On the inability to support hardware that nobody makes any more

Raymond ChenDecember 9, 2005Dec 9, 200512/9/05

Windows Vista will not have support for really old DVD drives. (The information below was kindly provided to me by the optical storage driver team.) When PC DVD drives first came out in 1998, the drives themselves did not have support for region codes but instead relied on (and in fact the DVD specification required) the operating ...