Global Security Watch > High-quality DVDs will not operate on some Vista PCs

http://www.bambismusings.com [BambisMusings - Musings from a little deer?] Dave Marsh, the lead program manager for video at Microsoft, said that if the PC used a digital connection to link with the monitor or television, then it would require the highest level of content protection, known as HDCP, to play the discs. If it did not have such protection, Vista would shut down the signal, he said.

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http://uksbsguy.com [Uksbsguy.com] David Overton's Blog : June 2006 - Posts: Saw on an internal mail thread that a great webcast on new and improved reliability features of Vista can be found on Kevin's blog - http://blogs.technet.com/kevinremde/archive/2006/06/19/434332.aspx and the webcast itself at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032298849&Culture=en-US Read More...

Digg.comhttp://www.digg.com [Digg.com] digg / Software / Upcoming: The new Yahoo Messenger for Vista will be one of the first commercial application using the WPF, the new 3d graphical subsystem present on Vista. It features a new sleek interface, integrated sidebar gadgets, tabbed conversations (drag a conversation window over another one and they will merge in a tabbed one), voice visualization and much more! More…

http://www.smallcapwatch.com [Smallcapwatch.com] Apple Computer Inc (AAPL) - Company Profile: Schaeffer's Daily Market Blog Features: US Airways, Marsh .AAPL ) iPods and DVDs of the Disney (NYSE: DIS) hit Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead .

http://timsnamelessblog.blogspot.com [Timsnamelessblog.blogspot.com] ~ Tim's ~ Nameless ~ Blog ~ Post-K life in New Orleans: Our comfortable house in Vista Park on the north end of New Orleans is scheduled for termination, probably early next month. We plan to live on site in a FEMA travel trailer while we rebuild, so we hired a plumber to make the sewer and water connections available to us even after the house is knocked down and carted away.

http://politech.wordpress.com [Politech.wordpress.com] Copyright « PoliTech: So when you play an MP3 that has no DRM, your Vista OS will only playback the MP3 with the lowest quality settings. For example an MP3 encoded at 300kb may only playback with 20kb WMA streaming quality.

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