What do you make of this dvd?

andy

Please could you tell me if this dvd is an original? i am very concerned that it isn't , the dvd has a silver bottom , printed image (like an original) and says the type is DVD Video many thanks in advance. See pic herecould this be a very expensive quot;fakequot;? could you plase tell me how to get more info about the dvd.

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Cyph

Link do not work.
But anyway, it can happend with some small budget movies (mainly Porn) but this happend also for small low money movies, to do DVD on DVD-R.

If it's a movie from a major (21th century, castle rocks, disney, WB etc...), forget, it's a fake DVD.Use Advinfo or DVDdecrypter to get the pre lead in information, and you will know the manufacturing brand of the DVD-R.

Also, look at the size; If it's more than 4,700,000,000, it's a DVD9 and it cannot be a burned DVD.

I have looked in Advinfo , but it came up with aspi errors , i have a installed healthy aspi layer. I can't find the option in dvddecrypter (3.1.6).

Regards
cyph

p.s I did use a program included in nero , the format for dvd+R media was quot;dvd+Rquot; for this dvd it says quot;dvd Videoquot;

is there any way that a dvd-9 could be fake? if a certain guy worked in the factory for instance? or had meens to get his hands on the media/machines?
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cyph

DVD-9 has to be pressed. But if you or your friend work in such press company it is not so complicated. You need master (matrix) and little time to set press machine to process your batch. Total cost could be near 20 Euro for master and 0.30 Euro per each disk. But if you want to make some illegal copies it will be little bit harder and you will need more money and some illegal press company.

So for 30 Euro and 2 or 3 bottles of good alcohol you can release your own DVD edition .

(This is not official price list of course )

i see , i only ask because , i have a dvd-9 that i purchased , it looks quot;realquot; like a commercial dvd , but as i said above , am not sure if it is. i have been thinking about it for a while now , and i now think that the person i brought it off might own a factory or work late at one were he would have means to make such a copy. it also looks like the serial numbers on the disk have been melted / smudged off.  to make them un-tractable?

Oh yeah, I recently bought the 3 original Star Wars movie on Ebay. They were guaranteed an quot;official overseas releasequot; and a DVD-9. Yes, it's a DVD-9 alright, but sure as heck, it's a Chinese import bootleg. It has been completely mastered from the official laserdisc, and the audio is even in 5.1 DTS and Dolby Surround. It also came with the original trailers and loads of extras. I'm positive Lucas never authorized this release on DVD, but like I said, it's mastered from the official laserdisc release, and if you've ever seen a Laserdisc, you know that 425 horizontal lines can sometimes compete with DVDs 500 lines. Anyway, the quality looks so damned good, I doubt I will ever spend more money to buy the official release. Lucas better track down all the people producing these bootlegs, or he's going to loose alot of business when the official DVDs of the first 3 Star Wars movies are finally released. He already lost me, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

CG

thats very concerning   as technology increases ,it seems so does the skill to detect a fake.I suppose in a few years DVD-9 production will be a house hold thing , and they will make the machines fit on the head of a pin lol .
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cyph