MS Says: 32 bit: NO HD FOR YOU!

[mobrien_12]

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=76


Well MS decides to fuck over the people who actually buy their stuff in favor of big media.

They will only let HD-DVD or BLU-RAY play on 64-bit Vista.  Any 32-bit OS could do it, but, you see, 64 bit vista has DRM built into the driver system, so only signed drivers will run.  Therefore, Hollywood can make sure that only DRM'd drivers are used to play their precious copies of Charlies Angels Full Throttle.

I hope people finally get the message about THe MPAA and MS from this.  Somehow I think they will instead get the message that 64 bit is too weak to handle High Density video, which is CRAP.

There are advantages to 64 bit computing, but the uninformed "64 is bigger than 32, so it's twice as powerful" is complely wrong.  Unless you are dealing with large memory applications (more than several gigabytes), or deal with 64 bit numbers, you only see small improvements.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

I agree. Unfortunately, somehow I think everyone will still rush out in hoardes and buy it like crazy.

And the signed drivers bit is even more awesome. Soon they will have absolut control over your PC and you mind too ... muhahahahaah (ok, maybe just your PC)

[pofnlice]

It will be spun to make it seem like the only true quality HD will be processed through thier chosen formats on a 64 bit processor in Vista. The spin will work, as it always does, to the point and clickers. They just want the computer to work, they don't care how. They want to hear major corporations tell them it's ok to scrap everything they've had for newer, more expensive better. They believe this is a sign that they are being looked after. I think I'll have the pizza please.

[WMD]

Somehow I think they will instead get the message that 64 bit is too weak to handle High Density video, which is CRAP.

"Americans like their bullshit up close where they can get a good, strong whiff of it." -George Carlin

[hm_murdock]

HD sux anyway.

It's just a government-mandated ripoff.

[obob]

haha, yeah, that is true, and i still say that as much as these companies fight for DRM we'll see an eventual flood of lawsuits from the ACLU and other organizations to allow open software and so forth, after the companies try to lock everything down and become anti-competitive

either that, or it'll just be cracked anyways, and they'll finally learn to just say fuckit

[worker201]

If these whores would quit throwing all their money at DRMshit, and start spending it on something that actually benefits technology, humanity, and the state of the art, we might actually have some pretty cool shit available.  Microsoft could make something as cool as George Jetson's spaceship that folded up into a briefcase if they would quit fucking around with Trusted Computing, closed formats, and veri-signed media.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Well, that's just the way things work here. Somehow I doubt it will change within our lifetimes

[GenuineAdvantage]

We can piss and moan but if you know the average joe dumbshit, you would understand. I know quite a few and met even more. They're all the same, for the most part.

[hm_murdock]

Why HD sux.

$1500 for a shitty picture.

[pofnlice]

LMAO!!! I love the artistic expression of the jimmy! Perhaps it's what I've been missing in my life...

[worker201]

Of all the possible problems with television, HD chooses to address the one issue that not one single consumer has ever brought up: resolution.

This mess has been going on since the 80s, when Japan made a bunch of industrial contributions to companies like Sony, Panasonic, JVC, etc, to help them develop HDTV.  They came up with some ideas and some products, but overall, it was an utter failure.  Unfortunately, the FCC decided that a certain amount of the public airwaves would be devoted to HDTV by a certain year.  Now some joker wants to use those airwaves.  The bandwidth devoted to HDTV could hold like 100 radio stations.  If the FCC is going to use everything for shit, we have to start doing things for ourselves, I guess.  Fuck it.  I'm starting an internet TV station.

[Pathos]

who would want to put vista on anything less than an intel or amd 64bit machine.

[pofnlice]

who would want to put vista on anything less than an intel or amd 64bit machine.

Allow me to edit that statement for you...

who would want to put vista on anything

There you go. I'm sure that's what you meant to say. No thanx necessary. Just doing my job.

[worker201]

Q: Who would want to put Vista on anything?

A: American Bastard's wife...