Windows Vista Doesn't Like Your Monitor?

[fbrdphreak]

Microsoft has recently announced that the next version of Windows, due out in late 2006, will be named Vista. For all of you who?ve been following the development of Longhorn, this is it (well, it will lack a few of the planned features such as WinFS at launch). You can read the original RealTechNews coverage of the announcement here.

Getting down to business, Microsoft has decided to make Vista even tougher on DRM (Digital Rights Management) in order to prevent piracy. The new DRM ?features? of Windows Vista require that your monitor be compatible with something called Digital Content Protection. When you are trying to play a digital video file of any kind, Vista will check to see whether or not your monitor is HDCP compliant. If it is then you?re fine and everything plays just like you would expect. However, if your monitor is not compliant with HDCP Vista will make the picture fuzzy. The problem with this is that there are currently very, very few monitors that support the standard. In fact, you can be fairly certain that any monitor you have (or are about to buy) does not have this feature. So, if you thought you were going to just upgrade your OS?or even your computer?s internals?you may be sorely disappointed when you find that your digital video files refuse to play without distortion. I?m sure the monitor industry and the MPAA are loving this, but I doubt the consumer will find it quite as appealing.

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1603

I'm sure they won't exclude so many users, but what is this crap?

 

[Nohr]

I'd be suprised if there isn't a hack out before the OS is released.

 

[Gl4di4tor]

OMG are you KIDDING ME!!!?!!!

 

[Rogue]

<cough>BULL$HIT</cough>

I'm here to say, that won't happen, period.

 

[neutralizer]

It's already posted on AT news.

 

[mcvickj]

WTF? If this is true it will be just one more reason to not upgrade. I've yet to see anything that makes me go WOW.

 

[EyeMWing]

Solution:

Don't play DRMed video, and don't use WMP to play DVDs. And if it affects OTHER player software and non-DRM'd video, it seems to me that MS is opening themselves up to lawsuits from both content creators and software developers.

 

[Injury]

Source: The Inquirer

You left out that key detail that matters, because they are only a shade above the tabloids in journalistic integrity.

 

[Leper Messiah]

Yeah right. There is no way MS can do this.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Injury

Source: The Inquirer

You left out that key detail that matters, because they are only a shade above the tabloids in journalistic integrity.

and then half of the time it turns out to be true........

 

This will not be included in Windows Vista. I guarantee it.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Injury

Source: The Inquirer

You left out that key detail that matters, because they are only a shade above the tabloids in journalistic integrity.

Actually, they TEND to be semi-correct most of the time, but exaggerate some bits. Such as the fact that it affects "all" digital video files.

 

[SSP]

Shens.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Well, they sure got the attention of AT!

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

M$ is really stupid doing this. every one must buy new monitors and crap, or whatever.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: jumpr
This will not be included in Windows Vista. I guarantee it.

Quoted for finger-pointing when it does

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: Injury

Source: The Inquirer

You left out that key detail that matters, because they are only a shade above the tabloids in journalistic integrity.

and then half of the time it turns out to be true........

Not sure what you are thinking, but 50/50 odds suck ass.

Would you rather have a 50/50 chance to live through an unesseccary surgery, or a 99.9/.01?

 

[Mucho]

Oh really?

 

[fbrdphreak]

Originally posted by: Injury
Would you rather have a 50/50 chance to live through an unesseccary surgery, or a 99.9/.01?

WTF does that have to do with the topic at hand???

 

[Snapster]

*Yawn* what a load of bollocks. Sounds like another anti-M$ bias article and people 'still' jump on it!

 

[thomsbrain]

and what are those of us with laptops supposed to do?

i just really don't see this happening. besides, all you would need is an updated driver that would claim to windows that it was compatible.

 

[oogabooga]

hrmm.. so what the article is saying is that you'll essentially have to upgrade your OS [which also implies your hardware to run the OS better, buy peripherals to take advantage of some of the neat features] and then buy a new monitor so you can see movies.....

I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt to MS and say it'll either be only for DRM movies (which i think is still retarded) or it's shens.

 

[yllus]

I'm really setting myself up for a case of foot-in-mouth-itis, but this is a moronic scheme that can't possibly be planned. Why in the world would MS or any other company verify your monitor to see if it should be allowed to play content? Common sense programming would mean verifying the file on the disk and that's the end of it.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: yllus
I'm really setting myself up for a case of foot-in-mouth-itis, but this is a moronic scheme that can't possibly be planned. Why in the world would MS or any other company verify your monitor to see if it should be allowed to play content? Common sense programming would mean verifying the file on the disk and that's the end of it.

HDCP is already used in the home theater world.

It's used to prevent people from recording from DVI/HDMI outputs.

Viper GTS

 

[ryan256]

I doubt even M$ has balls this big.