Originally posted by: javisaman
I just got my Vista today too (in MD)! The disk it self looks crazy with all the holographs and whatnot.
Anyhoo I'm also considering this Anytime upgrade to Ultimate, but I would like to still be able to transfer the installation if I needed to. I don't know if I should install it on my current computer or wait till I build a new one (which I plan on doing sometime in the summer) because of this problem.
Does anyone know if I need Vista Home Premium/Ultimate to get CableCard support. I know Business doesn't support CableCard (or even DVD!) natively, but would it still work with some third-party applications?
1) Yeah I'd wait to activate it if you know you're going to build a new box in a few months.
I guess if you're planning on leaving Vista on that new box "forever" and just won't ever need to transfer
it to a 2nd future PC you'd be OK if you installed now and transfered to the 2nd one this summer, but
if you have no compelling reason to use it now you might as well wait.
2) I read an article online saying that ONLY pre-built specially authorized systems will have cablecard
support and that it would NOT be permitted to home-build a system with cablecard support, and that
even if you somehow got a cable card reader and installed it into another kind of system it would still
not work presumably due to some kind of system hardware validation process.
I think it was said that this was the CableLabs regulation and that it was disappointing but very unlikely
to ever change. I'm not sure if that was "up to date" information but given the whole DRM fiasco
I wouldn't be a BIT surprised if it was true.
3) As for DVD.... Uh I thought VISTA in general was supposed to be able to burn DVDs like for backup data.
I thought that DVD VIDEO AUTHORING was something that HOME PREMIUM had but that BUSINESS and
ENTERPRISE and STARTER lacked. As for regular old DVD VIDEO PLAYBACK, I'm not sure, but I THOUGHT that
any VISTA version should be able to do that with Windows Media Player or whatever.
As for HD-DVD / Blue-Ray DVD Video Playback -- I thought they were going to restrict high definition playback
of protected HD content on those formats to 64 bit VISTA only and I'm not sure if you'd need a particular
VISTA edition (other than a 64 bit one) for that.
Here's the vista feature comparison chart
http://tech.cybernetnews.com/windows-vi...-premium-business-enterprise-ultimate/
Looks like the features relating to MAKING movies are:
Windows
Movie Maker
Windows
Movie Maker HD
Windows
DVD Maker
At first glance DVD Maker seems to be about authoring Movies onto DVD; hopefully just for burning
data discs you don't need it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_DVD_Maker
http://www.windowsdvdmaker.com/
And yes I've seen 3rd party software that can both burn DVDs (for data or video content) and
also there's 3rd party software for authoring DVD movies etc. too... so you don't absolutely need
HOME PREMIUM.
The only gotcha seems to be if you want to STREAM movies/audio to an XBOX 360 you may have more
functionality with HOME PREMIUM than other options thanks to the way Microsoft crippled the XBOX into
not supporting other formats than Windows Media streaming or something like that.