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So how much of that greatly-feared Vista DRM everyone used to rave about in the past is present in the actual product?

My massive library of music and video is working trouble-free, even being shared by WMP11 to my 360. I believe the DRM stuff was the HDMI-standard 'absolutely will not display pirated material', though, so it won't have any effect on the sort of media I use.

PS I just said nothing useful.

Unless you plan on watching protected WMVs or high definition discs (HDDVD, Bluray) you'll never encounter it, with a caveat of WMP's video renderer which does utilise some parts of the protected pipeline. If you use another player (and there are a number of superior alternatives out there unless you require the DRM, library or streaming capabilities of WMP) it isn't touched at all.

In other words, a non-issue.

Shinova wrote:So how much of that greatly-feared Vista DRM everyone used to rave about in the past is present in the actual product?

I've hardly noticed any more DRM when using Vista than I've experienced using XP. Which is to say virtually none whatsoever.

I can't play downloaded tv through Windows Media Center... but I don't think that's a DRM issue

The DRM is strictly for protected HD content, isn't it? How many people even use protected HD content? It's not as if everybody is watching Blu-Ray all the time.