Episode III & DVD Decrypter...

[HKT3020_1]

I was making a backup of the disc and ripped it without a problem whatsoever so no need to worry about that thankfully. ;) Now I am wondering if anyone else has run this through DVD Decrypter and the program is identifying the disc as CHARLOTTE_DISC1. I just found it rather strange and perhaps I've been given a defective disc. :confused:

[tjones]

I was making a backup of the disc and ripped it without a problem whatsoever so no need to worry about that thankfully. ;) Now I am wondering if anyone else has run this through DVD Decrypter and the program is identifying the disc as CHARLOTTE_DISC1. I just found it rather strange and perhaps I've been given a defective disc. :confused:

No havent purchased yet but I plan to before the release sale price, changes to regular retail...

[t00ld00d]

My copy also shows up as CHARLOTTE_DISC1. There's also some kind of player built into the DVD.It wouldn't allow me to go fullscreen on my widescreen TV so I tried to bypass it with WMP. Then I got an incorrect region error. Ripped it HD with DVDDecrypter and anydvd and it plays fine.

[setarip_old]

Now I am wondering if anyone else has run this through DVD Decrypter and the program is identifying the disc as CHARLOTTE_DISC1.

Yes - Perhaps an inside Internet-related joke about "The Web" and "Charlotte's Web"?

[BSpielbauer]

I was making a backup of the disc and ripped it without a problem whatsoever so no need to worry about that thankfully. ;) Now I am wondering if anyone else has run this through DVD Decrypter and the program is identifying the disc as CHARLOTTE_DISC1. I just found it rather strange and perhaps I've been given a defective disc. :confused:


I suspect an error. This is only a guess, but I have a suspicion that this compilation was on a hard drive somewhere, during the mastering process, and Lucas' usual strict security concerns led someone to put them in a file folder named with an "innocent-sounding" name --"Charlotte_Disc_1" and Charlotte_Disc_2." -- in case some other employee was snooping the hard drive. If they saw a couple of folders named "Star_Wars," you can bet they might want to take a peek to see what was in that folder. If they saw "Charlotte," the user hoped they would just move on to the next folder.

I believe that someone intended to rename the folders prior to its being sent off to actually be pressed at the manufacturing plants, and this step was merely forgotten until it was too late. By then, those who noticed decided to just "let it go."

I may be naiive, but I have seen much larger and more embarrassing errors (does anyone recall the Florida state government's campaign a few years back in which they sent out hundreds of thousands of slick, very expensive printed mailings with a bold headline -- "Let's Stamp Out Literacy In the State of Florida in 5 Years.")

Someone probably decided this one (the Star Wars one) was a "no harm done" boo-boo, and they let the DVD stamping machines continue to run.

I have no evidence, this is just a hunch...

-Bruce

[setarip_old]

http://www.starwars.com/episode-iii/release/video/news20051102.html

[lckeys]

WOW - a possible collecter's item, eh?
I wonder if my backup's worth more $ now as well. ;^)