I hate it when simple tasks don’t work. Even more frustrating is when Microsoft makes changes to their products that make it harder for the consumer and easier for the large media companies to slip DRM into ever nook and cranny of our lives.
I popped a legal DVD I received from Netflix into my Sony DVD-ROM drive on my Vista machine and it tells me that I need to update my GRAPHICS drivers due to some DRM scheme on my machine. This is really lame. I need to take a screenshot of the exact error message but it did it a few times before I gave up. I rebooted my machine and now the DVD just hangs for a minute and the drive door opens.
I’m not sure what’s going on but if this is Vista’s way of welcoming me into Microsoft’s vision of DRM on the desktop, I’m bailing out very soon.
Update: I’m still having problems but I’m not sure if it’s Windows Vista. I’m still confused by the error message it gave me about having to update my video card drivers which makes so sense. I tried another couple of DVD and did get them to play. This leads me to believe that it might have something to do with the DVD (Netflix supplied “All the President’s Men”).
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