MS to eases copy protection in XP Media Center
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Microsoft announced today that it will ease the copy protection features in Windows XP Media Center Edition (XP MCE), the new XP version for digital media enthusiasts that will ship with Hewlett-Packard (HP) media center PCs beginning this month. Previously, the company had architected XP MCE to let consumers back up television programming recorded with the product's digital video recording (DVR) feature to playback only on the PC that made the recording. But under the new policy, XP MCE recordings can be copied to recordable DVD and played back on any PC running XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Media Player 9 (WMP 9). DVD players featuring support for the new Windows Media Video (WMV) 9 codec will also be able to playback the backup DVDs, the company says.