Re: Reasons to Buy Microsoft Vista at this time
Re: Reasons to Buy Microsoft Vista at this time
On Jun 16, 2:41 pm, Anteaus <Ante...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Yep, I think it's clear that Microsoft got shafted by Hollywood over this DRM
> deal.
I'm not sure I'd say they got shafted. It looks to me like Ballmer
hoped his DVD-based OS would, with the help of Hollywood, lock
consumers of digital entertainment into his OS forever, and he'd get a
cut on every playback.
To the cost of many thousands of hours of coding work on what could
> have been a great OS, had it been designed with performance instead of DRM as
> the prime consideration.
>
> Still I'm relieved that DRM has been so forcefully rejected by the
> computer-buying public, after all the future of a DRM-laced computer industry
> would have been a bleak one indeed.
>
> On the same subject, we were discussing the issue of whether DVD encryption
> and regionalization
I just recently found out that my Ubuntu system completely and
automatically bypasses region coding. This was quite a PITA for me,
since I have some DVD's bought (legally, I might add) in Europe. I
can't play them on my Mac (haven't tried on a Windows machine but the
issues are the same) because it only allows a maximum of 5 changes of
region (that is, I can't play a mixture of European and US DVDs). On
Ubuntu---no problem!
> > > new audio stack?
> > > You mean of course wasting CPU cycles by encrypting everything coming
> > > from DVD, blue ray, etc?
> > >http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html