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To: zeugma

We can compare links, but from what I’ve previously read you need HDCP compatibility to display most HDTV signals, and Vista is or at least was the only way to do that, while Linux is rendered incompatible due to a licensing conflict with the HDCP protocol.

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/vista_month_wel.html

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/hardware/hdcp-vista.ars

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/wtf-does-hdcp-mean-for-me-605708/?s=fbde1c6712464335619540d23a4f3656


83 posted on 12/17/2007 8:15:20 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle

All posts by known troll Golden Eagle have been Blocked, to view posts by this person you must edit the FRTrollBlocker.user.js file.


84 posted on 12/17/2007 8:31:49 PM PST by zeugma (Hillary! - America's Ex-Wife!)
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