Ultra-high resolution DVDs are unprotected

[The Edge]

Like other DVDs, the disks do have tough digital copy protection, meaning only Hackers can duplicate them with a PC. But Macrovision, a technology that prevents people copying by simply connecting the analogue output of a DVD player to the analogue input of a recorder, has not been used

According to this (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993034) article, I must be a hacker:cool:

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[RadicalEd]

What are these european "high resolution" dvds the aricle speaks of?

[The Edge]

http://www.superbitdvd.com/

Basicly, DVD's released minus all the extras & foreign languages.
This allows the movie bitrate to be as high as possible (8mbs, i think:confused: ) Hence, "Superbit"
I didn't know they about them until recently

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[theReal]

Hey, I'm a Hacker, too! :D ;)

(I know quite some forumites actually are hackers, but certainly not me...)

[DJ Bobo]

I wish we can see more Anime DVDs encoded like the SuperBit DVDs ¬.¬
When I just see the DBZ DVDs encoded with only 3,6 Mbit/s average (the ones with 4 episodes per disc) and interlaced, Man, I could punch someone ¬.¬

[Nocturnus]

True hacker never betrays his identity.

[mpucoder]

That article is funny. First in that Macrovision objects to the statement that the disks are copy protected if they don't use Macrovision protection. Do they think the own the rights to the phrase "copy protected"?
Of course, even if the disks were Macrovision protected, that is so easy to bypass that I did it for years without even knowing it! I routinely use a video mixer with built-in digital frame sync, and, without even trying to be a "Mac buster" it is not bothered at all by the missing sync pulses and overmodulation during the vertical interval.
The second thing is that we all know how crappy even the best analog capture looks compared to a digital copy.