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The Clicker: Microsoft's OPM for the masses | |
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| Time: 18:18 EST/23:18 GMT | News Source: *Linked Within Post* | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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With Longhorn, Microsoft will begin pushing opium. Well, technically it’s OPM. However, opium might be a good option for those livid that the video content being sent to their pristine 24-inch Dell LCD monitors is purposefully being “fuzzied” (more on that later). So what is OPM? The successor to Microsoft’s rarely-mentioned COPP (Certified Output Protection Protocol), PVP-OPM (Protected Video Path – Output Protection Management) is the first play in Microsoft’s game plan to ensure that protected content stays protected. PVP-OPM performs two main functions. First, it detects the capabilities of the display devices attached to the computer. For instance, does the DVI LCD monitor that you’re using have HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection)? Second, it manages what, if anything, gets sent to those devices. | ||
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| #1 By 9589 (66.56.135.81) at 7/15/2005 11:01:03 PM |
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Another hate Microsoft article . . .
But, wait! Isn't this the equivalent of running down to the grocery store for a six pack and some sauce for the Barbie, finding the store locked, running back to the house fuming and writing an article about how awful the Schlag or Master lock people are for putting locks on the store? When all the time the limits to copying a DVD for 100,000 of your closest friends is Sony, Viacom, etc. er . . . sorry I got side tracked. . . are those frigging people that run Winn-Dixie, Bi-Lo, Wal-Mart, etc. What's hilarious about the article is that while the author is cautioning everyone from buying that next monitor for their computer because it might assist in the rights of the content provider, the article itself is sorrounded by advertisements for LCD screens. Let's see was that target, guerrilla, or dufus marketing that was being used - back to my MBA primer! |
| #2 By 2459 (69.22.124.157) at 7/16/2005 1:58:09 AM |
| The bottom line is that "Longhorn" will do no more or less than any consumer electronics device that supports formats like HD-DVD/Blue Ray. These formats will require output protection for viewing most content at full resolution. It's either support HDCP or have no premium content on the PC at full resolution. The PC as a media platform falls behind the settop box. |
| #3 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 7/17/2005 1:34:34 PM |
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All I want to do is enjoy the media I paid my own hard-earned money for however I want, whenever I want, wherever I want.
If they can't get that, then screw them. TL |
| #4 By 2332 (66.92.78.18) at 7/17/2005 7:38:45 PM |
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Guys, I don't think you really understand the "choices" being offered.
Companys who wish to provide Hi-Def content to PCs won't want to do it if it gets stolen/copied easily. With a secure copy-protection mechanism, far more companies will be willing to offer content. This will create a large marketplace with lots of competition because it won't be just the big companies that can swallow the piracy loss entering the market. So your choice isn't really between viewing this hi-def content as you wish or viewing it on a secure setup. It's a choice between content or no content. Wouldn't you rather have at least the option of content that you wouldn't normally have? So please, stop crying that Microsoft is out to get you and that they're infringing on some rights you think you have. Since when did the consumer of a service have the right to dictate how the company in question provides the service? You either use the service, or you don't... if it sucks and nobody uses it, the company will change the service or go out of business. Simple as that. Microsoft will be creating MORE opportunities for services and products that can't really exist without their technology. |
| #5 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 7/17/2005 10:47:18 PM |
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sorry: double post
This post was edited by Fritzly on Monday, July 18, 2005 at 08:40. |
| #6 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 7/17/2005 10:49:30 PM |
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Well I think that the point here is different:
We, the consumers can live without buying a DVD for as long as we want; Hollywood companies and their henchmen cannot live one month without sales; simple as that. In the US the best politicians money can get has ruled that it is illegal to make a back-up copy of the DVD you buy here? No problem, buy DVDs in France where laws are geared to allow the Citizens right to protect their investments. This post was edited by Fritzly on Sunday, July 17, 2005 at 22:55. |
| #7 By 2332 (204.9.221.59) at 7/18/2005 1:34:40 PM |
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Companies have little or no interest in preventing you from making a backup copy of a DVD.
What they want to do is prevent you from distributing their content to hundreds or thousands of other people. Unfourtunatly, the only way to currently do that is to try and prevent all copying to begin with. If consumers really don't like this, they can stop buying the product. Otherwise, the minority of people who object to this will just have to suck it up. |
| #8 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 7/18/2005 2:05:38 PM |
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Yeah, take it in the shorts from the large corporations.
It's the American way! TL |
| #9 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 7/18/2005 3:01:10 PM |
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IMO movies are not like music; pirate copies are made in an industrial way. Once they discovered an organization that copied them when shipped from the Studios to the theatres.
Again I am not against DRM in principle but even here Judge Roy Bean and the Far-West era is over. Hollywood cannot be the accuser, the judge and the executioner. |
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