Vi propongo questo interessante sito dove parlano delle problematiche legate a vista e al suo motore di content protection.
Pare che l'hardware che non supporta questa protezione dei contenuti multimediali renda inutilizzabili i contenuti stessi (non vengono eseguiti).
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut00...ista_cost.html
ah ecco adesso comincio a capire perchè quel nerd era così incazzato...Currently the most common high-end audio output interface is S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format). Most newer audio cards, for example, feature TOSlink digital optical output for high-quality sound reproduction, and even the latest crop of motherboards with integrated audio provide at least coax (and often optical) digital output. Since S/PDIF doesn't provide any content protection, Vista requires that it be disabled when playing protected content [Note E]. In other words if you've sunk a pile of money into a high-end audio setup fed from an S/PDIF digital output, you won't be able to use it with protected content.
miii sempre più incazzetoo!!The same issue that affects graphics cards also goes for high-resolution LCD monitors. One of the big news items at CES 2007 was Samsung's 1920x1200 HD-capable 27" LCD monitor, the Syncmaster 275T, released at a time when everyone else was still shipping 24" or 25" monitors as their high-end product [Note F]. The only problem with this amazing HD monitor is that Vista won't display HD content on it because it doesn't consider any of its many input connectors (DVI-D, 15-pin D-Sub, S- Video, and component video) secure enough. So you can do almost anything with this HD monitor except view HD content on it.
altro che macinarlo nel trita documenti... doveva farlo mangiare a bill gates...In order to appropriately protect content, Vista will probably have to disable any special device features that it can't directly control. For example many sound cards built on C-Media chipsets (which in practice is the vast majority of them) support Steinberg's ASIO (Audio Stream I/O), a digital audio interface that completely bypasses the Windows audio mixer and other audio-related driver software to provide more flexibility and much lower latency than the Windows ones. ASIO support is standard for newer C-Media hardware like the CMI 8788. Since ASIO bypasses Windows' audio handling, it would probably have to be disabled, which is problematic because audiophiles and professional musicians require ASIO support specifically because of its much higher quality than the standard Windows channels (you can get more information on Vista's audio architecture and the changes from XP in this post from Creative Labs).
qui un simpatico contributo per rendere chiaro il discorso, si tratta anche di possibili scenari che potrebbero crearsi nei prossimi anni e della totale negazione della privacy dell'individuo (peraltro già abbondantemente compromessa dalle tecnologie attuali)
questo è uno tra i tanti siti control il tc, in italiano