Home Audio and Windows Vista
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Posted by wieczors on March 8, 2007, 3:42 pm
Please log in for more thread options We're building a home and in the process of researching options for home automation. We are planning on purchasing a computer with Windows Vista. Has anyone installed a multi-zone audio system and connected it to Windows Vista? If so, can you offer some suggestions/advice! Thanks and have a great day! Sincerely, Sarah | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by isw on March 8, 2007, 10:57 pm
Please log in for more thread options Yes. Read everything you can about Vista's DRM (Digital Rights Management) and how it can prevent you from using content you have a perfect right to use. Make sure you know what you're getting in to. If you really, really want Vista, I'd recommend waiting at least a year to see how things settle out. Or you might take a look at Apple's offerings. Isaac | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Bill Kearney on March 9, 2007, 9:44 am
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> Yes. Read everything you can about Vista's DRM (Digital Rights
> Management) and how it can prevent you from using content you have a > perfect right to use. Make sure you know what you're getting in to. > > If you really, really want Vista, I'd recommend waiting at least a year > to see how things settle out. Or you might take a look at Apple's > offerings. That's bullshit. If you're all hung up about DRM look no further than Apple for it. Their iTunes tracks are laden with it, not to mention sound crappy too. No thanks. As for whole house audio, it'll depend on what sort of setup you're using to distribute the audio throughout the house. If you're planning on multiple zones (each one listening to an independent source) then things get more complicated. That and how you expect to control the sources from within each room. I use a PC running J.River's MediaCenter version12 to distribute both FM and 3 audio streams (mainly mp3, but some FLAC, ogg and wma stuff too). I've got three USB 'sound cards' attached to the PC. I've setup MC12 to treat them as "zones". Each zone gets it's own playlist. They're controlled in-room from Russound Uno keypads. It's been working quite well for a couple years now. It'll make no difference to run MC12 on Vista, XP or even w2k. -Bill Kearney | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Slammer on March 9, 2007, 10:24 am
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>> Good Afternoon:
>> >> We're building a home and in the process of researching options for >> home automation. We are planning on purchasing a computer with Windows >> Vista. Has anyone installed a multi-zone audio system and connected it >> to Windows Vista? If so, can you offer some suggestions/advice! Thanks >> and have a great day! >
> Yes. Read everything you can about Vista's DRM (Digital Rights > Management) and how it can prevent you from using content you have a > perfect right to use. Make sure you know what you're getting in to. > > If you really, really want Vista, I'd recommend waiting at least a year > to see how things settle out. Or you might take a look at Apple's > offerings. Apple will prove no better. Still Vista has a serious flaw in that you cannot playback HDTV as a digital signal because of DRM. Open source Unix will prove a better option. FreeBSD, Fedora, OpenSusie, even Solaris. Horror story here: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html#quality | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Robert Green on March 9, 2007, 6:49 pm
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> If you really, really want Vista, I'd recommend waiting at least a year
> to see how things settle out. Or you might take a look at Apple's > offerings. Here's one kiwi's horror story about Vista's DRM: A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html#quality Executive Summary "Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost." It's a good read for anyone thinking of buying Vista. So is: http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_nvidia_hdcp_support/ The Great HDCP Fiasco -- Bobby G. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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> We're building a home and in the process of researching options for
> home automation. We are planning on purchasing a computer with Windows
> Vista. Has anyone installed a multi-zone audio system and connected it
> to Windows Vista? If so, can you offer some suggestions/advice! Thanks
> and have a great day!