From: "Geo" 

"Tony Williams"  wrote in message
news:43501088$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> That might have been the case 10 years ago, but I think people's
> tolerance for these sort of games is less nowadays. I expect to see
> disappointing (for MS) sales of upgrades if Vista is crippled on non-DRM
> hardware; that leaves preloads on new systems, which is where I'm a
> little less optimistic. That's where we'll see just how strong the
> preload monopoly is these days.

Pretty much all DVD players are crippleware, but people upgraded from VHS
to DVD anyway because of the quality. It's going to be the same situation
here, to get HD-DVD compatibility you are going to have to buy HD-DVD
compatible hardware or look at fuzzy or blank screen.

Either that or the underground filesharing networks are going to become
popular in a very big, very unstoppable way.

Geo.

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