Windows Vista + Anything=B.S.

This is going to be a very big year for our rights as home pc users. DMCA Digital Millenium Copyright is coming to our PC hardware and software. See that nice new monitor you have. If you want your games movies to display in HD with your HD drive and you do not get a PVP-OPM supported monitor you will not have HD under Windows Vista. PVP-OPM: Protected Video Path Output Protection Management. Downgrades video resolution or blocks the picture entirely if the connected display doesn't support content protection. The days of making a backup of your movies are over with the new system PVP-UAB: Protected Video Path User-Accessible Bus. Encrypts video content as it passes over the PCI Express bus from the high-def disc to prevent other PCI Express devices from intercepting the video stream.Think you could avoid this expense by sticking with XP? No such luck. To see HD, you'll have to upgrade to Windows Vista as well; Windows XP's security and driver models lack the ability to support HDCP. Consumers intent on viewing HD discs via their PCs will have little choice but to spring for the new operating system in addition to an HDCP-compliant monitor.


HDCP: High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection. Intel's content protection scheme for digital displays, not supported by most currently available PC monitors.

Now this is not stopping on your PC . Have your heard that all TV will have to be digital by 2009. Do you know why???? HDCP and DMCA. Want to record a movie it will have to pass HDCP and ect. I am suprised that PS3 blu-ray is getting away with passing the DMCA or do we know that part yet. I have heard rumor that the blu-ray movies on your PS3 will be automatically downgraded on analog.Hollywood wins again. Want to record 1080i HD signals? Well, screw you! Hollywood has negotiated a deal whereby hardware manufacturers are required to down-convert the analog output in next gen players. "analog signal must be down-converted from the full 1920x1080 lines of resolution the players are capable of outputting to 960x540 lines". So we will not see the full next gen hd movies in our home till our sets our digital and DMCA capable. Do you see how scary this is getting. I felt I had to give my 2 cents after this Halo 2 announcement by microsoft and I totally agree with Lord Natas on his comment about it. We are losing freedoms every day in this country and no one is bitching about it. Why? I am scared of the future of this country if this continues on this path. I have a friend for along time that since 1988 does not use credit cards,do rebates,sign up for anything on the net,not get grocery discount cards and anything that would give out his info because big brother is watching. Me and the guys would laugh at him about this. I'm not laughing anymore!

Later fellow Americans

DeathofU or maybe DeathofUS

HEY THIS IS LORD NATAS WITH A COMMENT TO ADD:

In case people don't know Hollywood has been losing their ass for years and they can't afford us Americans to just see the movies at home. A perfect example was when DeathofU and I went to watch the Doom movie and there was a kid that couldn't of been more than 2 years old crying through the whole movie!! Why sit at a movie theater when my home theater system blows the hell out of any theater out there? The video game industry is taking over just like downloading the music is taking it to the record labels! The movie industry is in panic mode and no one can stop the "wind of Change"!!

until next time..

LORD NATAS