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W7 drivers - why is everything being dumbed down
Hi all
Whilst I LIKE W7 I find I'm getting more and more disappointed by the latest drivers and program "updates" that "simplify" everything.
For example
1) Multi-media --- No composite input in WMC
2) My TV application which DOES have a composite input -- there's no Video Brightness, Contrast, Hue / colour adjustments -- there WAS in the XP version (Hauppage WinTV) which means now most of the time I can't watch the feed from my Satellite box (sent via a video streamer to the composite input of the TV card) because the picture is far too dark.
3) Audio -- for example Realtek HD audio -- no equalizer any more - just a horrible set of "canned" presets none of which I like very much.
Then take some "updates" of old trusted applications like NERO -- used to be easy to burn / author a DVD - ok you needed to go via a menu -- but so what. Now you get the "Smart Center" or stuff like that which makes it almost impossible for you do to anything outside the "canned" options.
I would have thought that people should need MORE choices these days with computers rather than less.
Much as I love W7 I'm going back to XP for my multi-media stuff -- I have the drivers I need for XP 64 bit version -- this is STILL faster than W7 BTW but really new hardware probably won't work on it. I'm using this machine now for all my multi-media needs until there's some decent sensible drivers out there on W7.
For the rest of my apps I'm still using W7 - no problem there and I'm lucky enough to have 2 or 3 older spare machines lying around anyway.
Cheers
jimbo