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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3311138" data-attributes="member: 20741">Vista will automatically DEGRADE the visual quality of controlled content that it is used to display and deliberately degrades the signal to make it kinda fuzzy.  Same thing with music.  And Vista will spend a fair number of your dual core CPU cycles making sure that what you just bought won't play properly.It will show a HD-DVD or HDTV program - it just will not do it properly.Ever. It's called protected media path (PMP).This happens even if the system detects that your copy is 100% legitimate. This is an inherent "feature" of Vista. It downsamples and reupsamples the signal being displayed, so that it is lossy and imperfect when displayed or played.The highest level pf plaback quality supported is about 520k pixels per frame (roughly 960x540). That is as good as it gets with Vista.720p, btw, is 1280x720. Vista will simply not play that resolution. My monitor runs at 1680x1050 (21" widescreen) Vista is designed to make sure I can't actually make proper use it for HD-DVD movie playback The DRM inside Vista is intended to protect audio and video so that the quality of the HDTV or movie displayed through Vista is ALWAYS sub-optimal. To get optimal playback, you must buy a dedicated player  instead of a computer. The DRM in use is called "defective by design". The OS has been deliberately crippled so that it does not work with multimedia as it should and otherwise could.How BAD it is crippled ranges between (real f'ugly - Std TV res) and (crappy but not too crappy, 960x540).  This is all part of their PMP "initiative". The amount of how bad it is is controlled by the chip in your video card.  You can't get the better lossy upsample code if your equipment could then be used to copy or circumvent the protected content. Please observe that none of this technology is necessary in the least.  These chips are not decoders like in the old DVD decoder cards in ages past. They will try and pass it off like that but that is NOT what they are. No no no. That ain't it at all.  This is artificial DRM.All of which is designed to prevent people from using their gear to play and copy movies the way they were meant to be seen.Yes. Pick up that jaw. I'm completely serious.Vista DRM was created to protect HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. In a nutshell, this is about protecting Sony's interests - not yours. That's the "feature" you get when you "upgrade" to Vista."Upgrade" away my friend.</blockquote>

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