Re: [TCLUG:12738] DVD/Reverse Engineering/etc.

[Jon Schewe <schewe@tcfreenet.org>]

Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu> writes:

> Christopher Reid Palmer wrote:
> > 
> > I disagree. The difference is analog/digital -- with VHS, you lose quality
> > every time you make a descendant copy (actually, you lose quality every
> > time you play the tape!). With DVD you can get ver-bit-im (har har)
> > copies, and there really is no reason to get the original if you can get a
> > copy for free.
> 
> Perhaps the question is, when will it be free (or a least cheap) to
> download/copy/make DVDs?  I suppose there are people out there
> transferring the datastreams of various movies around already (though I
> wonder if they used DeCSS or some other method).  The cost of writable
> DVD media (not to mention the drive) is fairly prohibitive right now,
> although hard drives continue to drop in price.  You could get 10+ Gigs
> for $150, and you could store a few movies on that.

Well it's already free to get copies of DVD's easily.  Provided you're patient
enough or have a fast pipe to the internet.  My roommate has found a few
newsgroups with full DVD rips.  Most of them are in MS asf format, but some
are in avi.  The asf's are about 600MB perl movie, I think.  

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Jon Schewe 
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