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From: Gary Britt 

Should this really be a surprise to anyone?  The copyright protectors have
already ruined Tivo and they sure don't want a computer to be able to do what
Tivo used to do.  Microsoft is so in bed with the content providers and trying
to have exclusive content available on Windows that they will eventually find
themselves with no users except people doing word processing and spreadsheets. 
Then at that point just a matter of time before people get tired of having two
computer systems to use.  One for word processing and spreadsheets and one for
everything else.

Gary

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> Vista, DRM and the unfortunate PVR user.
>
>
> from microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup
> subject 'Vista blocking recordings'
>
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> I decided to install Vista Ultimate as a test on the PC we use to run our
> plasma TV where we have had MCE for at least the last 2 years. We have
> always been pretty happy with the setup, a few performance hiccups here and
> there but nothing worse than I have seen with any PVR. So now that Vista is
> on there, a movie just came on the kids channel that I wanted to record, and
> I got a message:
>
> "Vista cannot record this program due to restrictions imposed by the
> provider" and Vista won't record it!!!
>
> Pardon my French but this is bloody F&*king ridiculous!! Isn't the whole
> point of PVR functionality so that we are not slaved to schedules and can
> record and watch shows, broadcast over cable that we pay for, at a more
> convenient time?
>
> That's the end of Vista for that box, going back to MCE and I might look
> into the PVR provided by my cable company and dump all Microsoft
> entertainment OSes.
>
>
>
>

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