Will your monitor work with Vista?
If you spend a month’s salary on a top-of-range computer display or HDTV you may be disappointed when playing high-def DVDs on a Windows Vista PC.
According to PCWorld :
“Vista, the next version of Windows that’s slated to appear in about a year, will feature a new systemwide content protection scheme called PVP-OPM (Protected Video Path Output Protection Management). This downgrades video resolution or blocks the picture entirely if the connected display doesn’t support content protection. If your monitor doesn’t work with PVP-OPM, all you’ll likely see is either a fuzzy rendition of your high-def flick or Hollywood’s version of the Blue Screen of Death–a message warning you that the display has been ‘revoked’.”
It seems that all the good intentions of PVP-OPM will be to no avail since it will also “shut out plenty of law-abiding video watchers whose current displays aren’t future-proof.”
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3 opinions for Will your monitor work with Vista?
Andy Merrett
Oct 12, 2005 at 12:51 pm
So how many of the millions of monitors do support this technology? How many new ones do? How stable or established is the technology? Do Vista users end up with either an unusable monitor or an unusable section of their OS?
Do Microshaft (sorry, Microsoft) have some deal with monitor manufacturers?
I know Apple have been criticised for their DRM implementation a la iTunes/iPod etc., but that’s nothing compared to this.
I’m so glad I’m not going to be even at the other end of a very long bargepole to Vista.
John
Oct 12, 2005 at 12:56 pm
You’ll need some new technology, Andy, that’s for sure. Or else make do with a “Classic” UI. But a lot of the bugs will be sorted out by November 2006.
Geoff
Oct 14, 2005 at 5:38 am
Ridiculous. Is it going to be something like HDCP, or will it be proprietary?
Yet another reason why not to use Windows: They assume you’re a crook before you’ve even bought their product.
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