Windows Vista will not have support for older DVD drives
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Windows Vista will not have support for really old DVD drives. This means that if you have an “old” drive will you notice that encrypted/regionalized DVD movies will no longer play. Fun stuff eh? I wonder how many people out there have a working older DVD-ROM in their computer right now.
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 system to enforce region coding, with the further understanding that starting on January 1, 2000 all newly-manufactured drives would support region coding in hardware rather than relying on software enforcement.
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