Component downrezzing is supported in XP, so there is no reason to believe it won't be supported in Vista. Grab a video card that has a component out and try to play a macrovsion protected DVD over 480P. It will not play unless you hack the macrovision. Which isn't hard but it is neccesary.
Movies protected with AACS will be downrezzed over component. It will be interesting to see if the same holds true for VGA.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Component downrezzing is supported in XP, so there is no reason to believe it won't be supported in Vista. Grab a video card that has a component out and try to play a macrovsion protected DVD over 480P. It will not play unless you hack the macrovision. Which isn't hard but it is neccesary.
Movies protected with AACS will be downrezzed over component. It will be interesting to see if the same holds true for VGA.