That *had* occurred to me, but me being the trusting guy I am, I figured that they wouldn't do that to paying customers.

No, it didn't. This is on a Windows laptop. A lot of Mac people seem to be okay with the new player, so either Silverlight works better under OS X than Vista, or Mac user's expectations are really low. For me, and apparently a good chunk of Netflix's customer base, it's a step down. I imagine Siverlight would work fine, but there are obviously some glitches that need to be ironed out before Netflix forces a new player down our throats without giving us the option to backtrack.

And that doesn't work with Netflix, once your account is set for the Silverlight player, that's all they let you use. Disable it, and it forces you to install/enable it before watching. No other options.

Hookay, running a Core 2 Duo based system here, and I get:
1. Fullscreen artifacts
2. Stuttering (AFAICT it's not streaming problems)
3. More pixellation in higher quality modes than the old player.

So no, it's not just FUD.

It wasn't. It embedded WMP, hence the Windows-specificity.

Nope. It just avoids the deeper, more serious issue of a culture that is alright with killing people because they're female. The problem isn't that females are being born to these people, the problem is that they are willing to kill them because of that.

Given the current distress of the airline industry, I don't think the hyper cost cutting that happened after dereg is working, and it won't be too long before airlines realize that they will have to offer a good experience to get customers, as they used to.

Making customers happy is long term good business, and works fine in a deregulated market. The companies have to realize this on their own, though.

HEY!
Who's been leaking studio info?

Sadly, I'm afriad that you're on the dot about this. I can just see Hollywood cutting out CB's heart and eating it. Frankly, I hope it gets cancelled.

Obviously, you *both* belong to political party.

They did understand that.
Which is why they still offer drivers for XP. They just figured there aren't enough Stereo3D XP users for it to matter if they pull support.

Vista is getting support instead of XP for the same reason XP got support instead of Windows 2000.

It's next in line. What did you expect?

Microsoft can and will make you move forward. Forward being a relative term when we're talking Microsoft.

And I'm perfectly aware of the reasons not to use Vista. Which is why I removed it from my computer.

..Only an Apple user could possibly believe that.

OH NO!! NO STEREO 3D SUPPORT! I MUST USE 3D GLASSES! VISTA IS A DISASTER!

That's the point. They are kinda pulling numbers out of their ass. The way they're measuring piracy rates is way to inaccurate to give a reasonable figure. Take me. I bought the game, have it installed on Linux via Wine, and also under WinXP. When they release the Linux version, I'll use that.