Tuesday, August 29, 2006
All Versions of Vista Are Capable of HD Content Playback
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 12:34 PM
"The community is buzzing with reactions to APC Magazine’s article regarding playback of protected High Definition content in 32-bit versions of Windows Vista. However, the information shared was incorrect and the reactions pervading the community are thus (understandably) ill-informed. The real deal is that no version of Windows Vista will make a determination as to whether any given piece of content should play back or not. The individual ISV providing the playback solutions will choose whether the playback environment, including environments that use 32-bit processors, meet the performance requirements for playback of protected High Definition content. So what does that mean? It is up to a particular ISV to determine which environments are suitable for their playback solutions. Not Windows Vista, and not Microsoft."
Much ado about nothing. The reality is that you could say the same thing about XP today - unless a vendor includes an MPEG2 decode, XP can't play DVDs out of the box. No conspiracy, just licensing issues. Vista is going to be exactly the same. Move along, there's nothing to see here...
Much ado about nothing. The reality is that you could say the same thing about XP today - unless a vendor includes an MPEG2 decode, XP can't play DVDs out of the box. No conspiracy, just licensing issues. Vista is going to be exactly the same. Move along, there's nothing to see here...
