darkangel74
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At what hospital do the doctors watch HD-DVDs as they're making a diagnosis?darkangel74 said:Vista has another playback quality reduction measure. It requires that 'any interface that provides high-quality output degrade the signal quality that passes through it if premium content is present. This is done through a "constrictor" that downgrades the signal to a much lower-quality one, then up-scales it again back to the original spec, but with a significant loss in quality.' If this happens with a medical imaging application then artifacts introduced by the constrictor can 'cause mis-diagnoses and in extreme cases even become life-threatening.'
LstOfTheBrunnenG said:At what hospital do the doctors watch HD-DVDs as they're making a diagnosis?
bbz_Ghost said:<snip>I wonder how many times I (and others as well) will have to keep rebutting such silly things till the point gets across...
What hospital is going to copyright the HDDVD? Do you know what "premium content" is?darkangel74 said:If you have issue then take it up with the author. Sounds to me you a bit blind and sided things one way. I'm just posting the link.
And oh they are now saying HDDVD was not cracked
You might want to edit your first message as saying such, since it seems people here keep bashing you as if you wrote it.darkangel74 said:Again, I'm not the one that wrote the article. If you have questions follow the link I provided and ask the guy that wrote it.
Yeah, but you posted it. Why? So you could start a discussion.darkangel74 said:Again, I'm not the one that wrote the article. If you have questions follow the link I provided and ask the guy that wrote it.
Phoenix86 said:Hmm, not much changed around here, eh?
Hey, BTW, did you write that article?
Yeah, I think you have established MULTIPLE times you are NOT the author. Wanna try one more time? For fun, maybe?
Excuse me for responding to your post. I thought we were supposed to have discussion in a *forum*. Would you rather I agree with everything instead?
I'll tell you what FUD means when you answer my question to you. It's only polite, since I asked first. What hospitals are going to copyright their works? It's kinda an important question given the discussion.
Bandwagon, lol. Grow up. Just because I doubt the author doesn't mean I'm a MS leg-humper.
This post was written by: Phoenix86 (I swear)
Phoenix86 said:Hmm, not much changed around here, eh?
Hey, BTW, did you write that article?
Yeah, I think you have established MULTIPLE times you are NOT the author. Wanna try one more time? For fun, maybe?
Excuse me for responding to your post. I thought we were supposed to have discussion in a *forum*. Would you rather I agree with everything instead?
I'll tell you what FUD means when you answer my question to you. It's only polite, since I asked first. What hospitals are going to copyright their works? It's kinda an important question given the discussion.
Bandwagon, lol. Grow up. Just because I doubt the author doesn't mean I'm a MS leg-humper.
This post was written by: Phoenix86 (I swear)
Finn said:Erm the hospital workers are known to relax listening to mp3 music while operating, for example. The world is so black and white when it comes to !!!!!!esm.
Finn said:Erm the hospital workers are known to relax listening to mp3 music while operating, for example. The world is so black and white when it comes to !!!!!!esm.
You posted an article (that you didn't write!) in a discussion forum. I started to discuss the article you posted (but didn't write!). The text of my post (which you quoted and got all defensive about) was a general rebuttal of something in the article (which you didn't write!), and in no way directed at you.darkangel74 said:Grow up? You're the one coming off like the self righteous little prick not me, Unlike you, I don't know it all. So I can't answer the question. If you want to know ask the author. Just because I posted a news story I saw on digg and you don't agree with it, you jump down my throat and you're telling me to grow up. There are several other points the guy makes but yet you attack one. !!!!!!
bbz_Ghost said:If you want to be honest, then you should point out the fact that, from a legal standpoint, playing mp3 files or even audio CDs in a public place - and believe it or not by definition a public place would include an operating room - is against the law.
So is having a TV in a doctor's office, or playing a movie to people in a blood plasma donation center, etc. It's a public rebroadcast of copyrighted material in all those situations, and against the law, period.
But no one goes after such trivial things... just wanted to point it out.
darkangel74 said:Then every single doctors office is breaking the law by your "law." But yet they still do it?
bbz_Ghost said:It's F.U.D., plain and simple. I've read it three times now and I still don't see any really useful content in it to speak of or spend time debating.
Oh, and to the guy that said those HD "digital xrays" were told they were safe and protected, might wanna tell that nurse and the people she works for that anything can be beaten these days. Probably with a black magic marker...
"Looks like this patient has something left in his chest cavity after that last procedure, Dr. Smith, as noted by this black 'stripe' on the HD digital xray." "Oh my God, that's not something in his chest cavity, that's... they've... curses, HD digital xray encryption, foiled again by a Sharpie!!!"
Going out on a limb there, but the point holds. I do believe HD DVD content was just broken, iirc...
"If there's a will, there's a black magic marker... or something equally as effective..."
When you come here spreading the contents of that article as though they were gospel, why are you so surprised that people who have actually used Vista and know better are daring to disagree with you? Rather than becoming informed about the issue yourself, why do you flame those that disagree with you?Darkangel74 said:And you are? An expert in the field? Its gaining ground about all this. Sure you don't think it to be valid after all your blinded but this FUD thing you keep talking about.
LstOfTheBrunnenG said:You don't get it. You're acting as though Microsoft actually cares if people pirate protected HD content. They don't. All they cared about was being able to play HD-DVDs and Blu-Rays, so that Vista's MCE wasn't rendered obsolete by these new formats. The MPAA are the ones mandating these protection measures. Microsoft wanted to be able to play HD-DVDs, so they went along with what the movie industry demanded.
You would think from reading this article that Vista is extremely slow because of all the DRM built into it. The truth is, Vista does everything XP does for me, but faster. Yes, you heard me correctly, faster. So, if Vista really was polling my hardware every 30ms back when I had it installed, I really don't care, because it was still faster despite it.
I actually don't believe it was doing that, however. I think one of the major things this article tries to mislead the reader about is that all of these content-protection measures are running even when protected content isn't being played. From everything I've read about Vista, they're only activated when asked for by some form of premium content. Thus, most of the horrible side effects of Vista's DRM which are highlighted by this article cannot possibly be encountered unless you're playing premium content.
When you come here spreading the contents of that article as though they were gospel, why are you so surprised that people who have actually used Vista and know better are daring to disagree with you? Rather than becoming informed about the issue yourself, why do you flame those that disagree with you?