howie
Premium,MVM
join:2003-04-08
Little Falls, NJ
| reply to Kanebrake
Re: [Vista] Blu-ray & Vista Media Center
Microsoft should release that "TV Pack 2008" already (to all Vista WMC users, not just OEM's)... Not sure if it includes BD support but it seems like a major upgrade and one that I could surely use. 
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Kanebrake
JJ - Hendrick 48 Car
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join:2002-03-12
| I can't believe how far behind MS is on this Blu-Ray business. It's difficult to get the family interested in VMC when you have to come and start the program for them.
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blurayluvr
@rr.com
| They did, they added DRM support for BD - like they did with XP's COPP in SP2.
It's just the decoder thing you'd need. Same thing with DVD decoder for XP MCE - MCE will not support DVD playback until you install DVD decoder.
It's not like they are preventing you from watching it. Plus blu-ray support was new in 2006. |
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Octavean
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
| That’s the first I have heard of it.
So by that logic all one would need to do is install a compliant Blu-ray decoder application and use a utility to assure that Vista Media Center uses the new decoder.
Again, I have never heard this before so I’m guessing that you are referring to the new Media Center TV Pack 2008. |
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Kanebrake
JJ - Hendrick 48 Car
Premium
join:2002-03-12 | Ya ... I'd like to hear more about this too. |
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lorennerol
Premium
join:2003-10-29
Seattle, WA | I thought I read in the last two weeks that MS dropped it from the upcoming update to Vista Media Center and that it was a marketing decision to withhold it so they could list it as a new feature in Windows 7. |
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Octavean
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
| said by lorennerol  :I thought I read in the last two weeks that MS dropped it from the upcoming update to Vista Media Center and that it was a marketing decision to withhold it so they could list it as a new feature in Windows 7. They say the same thing about DirecTV and H.264 support. There are reports of H.264 functionality in earler Betas but it was pulled in RC0. |
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