[Beowulf] Sidebar: Vista Rant

[John Hearns]

Jim Lux wrote:
> 
> That's it.. a Vista PC is a TV/DVD player that can also run office 
> applications.
> 
> (I do find humorous all the references to viewing medical imagery 
> simultaneously with watching protected HD-DVD content.  Yeah, that's 
> what *I* want the radiologist  on call doing.. watching a movie while 
> he/she studies my CAT scan.)

Jim, I might be wrong, but this comment may be an aside addressed at 
some articles which came out before Vistas launch, discussing how when 
non-approved media contect had been viewed on a PC the graphics card 
would be deliberately clocked down. Then if the PC were used to view 
medical images by a clinician there would be a degredation of image quality.
I'm sure I remember reading such an article.




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