Vista Prevents Users Playing High-Def Content

Content protection features in Windows Vista are preventing customers from playing high-quality video and audio and harming system performance, even as Microsoft neglects security programs that could protect users. Gutmann's paper called Vista's content protection rules "the longest suicide note in history."

Shamelessly pandering to the Big Media copyright holders, Vista automatically degrades so-called "premium" content such as high definition movies and audio tracks when they are output to less than bleeding-edge new devices that don't happen to support Intel's High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) DRM scheme

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