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Thanks for the article - gave me a good laugh

Christine Tham

In Reply to: Microsoft Vista - coding from the dark side posted by cornfeded on January 8, 2007 at 12:36:32:

This comment was a real howler:
*** it's no longer possible to create one-size-fits-all
drivers for an entire range of devices like the current
Catalyst/Detonator/ForceWare drivers. ***
Someone obviously forgot to tell ATI and NVidia, because NVidia has released production versions of Vista x32 and x64 Forceware unified drivers on January 4, and ATI's unified driver is in beta test. Realtek has also released production unified audio drivers.
I suspect this article was written a while ago (despite the Jan 4 last updated date). The author poses a question:
*** Has anyone actually been able to *play* HD-DVD or Blu-Ray content
(i.e. the material that Vista classes as premium content) under Windows? If
so, what HD drive, player software, graphics card, and monitor did you use? ***
Cyberlink released PowerDVD Ultra a few weeks ago, which allow HD-DVD and Blu-Ray playback on both XP and Vista, and lots of users are reporting no issues with playback (using the Xbox 360 HDDVD drive). LG has announced at CES a PC drive that supports both BluRay and HDDVD playback (but it only burns BluRay so it's not quite the ultimate universal optical drive).
Anyway, by coincidence, Microsoft sent me nice email yesterday announcing they have just shipped Vista to me (via MSDN) so I'll look forward to Vista disabling my SP/DIF output when I play the DSTOM SACD and turning my non HDCP graphics card into a "brick." Someone, I don't think that will happen, but hey I'm prepared to be surprised.

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Topic - Microsoft Vista - coding from the dark side - cornfeded 12:36:32 01/08/07 (8)

Microsoft responds - cornfeded 11:17:30 01/21/07 (0)

To be fair, read this - Vladimir Dorta 10:12:35 01/09/07 (0)

Thanks for the article - gave me a good laugh - Christine Tham 18:11:20 01/08/07 (3)

Re: Thanks for the article - gave me a good laugh - cornfeded 21:46:40 01/08/07 (2)

Wait for Version 1.1 - Christine Tham 22:01:42 01/08/07 (1)

Golden Rule - should be absolute minimum - Triodeuser 09:20:48 01/09/07 (0)

Microsoft needs to be sued again - Jon L 13:30:08 01/08/07 (0)

thanks so much - tunenut 12:47:23 01/08/07 (0)

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Thanks for the article - gave me a good laugh - Christine Tham 18:11:20 01/08/07 (3)

Re: Thanks for the article - gave me a good laugh - cornfeded 21:46:40 01/08/07 (2)

Wait for Version 1.1 - Christine Tham 22:01:42 01/08/07 (1)

Golden Rule - should be absolute minimum - Triodeuser 09:20:48 01/09/07 (0)

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