Microsoft makes deal with Macrovision
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft and Macrovision will make their media-protection systems work together to keep restrictions on video content consistent even when it's transferred from one category of device to another.
The deal, announced yesterday, will connect Microsoft's technology for digital-media protection to Macrovision's technology for protecting analog video content.
For example, a movie downloaded onto a computer would retain the same preset limitations on its use even if the video output were recorded from the computer over an analog connection. In another example, an on-demand movie protected by Macrovision's technology would keep those protections even when transferred to a computer that uses Microsoft's technologies.