M$ cripples Vista 32 bit: NO HD PLAYBACK

Terry Stetler · Post by **Terry Stetler** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:50 am

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3922

Microsoft has announced that they have bent to studio pressure and denied users HD playback with Vista 32 bit/32 bit processors. M$ will require everyone wanting to play Blue-ray, HD-DVD etc. to have:

Vista 64
64-bit processor
all drivers must be WHQL certified

BUY, BUY, BUY......get less, less, less

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:33 am

Terry Stetler wrote:http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3922

Microsoft has announced that they have bent to studio pressure and denied users HD playback with Vista 32 bit/32 bit processors. M$ will require everyone wanting to play Blue-ray, HD-DVD etc. to have:

Vista 64
64-bit processor
all drivers must be WHQL certified

BUY, BUY, BUY......get less, less, less

I'd say, get STUFFED, STUFFED, STUFFED, sorry

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:51 pm

I signed up and obtained a copy of the Beta Version.
It took 4 hours to do an upgrade install on one of my spare hard drives containing XP Pro.

I then found half the hardware didn't want to work with it - this is hardware that quite happily works with XP Pro. so it appears we would end up doing what we were forced to do when XP replaced 98 (Forget the white elephant Windows ME) and go out and buy a load of new compatible hardware.

After boot up and waiting for the computer to settle down it was using 500 MB of RAM in its "idle state." which is more RAM than several of my friends have installed - so there is another 'Upgrade.'

I haven't even started with things like processor power, video cards and so on.

Until I am forced to upgrade (Micro$oft recently announced they no longer support Windows 98 ) then I shall be sticking with XP. It does everything that I ask of it.

BrownKnows · Post by **BrownKnows** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:38 pm

Kinda sounds like the MediaStudio Pro upgrade from 7 to 8. Pay (lots) more money to get the product without CG Infinity and Video Paint. Want those? Pay more.

Post by **Ron P.** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:22 pm

If you look at the price of MSP 7 (if I recall it was around $299 upgrade) that had both, and then look at the price of MSP8 $199, I don't really think you are paying more. I think Ulead removed it, giving people the option to have a prosumer product that didn't want or use CG Infinity or Video Paint. For those that do, then just $29 more. In my opinion that's not unrealistic..

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:01 am

That article is full of holes. I wonder if he still has a job with MS.
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M$ cripples Vista 32 bit: NO HD PLAYBACK

M$ cripples Vista 32 bit: NO HD PLAYBACK

Re: M$ cripples Vista 32 bit: NO HD PLAYBACK

Hmmm, sounds familiar