Text 6910, 90 rader
Skriven 2005-09-04 14:07:14 av Robert Comer (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 6897 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Windows Vista hardware requirements
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From: "Robert Comer" <bobcomer@mindspring.com>

> That's true.  Though I think it is interesting that the MS dude
> specifically mentioned that level of hardware.

That's marketing guy thinking I suppose, it really does run on lesser hardware,
but you don't get the <retch> full experience </retch>       (can
you tell I don't like marketing talk. <g>)

> I'm not convinced the users will be screaming to the hardware vendors,
> "where's my HDCP?".  I think it may be more along the lines of, "where's
> the HD content I purchased?"

I sure ain't screaming for it, but then again, I probably wont be using Vista
as a content delivery platform anytime soon either.  (I probably will be using
it as a general computer OS.)

- Bob Comer



"Mike '/m'" <mike@barkto.com> wrote in message
news:sa4mh11um2uue51jveq4hems00r9k5oau8@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:09:16 -0400, "Robert Comer"
> <bobcomer@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> Any PC would work best on that combo as long as they're 32-bit and have
>> all hardware drivers. <g>
>
>
> That's true.  Though I think it is interesting that the MS dude
> specifically mentioned that level of hardware.
>
> This part of the article is interesting as well...
>
> ===
> Big trouble in little Hollywood
>
> "The horse has really bolted with respect to DVDs. They're out there,
> people cannibalise them all the time with DVD decrypters and people can
> get movies off them like there's no tomorrow.
>
> "The industry needed something much better to deal with the piracy
> problem. Studios said in a high-def world, we're going to have to have a
> very different way of viewing content.
>
> "In Longhorn, the computer determines that a video card is not faked or
> being intercepted, so there's a lot of onus on the writers of the
> drivers. It also checks If there are digital or analogue drivers. If
> only digital outputs are in use, it will then check a display has HDCP
> capability - high bandwidth digital content protection. The
> communication between the video card and the device is encrypted and
> only decrypted by the display device itself. If all that is true, the
> operating system says, "ok, gotcha, we are running on a protected video
> path which is OK for premium content. HD-DVDs, BluRay, or a video file
> that someone has marked."
>
> "If you don't comply with PVP, we're going to downscale the quality upon
> playback. you're going to get a lower quality version; you're not going
> to get the high def content the way it was intended to be viewed. You'll
> find that most plasma displays have HDCP already. But this isn't
> available in computer monitors. I have not been able to find a single
> monitor that supports it. We are going to see a lot of change in this
> space.
>
> "We have more information at Output Content Protection and Windows
> Longhorn
>
> "The hardware vendors all know about it but aren't yet making monitors
> with it built in, so now it's up to you [the users] to say, "where's my
> HDCP?"
>
> "There's a LOT of encryption and decryption going on. We communicate on
> the PCI Express bus in a fully encrypted format because it is considered
> a public bus.
>
> "The downside is that all your existing flat panel monitors and
> projectors aren't going to work with high-def videos in Vista. Bad
> news."
> ===
>
>
> I'm not convinced the users will be screaming to the hardware vendors,
> "where's my HDCP?".  I think it may be more along the lines of, "where's
> the HD content I purchased?"
>
> /m

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