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."

Re:Wow

[NBarnes]

The beatings will continue until market penetration improves.

Re:XP vs Vista

[Anonymous Coward]

As a guy who skipped XP, and went from Linux and 2000 to Vista Ultimate. Vista kinda kicks ass. Like hard, and relentlessly. I still hate XP. There's goofy CPU hogging stuff you can do, or not do with Vista, Dreamscene comes to mind. I completely do not understand the hatred towards Vista, and I quite frankly don't care. In the interests of full disclosure, I even like the new IE more than Firefox. (To those gathering torches and pitchforks, I have a shotgun in the closet.) Much about the UI is vastly superior. The mac ad crap? After you set things up in about 5 minutes it just doesn't come up unless your installing or configuring new software, if then.

If 2000 is an F-15, Vista is the F-22. Expensive? The New Sexy? Untested, Unproven (maybe). But at the end of the day, it really looks like it's going to dominate. (I did look at a MacBook Pro too, but I didn't really care about weight/thickness and at $1000 more it ended up being not much of a contest.)

Re:Eh

[ipooptoomuch]

"Once the enemy is the user and not the attacker, standard security thinking falls apart." That better?

Vista Retarded is here

[NZheretic]

Getting down with the VCPs to get the DRM message out ... [With deepest apologies to the Black Eyed Peas for the parody of "Let get Retarded"]

Vista Retarded is here
Sung by the V.C.P.s
[voiceover] The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history [auckland.ac.nz].

Vista "Retarded", is here...

And content not playin' playin', not playin' playin',not playin' playin',not playin' playin', not
playin' playin', not playin' playin',not playin' playin',not playin' playin', not...

In this context,Vista disrespects, so when I click to play, the display disconnects.
We got find methods for us to reconnect to new codecs by the network effect.
Bout to lose your fair use. Microsoft's institution. Infect your computer with D.R.M. pollution.
Cause when we click on, the sound is gonna be down. You won't believe how we ow shout out.
Burn can't cause we locked out, Sample can't cause we locked out, act up from north,west, east south.

[Chorus:]
Everybody (ye-a!), everybody (ye-a!), let's get into it (Yea!).
Get stoopid (click on!).
Vista retarded (click on!), Vista retarded (click on!), get retarded.
Vista retarded (ha), Vista retarded is here.
Vista retarded (ha), Vista retarded is here.
Vista retarded (ha), Vista retarded is here.
Yeah.

Lose control, of privacy and goals.
Won't run too fast cause, bloat makes it slow.
Won't get away, your locked into it.
Y'all hear about it, Gutmann'll do it.
Get Vista, be stoopid.
Don't worry 'bout it, Ballmer'll walk you though it,
Step by step, you'll be restricted
Patch by patch with the new solution.
Transmit bits, with D.R.M. pollution
Claim the contents irresistible and that's how they move it.

[Chorus:]
Everybody (ye-a!), everybody (ye-a!), let's get into it (Yea!).
Get stoopid (click on!).
Vista retarded (click on!), Vista retarded (click on!), get retarded.
Vista retarded (ha), Vista retarded is here.
Vista retarded (ha), Vista retarded is here.
Vista retarded (ha), Vista retarded is here.
Yeah.

Playin' playin', not playin' playin',not playin' playin',not playin' playin', not...

C'mon y'all, let's get Do-do! (uh huh)-- Let's get Do-do! (in here)
Right now get Do-do! (uh huh)-- Let's get Do-do! (in here)
Right now get Do-do! (uh huh)-- Let's get Do-do! (in here) Ow, ow, ow!
Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya...

Let's get ill, that's the deal
At the gate, Microsoft restricts your will. (Just)
Lose your mind this is the time,
Y'all test this will, Just and download still. (Just)
Rob the resolution, from your monitor or to your speakers.
Get pixel-ated and suck.
Yo' movies past slow-mo' in another head trip.(So)
Locked in now cannot correct it, so be ig'nant and left apoplectic .

[Chorus:]
(yeah)Everybody, (yeah) everybody, (yeah) get locked into it.
(yeah) Get stupid.
(click on) Get retarded,(click on) get retarded (yeah), get retarded.
Vista retarded (ha), Vista retarded is here.
Vista retarded (ha), Vista retarded is here.
Vista retarded (ha), Vista retarded is here.
Vista retarded (ha), Vista retarded is here.
Whoaoa
Yeah.

You Cukoo! (A-ha!) -- It's Po-Po! (is here)
Be a Fool! (A-ha!)-- M.S. Tool! (be their)
Like Voodoo! (A-ha!) --You cukoo! (out here)
Ow, ow! -- Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya...

Playin' playin', not playin' playin',not playin' playin',not playin' playin'
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Re:Wow

[jez9999]

Vista is merely repsecting the Image Constraint Token of the specs.

That sounds to me like the format has a "make it suck" flag.

It's a lot cheaper than hiring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.

Re:XP vs Vista

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know the ins and outs of games programming, but I can't understand why everyone uses DirectX

Well I do know the ins and outs of games programming, so let me give you an answer: It's easier. By a large margin.

DirectX is a complete and well supported API, and is by far the best solution currently available. I wish there were something comparable in the open source world, but currently there is not. Anyone who says otherwise either hasnt programmed for both, or is just outright lying to suit their agenda.

Re:XP vs Vista

[revengebomber]

If 2000 is an F-15, Vista is the F-22. Expensive? The New Sexy? Untested, Unproven (maybe). But at the end of the day, it really looks like it's going to dominate.

I'll stick with my BSD ornithopter, thank you very much.

Re:You don't have to imagine -- crash

[BBird]

In the case of MS, how would the crash tests rate? (vs. the clone)?

Re:A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protec

[crashelite]

come on give them some credit... they are releasing the super duper deluxe premium ultimate edition soon that will rectify this issue. of course it wont be available till SP2

Re:Wow

[MrNaz]

Yea, they can even show you the silhouettes of the people in the cinema watching it at the Chinese premiere! Now *that's* a feature!

Re:Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Please, leave punctuation, to, the experts.

HTH, HAND

Re:Wow

[MrNaz]

Aah the good old 404 counter argument :P

In all seriousness though, while MS may get its way in many cases when dealing with media producers, it's mainly due to the fact that MS's agenda is aligned with the media producers' agenda. Were there a conflict, I have no doubt that Hollywood would get the upper hand, as they have a far more balanced and controllable position of political and economic power, compared to MS's raw, untrained brute force.

In any case, the "would Hollywood beat MS in a fight" discussion feels very much like a "would Mighty Mouse beat Superman in a fight" argument.

Cheers.