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As long as my Win2000 plays my games ...

No kidding doc. I've been tempted lately to install Win2K on my main workstation. I don't use most of the features of XP except system restore, and frankly using a good registry backup program like ERUNT and making an occasional Ghost image of your boot partition is just as good.

I'd have put Win2K on my laptop - nearly did - but the one thing XP has over 2K is that it boots and shuts down a hell of a lot faster.

I love Win2K thats what I have on my main computer as well. Yeah It boots up slower but its soo much faster once it boots up and you can run it on practically anything. GO! Win2K!

I just dumped my 5 year install of win2k for XP Stripped to the bone edition. This install of win2k has been updated with every service pack, 1-4, and I've had tons of software installed and removed, along with test hardware. It finally began behaving strangley, including locking up hard. So I figured it was a good time for a replacement OS. Mine boots slow anyway since I have SCSI that has to load at the bios level, which delays it's bootup. Once I see the XP start screen, it only takes 10 seconds or so to hit the desktop. Win2k would take over a minute.

Its just HDCP. I've read an article that HDCP could be cracked in as little as a month with enough money. I also saw a device that decodes HDCP DVI and puts it out unencrypted over DVI.

Not like any of this matters win2k or even XP are fine for me I only use windows for a couple hours a week and thats just to play games.

SO wait.. they want to make sure everything is secure all the way out to the monitor? So if this monitor is in the window of a store and is palyting some new movie its defeted the whole DCMA!!! whats next is microsoft going to have to sell implants to put in your eyes so that only you see the monitor! my god the more i read this the more i THINK about moving to linux.

Originally posted by rndmtask
Its just HDCP. I've read an article that HDCP could be cracked in as little as a month with enough money. I also saw a device that decodes HDCP DVI and puts it out unencrypted over DVI.

Not like any of this matters win2k or even XP are fine for me I only use windows for a couple hours a week and thats just to play games.

sounds like they could just sell an adapter with the drm built in and then a plug for the screen.

I also just saw that hdcp comment somewhere else which means this only applies to future movies/media.

Originally posted by Pugsley
my god the more i read this the more i THINK about moving to linux.

Perfect this is exactly what I hope happens. But linux currently can't play encryped windows media in the first place.

then the internet will split and all the windows media people will be here and ALL the other media will be over there.

Originally posted by rndmtask
Perfect this is exactly what I hope happens. But linux currently can't play encryped windows media in the first place.

Not sure what you mean by encrypted, but you can play windows media files in linux.

Originally posted by TheGirter
Not sure what you mean by encrypted, but you can play windows media files in linux.

DRM'd windows media files cannot be played in linux. No one has broken whatever they use to make the DRM work to my knowledge. The best place to get DRM'd windows media files is from a music store such as napster.