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[Windows Vista And Music]
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| MoBreakz |
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut0.../vista_cost.txt
This
is a report on the darker side of Windows Vista. Most of you probably
don't want to read through more than 40 pages of stuff, so let me break
it down for you:
"Vista's content protection mechanism only allows protected content to be sent
over interfaces that also have content-protection facilities built in.
Currently the most common high-end audio output interface is S/PDIF
(Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format). Most newer audio cards, for example,
feature TOSlink digital optical output for high-quality sound reproduction,
and even the latest crop of motherboards with integrated audio provide at
least coax (and often optical) digital output. Since S/PDIF doesn't provide
any content protection, Vista requires that it be disabled when playing
protected content [Note E]. In other words if you've sunk a pile of money
into a high-end audio setup fed from an S/PDIF digital output, you won't be
able to use it with protected content.
Say you've just bought Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon", released as a
Super Audio CD (SACD) in its 30th anniversary edition in 2003, and you want to
play it under Vista. Since the S/PDIF link to your amplifier/speakers is
regarded as insecure for playing the SA content, Vista disables it, and you
end up hearing a performance by Marcel Marceau instead of Pink Floyd."
Basically, anything "unrecognized" that the user attempts to transfer over
an "unprotected" interface on Windows Vista--whether it be streaming files across a network or
simply music through an audio cable--will cause the entire system to
clamp down and revoke device privileges, turning a given piece of
hardware into a giant paperweight.
Simply
put, say goodbye to all your third-party applications, indie music, and
everything you've ever downloaded using a peer-to-peer client. :mad: |
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| MoBreakz |
| Basically a lot of the music we have on our hard drives wont be useable on Windows Vista unless it goes through the Windows Vista recognition loophole. And DX10 could have been implemented into Windows XP but they are forcing gamers to buy Windows Vista to play DX10 games. |
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| Blake_Jarrell |
| Google needs to make an OS so I wont feel so violent towards bill gates and steve jobs. |
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| idoru |
| There are plenty of other alternatives. |
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| s3nate |
| What the was Microsoft thinking... |
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| SMC |
| Just stick to XP, it works. |
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| Ben Brown |
| quote: | Originally posted by Blake_Jarrell
Google needs to make an OS so I wont feel so violent towards bill gates and steve jobs. |
one word for you : linux
sucks for audio apps right now though |
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| Blake_Jarrell |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ben Brown
sucks for audio apps right now though |
been you just negated your suggestion |
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| Clovis |
| Ableton needs to make an OS :crazy: |
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| MoBreakz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ariah
i'm gonna fix this little problem of yours:
http://www.ubuntu.com - Linux for human beings
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I like and respect what Linux is doin but its not as intuitive as I would like yet, hopefully it evolves in the next couple years. I think I might have to go with Apple Mac OS for my next computer,Macs are also good for music production so Ill be right home there. I was hoping Vista wouldnt screw us over like this. I can give up the video gaming on the pc side of things by getting a Playstation3 since MacOS is a no go there. |
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