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OEM and Retail Vista DVDs identical?
I'm not posting this as a "windows bashing" post, but to let future buyers of Vista know some of the consequences of your choice. It will be taken as one though. Anyone who read Peter's Gutman's paper referred to in an earlier post http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt will have seen this

OEM and Retail Vista DVDs identical?
Mick Murphy MickMur...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general "OEM versions of Windows do not allow upgrades!" How did all the people that bought OEM computers pre-installed with XP manage to upgrade to Vista????? You are dangerous on here!!!! This is being all logged!

burning dvds with vista
Bertfromnz bertfro...@uguess.com nz comp This article tells you how any retail upgrade DVD can be used as a fully functioning full retail copy of Vista. http://www.dailytech.com:80/article.aspx?newsid=5932.

Will Windows Vista play DVDs?
Do I need some kind of encoder? As best as I remember, only Ultimate comes with a DVD decoder. You would need to install DVD playback software. Thank you Seth. I talked to a friend of mine today and he said his laptop with Vista won't play DVDs either. He suggests Sonic Cine Player - which you can order online.

Vista problems, especially writing dvds - UK posting
dnr d...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows mediacenter One of the proported advantages of HD-DVD over Blue Ray was that the standard required the hardware to allow a copy of the HD-DVD to a hard drive. With all the recent fuss about AACS I cannot determine if this capability will exist for Vista/MCE

Stopping DVDs from autoplaying in MCE Vista
Marc m...@wanadoo.be be forsale (bestemd voor de franse markt) Buena Vista Social Club, Wim Wenders, Ry Cooder en de rest van het cubaanse clubje. (5.1 geluid, DVD9) Beaute Volee van Bernardo Bertolucci samen in 1 doos (2 afzonderlijke dvds) 12 euro regio Ieper.

Vista and DVDs
NothingtoSay? jonathanglenis...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general I get this exact same problem with no DVD authoring software installed. I can still read a DVD at the command prompt but if i open it in explorer it just spits out a 'how would you like to prepare this blank disc' message.

Stopping DVDs from autoplaying in MCE Vista
Seth seth_lermanNOS...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup "David" <dgprozzoLE...@bellsouthOUT.net> wrote in message news:ua4LJc9YIHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... Windows Media Player on Vista Home Premium plays DVDs. Good to know. I haven't played with any of the "home" flavors as of yet.

Windows Media player won't play DVDs Vista home premium
Billy billyni...@btinternet.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices I have had this issue in XP, 2000 and Visa there is littel consistency in reading and writing discs with these multi-capable drives. It really seems to be a hit or a miss! Maybe blu-ray adn HDD will sort it all out (NOT) it will

Vista DVDs with integrated SP1
Buena Vista is starting to issue out these "Vista Series" titles and I think "Crimson Tide" should be one of those titles (the upcoming Vista Series If Buena Vista doesn't load up the disc with lots of foreign language DD 5.1 tracks like they tend to do, there would likely be room for a full bitrate DTS track.

burning dvds with vista
Prices (for ALL DVDs) are as marked & include all s&h.Please e mail JimSpo...@aol.com, if interested.Discs can be held for 1 week, 7 days-first come, Rose: Special Edition Pioneer Mother's Boys Buena Vista Child's Play 2 Universal Mighty Joe Young Buena Vista Hudson Hawk Columbia/TriStar American History X New

burning dvds with vista
The number that would pay for closed source software to watch hi-def DVDs on their PCs, software that would probably only run on one Linux distribution and would require a matching video driver, is approximately one. Indeed. They would just download the movie in an un-protected format, or buy it from the asian

unable to dvds since I upgraded to Vista
kplumm kpl...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general I bought an Advent 9115 laptop last week, with 2g of Ram, a 1.4 ghz dual core processor, running Vista. This seems to be PC world's 'own brand', possibly formerly known as E- Systems, though I got it from their partners Currys. I know that Vista has

Vista and Ripping DVDs...help!
(bestemd voor de franse markt) Buena Vista Social Club, Wim Wenders, Ry Cooder en de rest van het cubaanse clubje. (5.1 geluid, DVD9) Beaute Volee van Bernardo Bertolucci samen in 1 doos (2 afzonderlijke dvds) 12 euro regio Ieper mail naar markov at tiscali punt be.

Will Windows Vista play DVDs?
Kerry Brown ke...@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m microsoft public windows vista general This is being all logged! LOL - by whom and for what purpose? -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/

OEM and Retail Vista DVDs identical?
norm no...@afakeddomain.net microsoft public windows vista general Bruce Chambers wrote: Brian W wrote: "Bruce Chambers" <bchamb...@cable0ne.n3t> wrote in message news:u%23Sh35gVIHA.5132@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... Brian W wrote: As I've said, one can do an in-place upgrade from XP to Vista using an OEM product key (a

Best DVDs for 5.1 Surround Sound?
Well, I didn't know that Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate had a DVD decoder built in. It was still worth me getting PowerDVD though as Vista's decoder can't handle DVD-VR format discs which my DVD recorder uses on DVD-RAM when recording programmes. Isn't that the reason of the extra cost from XP to Vista

OEM and Retail Vista DVDs identical?
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:51:35 -0700, "Hebee Jeebes" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote: Why would you find a program now compatible with Vista when it hasn't even been released yet and go only knows how many changes will be made to it before it does ship. Vista RC1 was released to the public last week.

Workaround Discovered For "Clean Install" With Vista Upgrade DVDs
How did all the people that bought OEM computers pre-installed with XP manage to upgrade to Vista????? You are dangerous on here!!!! This is being all logged! "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" wrote: No, OEM Keys are hard coded to system they are distributed with, OEM versions of Windows do not allow upgrades.

Vista and Ripping DVDs...help!
S.Sengupta ssengup...@msn.com.invalid microsoft public windows mediacenter http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/40f23376-1351-49d5-8d48- 5c05d35f2ac81033.mspx regards, S.Sengupta[MS-MVP] Super Play wrote: Another question! How on earth do I stop MCE autoplaying a DVD when one is put in the drive?