A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

[Jwoc]

Don't know if this has been posted before, interesting read, considering all the issues.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

[Vapor Trail]

WOW! After reading that I'm definately waiting as long as possible before I switch to Vista. No wonder sound is so screwed up not to mention playing any HD content.

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=1694

Does anyone know if the new 8800 cards really support HDCP because nothing else currently does.

Damn what a mess.

:(

[Remi]

Mine does, or at least that's what the latest Cyberlink BD/HD Advoisor says. Having no DHCP display, I can't really test. Some 7600s also really have HDCP, such as MSI's NX7600GT Diamond Plus. There are a few others, I don't remember the makers and models - a google search probably would find them without too much difficulty.

I have yet to notice any problem in the sound, but I don't have a creative labs card in my PC.

[ViN86]

wow i just read through that. i might be holding off on Vista for a while until the whole unified/open/third party driver thing is figured out :|

[Stoneyguy]

Does anyone know if the new 8800 cards really support HDCP because nothing else currently does.


:(

My x1950 Pro supports HDCP

[Vapor Trail]

My x1950 Pro supports HDCP

Here's HardOCP list of HDCP cards...

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1071342