The MPAA (if that was who indeed stomped on this) has stomped on innovation and on the pocket-books of people once again.This comes from an interview with Steve Riley when he announced that Windows Vista 32-bit edition will not play any of the next generation high-definition formats.
The people (I assume the MPAA) said that it is too easy to get around the copy protection with 32-bit processors and believes that the only way to protect their content is to use 64-bit processors.
This is bad news for the consumers that have purchased their computers with Intel Pentium and AMD Athlon (and even Sempron) processors thinking that they would just upgrade to Vista 32-bit edition. Now consumers will have to buy a completely new computer. Which begs the question:
How many of us really want and need this next generation format?
Doing this not only means spending money on not just the drive but also a brand new mid-range computer. THIS SUCKS! (unless you like to spend all your money)
Now to clarify, this wasn't Microsoft's fault (however they could have stood up for the consumer a little better) but Microsoft was told that if they want their operating system to run these new mediums of storage they need to use 64-bit technology.
Later, Microsoft released that you will still be able to use the drive as a back-up device but not play any of the movies released by either HD-DVD or BLU-RAY, which kind of defeats the purpose since we can buy external hard drives a heck of a lot cheaper.
Do we really want these new high-definition formats? Or do we just want an easy way to watch content at high quality play-back? IPTV is looking better and better all the time.
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