows XP, which I promptly did in January. What you probably didn't know though was that my upgrade path took me to OS X instead of Vista. The beta showed me just how horrible Vista is, just by trying to set a few things up after installing it. The dialogs / wizards were horrible, unusable, and almost worse than randomly created text file formats. It seems, by this article, that my buying decision was the correct one, and I urge all my fellow slashdotters to run an OS, of your choice, that caters to you, the user, and not enterprisy entity with the sole purpose of ripping you off.
For you stuck with Vista, enjoy your games.
That's all for me.
What TFA is yammering about, is that users cannot play their own home movies properly. It seems that a user would need permission from Hollywood to play their own stuff. Oh, well, people can always buy a Mac or use Linux...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
This is complete, easily disproved bullshit. If you get degraded video, it has nothing to do with DRM or Vista downgrading for nefarious purposes, it's a misconfiguration plain and simple. More than likely you run your TFT at low resolution, and then were like "Durr, why is it showing my video at 800x600..durrr".
However, captain nacho and his crew don't seem to listen.
HDCP is required to play HD content. Regular content such as DVDs won't even play over the component or S-Video outputs on video cards.
This is a huge crippling "feature" that MS has thrown in just to appease big media.
They're using their grammar skills there.