One of the truly unforgivable aspects of the Foxtel Download launch recently was that it didn’t support 64-bit Windows systems. Fortunately there are people smarter than me who have worked out a way to get around this limitation.
If you head on over to the 0xF051 blog, they’ve got a pretty simple to follow guide to enable the downloads on a 64-bit system. Of course, you still need to have a valid Foxtel subscription to make it work, but that’s to be expected.
As always – user beware if you’re going to try this. But if you’re game to give it a go, let us know how it works in the comments section.
[0xF051 via Lifehacker]
matt
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 4:54 PM… wat…
I’ve been using win7 64 for a while now with no problems. unless its a driver there should be NO compatibility issues.
is this one of those monumentally stupid, the-64-bit-version-has-a-different-id-that-makes-it-look-like-a-completely-different-os things that dumb installers die on…
Adam
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 5:07 PMWhat about Mac users
Will Jenkins
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 7:48 PM“One of the truly unforgivable aspects of the Foxtel Download launch recently was that it didn’t support 64-bit Windows systems.”
Not to be a bitch but I have a feeling it was more unforgivable (although not entirely unexpected) that Macs weren’t supported.
Can anyone explain exactly why these things are never rolled out with Mac support – isn’t that the point of having Flash- and Silverlight-based things like this?
Ben Toscano
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 8:49 PMI asked a foxtel rep via live help, and the reason for no Mac support was because the files couldn’t be protected with DRM (as Windows media player does not support it)
I then asked why not just use iTunes to which I got “sorry, you’re only allowed to watch the content on your computer”
matt
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 11:10 AMwhy is it that people who know nothing about computers are always involved with things like this? no wonder these things take so long to roll out.
Greg
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 6:04 PMWatching TV on a PC is so early 2000s. Come to think of it so is DRM.
Awesome!