Fascinating: Windows Vista has a DRM ‘feature’ that downscales HD content (e.g. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD) to a less-than-HD/better-than-DVD resolution for discs that request it (apparently, all major-studio releases do this). That means that the only true HD experiences on Vista will be with indie content and pirated major-studio movies. And now, consumers are buying HDTVs and are much more sensitive to video quality issues… (via) #
Archive for January, 2007
Warehouse sale at the Taschen store this weekend
“Thousands of slightly damaged and display copies from Taschen on sale at bargain basement prices, 50-75% off!” (via) #
Outlook has been switched from IE6 to Word’s rendering engine for Office 2007, taking email design back five years in the process
(or Microsoft doesn’t trust the security of IE7’s rendering engine enough to use it in their own products) #
I like big charts and I cannot lie
It’s only January and we already have a winner for blog post title of the year. (Just now trying Google Reader again—it looks better, but the tagging features are still underwhelming and there’s no support for authenticated feeds, which is a deal-killer for me.) #
