Pirates decided that the copy protection scheme for HD DVD was worth a shot. The result? The movie is entitled Serenity and was made available as a .EVO file which is playable on most DVD playback software packages. The file was encoded in MPEG-4 VC-1 resulting in 19.6 GB worth of hard disk space. The first full-resolution rip of an HD DVD movie on BitTorrent. Who knows, maybe this is yet another factor in the HD war.
An announcement less than a month ago by an anonymous programmer known as Muslix64 specified that the copy protection on HD DVD had been bypassed. The open-source program to implement this was called BackupHDDVD. The software cleverly avoids (for how long?) legal justice by placing the responsibility of cracking on the user, not the software. To extract an unencrypted copy of the HD DVD source material the user has to fetch that disc's volume or title key.
CyberLink, the makers of PowerDVD playback software, have already assured everyone that their software is not responsible for extracting the title keys from the media. Content providers, on the other hand, have declared that they reserve the right to invalidate known pirated keys in the future. Of course, they will have to figure out which application gets the volume keys (Cyberlink has not yet been cleared). Future titles could potentially require, as soon as a disc is inserted, that the user upgrade their software in order to play discs.
News source: Ars Technica
An announcement less than a month ago by an anonymous programmer known as Muslix64 specified that the copy protection on HD DVD had been bypassed. The open-source program to implement this was called BackupHDDVD. The software cleverly avoids (for how long?) legal justice by placing the responsibility of cracking on the user, not the software. To extract an unencrypted copy of the HD DVD source material the user has to fetch that disc's volume or title key.
CyberLink, the makers of PowerDVD playback software, have already assured everyone that their software is not responsible for extracting the title keys from the media. Content providers, on the other hand, have declared that they reserve the right to invalidate known pirated keys in the future. Of course, they will have to figure out which application gets the volume keys (Cyberlink has not yet been cleared). Future titles could potentially require, as soon as a disc is inserted, that the user upgrade their software in order to play discs.
News source: Ars Technica
and I have a 24/24Mb Fiber broadband, and in Scandinavia, 24Mb downstream on ADSL isn't that rare and expensive. I foresee the lack of discs and writers to be a bigger problem.
Still, I'd rather buy a HD-DVD movie since for the effort it'd be a movie I wanted anyway, even though I'd be able to fully enjoy 720p HD-DVD.. well, I could if I had a HD-DVD addon for my 360.
I know a pirated package of the entire series of Bond has been popular for a very long time, and it's of comparable size to this, if not larger, so there you have your real-world "evidence" too, as well as the fact that this movie is currently spread too.
some of those with extras on them wont play properly at the moment (1/3 ish).
most of the others are 25gb.
Read the text man!
besides, having a pirate copy ain't that great neither, still cost a ton to burn a copy, also what a waste of HDD space.
ouch....
In the end, the only thing that will boost sells of either format will be how many movies are exclusive to either format that people want to watch (and/or own). If Blu-Ray's encryption is not shown to be crackable soon then it may end up with more exclusive titles
Batman Begins has also been released: 24.76GB
That depends on your connection and network... You talk of it like some would spend several days downloading this, when that's quite far from the truth.
Good way to discourage me from purchasing products. Consitantly making them annoying.
i only have a 384k DSL connection (40KB/s) right now anyways for 15 dollars per month... even though it aint super fast it's still real good for the price im paying
True.. but just think of the quality of a HD-DVD Movie thats 19.6 GB in size and put that into a Compresed format just think of the quality that it would make.. useing Divx from this would for sure make the video SD-DVD quality.
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It's like watching a moving photo - especially on a 10ft HD projector screen
The best option would be to use the same HD-DVD comrpession but with lower compression settings, At this point in time we're hard pressed to find new comrpession formats that manage to compress movies more while still retaining quality.
That's pretty similar to what XviD rips do now except you won't be moving to a better codec.
:bah-humbug:
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