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They're removing that? I doubt it, lol, it's the smartest thing they've done in years.
Caged said:
well yeah i wouldn't be asking the question if i didn't know. i believe the term stands for digital rights management and it clearly shows on the quality of my movies. i've read about it thoroughly on wikipedia and btw i saw this article here and thought microsoft should do same for vista
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38783
I'm using Vista Ultimate on my machine, and just can't go back to XP Professional, as I just love the way Vista orginizes things. The UI is also pretty cool. I have XP pro on the machine for the odd program that wont work yet or game. 
From what you're saying, you clearly don't understand what it is.sajtion said:
DRM is applied to the content, not the operating system. Without a media player that supports the DRM mechanisms used in the content, the content will just not play - or in terms of HD-DVD/BluRay it will just refuse to play in HD.
If you want to play this same content on XP, you will need DRM-compatible software too.
All that is built into vista is 'support' for it - if the content requires it, the software can tap into parts of the OS to enforce it.
It will not have any affect on the quality of your movies - unless you have an HD-DVD with HDCP on and an incompatible player - which is unlikely as, to my knowledge, there aren't any.
Most of the stuff spread about Vista's DRM is just FUD:
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/w...-protection-twenty-questions-and-answers.aspx
So you don't want to be able to play HD-DVD or Blu-Ray (or DVD for that matter, seeing as that uses CSS), or buy non-EMI music from a music store? Or play any games which use copy protection any more advanced than a simple CD check?sajtion said:
Sounds like a good deal to me. How does it show on the quality of your movies?
sajtion said:
All that article talks about is selling DRM-free music over the internet. You can walk into any HMV right now and purchase DRM-free music that will play on any platform, ipod, zune, vista. They are called audio CD's.
You have never been able to watch a commercial film at home without DRM in some form or other, unless it was pirated in some way. Even the old VHS/Betamax cassettes had a form of DRM, except for the fact it was analogue, in the form of macrovision protection. I'm not too sure if the old Philips equivalent (double sided cassettes!!) had similar restrictions, but I assume it did.