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| Thread ID: 82906 | 2007-09-13 00:08:00 | Illegal DVD's | heaton (3697) | PC World Chat |
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| 590654 | 2007-09-13 11:39:00 | I guarantee you I could copy a protected DVD that would play perfect in both your Philips player and your PC. They aren't that great at detecting copies unless you've been a total clot and like Sherman said, copied the files straight over with windows etc If you have been hiring from a well known company then it's highly unlikely that any of their DVDs are copies, at least tell us the exact error you're getting. I doubt the authorities would care about you playing possible copies, they would be much more interested as to why a well known company was lending pirated DVDs in the first place (if that was the case) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 590655 | 2007-09-13 14:29:00 | heaton: Before you start jumping to conclusions here I want to point out some facts (but I am afraid you have already started to jumping to conclusions here) Depending on the copy protection on the DVD, there ARE disks that your computer DVD players wont play & WMP Will SAY that there is copyright infringements (as the disk may think that you may be about to rip the movie & pirate it) As some disks &/ or some copy protection will NOT let you to run a DVD movie on your computer so that’s why you got that message saying about copyright infringements. I Hope this clears this up a bit more on why some disks won’t work in your computer. |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 590656 | 2007-09-13 14:39:00 | There could be a numbers of reasons why your DVD player won’t play a few movies (at lest of all of them been Illegal, as most well known DVD hiring Company like Video Easy, Blockbusters etc.. wont take that risk) 1. As Sherman said what Region are the DVD’s that wont play? 2. What do the back of the DVD's look like? Is there many scratch or small lines on the disks? 3. How old is your DVD player? Since you don’t want to say in public where you get your DVD’s from, how about you PM me where you get them from (I will keep it private, I promise)? (We could be getting DVD’s from the same place as you are) |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 590657 | 2007-09-13 22:18:00 | Conspiracy theory here, but I wonder if some bugger has been hiring dvd's from that store and replacing them with his own pirated copies? | Greg (193) | ||
| 590658 | 2007-09-13 22:32:00 | Sigh.... DO YOU KNOW WHAT REGION THE DVD's ARE???? (the ones that won't play) If so, can you TELL us?? Also, it would help if we could be told the exact wording of the error message in WMP. I doubt if it is to do with a DVD being illegal - although it could be if someone just copied the files straight from the DVD to the HDD using windows explorer... (which would make the copied DVD not play in a player or WMP) Heavier sigh. I have configured my DVD player to be able to play from ALL regions so I don't think it is a region problem although I could stand corrected as I am not an expert. Most of the DVD's in question are of old television programmes: Foyles War, Waterloo etc. if this is relevant. The guy from Phillips explained to me that they,Phillips have some sort of agreement whereby they configure their G type dvd players to not play discs that have not met the copyright standards. WMP appears to have the same restriction. I have forgotten the exact wording of the error message. I don't think it used the word illegal but it did imply that there was a copyright issue. What a can of worms I have opened up. Cheers |
heaton (3697) | ||
| 590659 | 2007-09-13 22:34:00 | There could be a numbers of reasons why your DVD player won’t play a few movies (at lest of all of them been Illegal, as most well known DVD hiring Company like Video Easy, Blockbusters etc.. wont take that risk) 1. As Sherman said what Region are the DVD’s that wont play? 2. What do the back of the DVD's look like? Is there many scratch or small lines on the disks? 3. How old is your DVD player? Since you don’t want to say in public where you get your DVD’s from, how about you PM me where you get them from (I will keep it private, I promise)? (We could be getting DVD’s from the same place as you are) What's PM ing you mean. I am an 83 year old duffer and this kind of language is beyond me. |
heaton (3697) | ||
| 590660 | 2007-09-13 22:36:00 | heaton: Before you start jumping to conclusions here I want to point out some facts (but I am afraid you have already started to jumping to conclusions here) Depending on the copy protection on the DVD, there ARE disks that your computer DVD players wont play & WMP Will SAY that there is copyright infringements (as the disk may think that you may be about to rip the movie & pirate it) As some disks &/ or some copy protection will NOT let you to run a DVD movie on your computer so that’s why you got that message saying about copyright infringements. I Hope this clears this up a bit more on why some disks won’t work in your computer. Why then should I have to pay the hiring company good money when I can't play their darned disks ??? |
heaton (3697) | ||
| 590661 | 2007-09-13 22:40:00 | What's PM ing you mean. I am an 83 year old duffer and this kind of language is beyond me. PM = Private Message |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 590662 | 2007-09-13 23:15:00 | PM = Private Message How do I do this ? |
heaton (3697) | ||
| 590663 | 2007-09-13 23:22:00 | Heavier sigh. I have configured my DVD player to be able to play from ALL regions so I don't think it is a region problem although I could stand corrected as I am not an expert. Most of the DVD's in question are of old television programmes: Foyles War, Waterloo etc. if this is relevant. The guy from Phillips explained to me that they,Phillips have some sort of agreement whereby they configure their G type dvd players to not play discs that have not met the copyright standards. Heavier sigh. Some of this info could have been included earlier rather than drip fed. If you do configure your DVD player to play all regions you can be caught by Enhanced Region Coding RCE where a disk won't play unless the player is set for the exact region rather than play all regions. RCE isn't likely with something like Foyles War but Philips could have made the DVD player so fussy about the DVD specifications that a minor mistake by the producer of Foyles War is regarded as a fault. Deliberate mistakes were a method that some studios tried to stop copying. |
PaulD (232) | ||
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