Text 6897, 63 rader
Skriven 2005-09-04 11:30:10 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 6896 av Robert Comer (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Windows Vista hardware requirements
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From: Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.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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