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#87018
Topic
a question for DVD experts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87018/action/topic#87018
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Dude you said I can copy the files to my desktop, which would be like copying (encrypted) files out of an encrypted ZIP file without the password. Now you're saying I can duplicate the disc-image, which presumably is like copying an encrypted ZIP file to a new location. I'm still not convinced, so I tried BlindWrite, and then CloneCD. That did not work either. I tried DiscDump... nup. In the end I was forced to use DVD Decrypter.... which shouldn't count since it is a decryption program, however I turned off CSS decryption and all other modification methods. So I duplicated the disc, and then decrypted the files... which worked.



However this is a long way short of what you originally claimed, which was that you could copy the files straight off the disc in their encrypted form onto your desktop. For a start, I HAD to use a program designed to cope with CSS in the first place to duplicate the disc. There was no way to do without 3rd party software - that is to say WindowsXP itself did not have the native ability to copy the files, which is what you originally implied.
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#87007
Topic
Riddles
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/87007/action/topic#87007
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Originally posted by: Darth Simon
There are three light bulbs in a room, and three light switches outside the room. You are outside, and want to match up which switch goes with which light bulb. You can only travel into the room once, and cannot come back in again. You can do anything you want upon entering the room. How can you set the situation so that you will know which switch goes with which light bulb?
I think I've got the answer. Turn two switches on, wait 5 minutes, turn one off. Enter the room. One will be on, that's the on switch. One will be off and cold - that the switch you didn't touch. One will be off and hot - that's the one you just turned back off before entering.
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#86667
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Other altered works
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86667/action/topic#86667
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Video games don't really fall under the same category. I mean, you've got games like Street Fighter 2 in which there were several games released under that title (SF2, SF2CE, SF2T, SSF2, SSF2T... etc) and then after that, you've got different versions per platform... Arcade, PC, SNES, MegaDrive (Genesis), etc. You have games that were released with better graphics - King's Quest V, Monkey Island 1 PC, Super Mario Bros 1-3 SNES.

It is unlikely you can consider such games altered, since on their original platforms in their original versions, they were never altered. And remember that not all games came initially on only one platform, so there would never be a truly "pure" version of that game.
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#86634
Topic
Riddles
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86634/action/topic#86634
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Originally posted by: maddog00
I'm going to throw a couple into the mix. I realize its not my turn, but I got compliments on my last one.

What English word can have 4 of its 5 letters removed and still retain it's original pronunciation?
Easy. Queue.
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A woman goes into a hardware store to buy something for her house. When asked the price, the clerk replies, "the price of one is twelve cents, the price of forty-four is twenty-four cents, and the price a hundred and forty-four is thirty-six cents. What does the woman want to buy?
Nails? The question is left too open.
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#86633
Topic
HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86633/action/topic#86633
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
IT'S NOT THE DVD THAT IS CAUSING THE PAUSE. IT'S THE PLAYER. SOME PLAYERS DON'T HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE DUAL LAYER CHANGE. SOME DO. KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BEFORE YOU POST.
Dude, I'm not talking about the layer change, I'm talking about problems associated with: burning to lower-quality DVD-R's (even if they're good quality discs), problems associated with disc-rot (I returned a disc to the publisher due to rot and they never sent me a replacement, in the end I sent them a letter complaining about it and they eventually sent me a replacement - which by law they were required to do, and I might add that the title had become OOP), glue-setting (I'm convinced the glue had not set on the two copies of the same title I was forced to return to the store), labelling discs with stickers. Scratches, smudge-marks, dust etc. To talk about the two discs I had to return - they both stopped at the same point in the movie (a movie I had not previously seen!) The manager from the store I bought it said he'd had more than 20 returns from that product!

I eventually got a working copy from another store. Their instore-players had no problem playing the poor quality discs, but if you looked at them you could see the glue had not set - the manager agreed. It was one of those things that wouldn't effect every DVD-player, however the quality was still unacceptable.

-edit- and just so you know that it wasn't just my DVD-player, I tested the discs and they paused in my computer at the same points. The drive I was using was a 2-month old LiteOn DVD Burner.
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#86518
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HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86518/action/topic#86518
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Jay, your argument is too complicated. When you record on DVD-R you often face the problems of a pausing during playback, this also occurs with a lot of commercial discs, especially those which have been poorly pressed. I went through two copies of one DVD I bought before I got a third, working copy of it. D-VHS does not have that problem, consumers can watch a pause-free playback, guaranteed. The potential of the format is huge. If it is marketed correctly, I do believe the market would adopt it over Blu-Ray/HD-DVD.

I'm not arguing that it's a better format, no ... just that it's a more consumer-friendly format, one that will satisfy more consumers.
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#86511
Topic
Riddles
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86511/action/topic#86511
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Originally posted by: Darth Simon
Well, going off what warbler said. If he gave them a cow and then they split the cows up:

1/2 = 9
1/3 = 6
1/9 = 2

thats 17 cows, and the neighbor keeps his cow.

-Darth Simon
Correct. The neighbour lent them his cow, and took it back with him when he was done. Warbler you only made two small errors, I mean you had the right answer. Anyhow I guess darth simon posts the next riddle.
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#86217
Topic
HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86217/action/topic#86217
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Originally posted by: Darth Simon
I think its more than letting the market tell you what they want to buy.
Really? Well Coca-Cola has flunked products by just expecting the market to adopt them. You have to let the market tell you when they're ready for a new format. It's too soon after DVD to dive into a new format, especially if it's only really going to rivial the quality of the already-available D-VHS (which is uncompressed, and four times the resolution of DVD - so current DVD's hold one tenth the digital data that D-VHS does, which is dedicated just to the movie quality, whereas these new disc formats are just scarping 50Gig). The size increase isn't significant enough. It is for consoles to guarantee their developers they'll have more room then they'll ever need - but for a home-video format it's useless.

I mean, it's only just recently become available at a reasonable price for consumers to ger DVD-recorders. D-VHS on the other hand never faced that problem, you can record onto exactly the same High-Definition commercial quality tape straight from the D-VCR, whereas DVD only lets you record onto DVD-R/RAM which is not the same thing as a pressed disc. Consumers can go back to simply recording on tapes - where they can continue recording on the same tape, record record record - don't have to worry about damage, sure some visible damage may occur, but it's not going to pause the playback or anything like that, it'll still play-through.

No, JVC should be able to push D-VHS over the upcoming disc formats anyway.
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#86210
Topic
Riddles
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86210/action/topic#86210
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An old farmer died and left 17 cows to his three sons. In his will, the farmer stated that his oldest son should get 1/2, his middle son should get 1/3, and his youngest son should get 1/9 of all the cows. The sons, who did not want to end up with half cows, sat for days trying to figure out how many cows each of them should get.
One day, their neighbour came by to see how they were doing after their father's death. The three sons told him their problem. After thinking for a while, the neighbour said: "I'll be right back!" He went away, and when he came back, the three sons could divide the cows according to their father's will, and in such a way that each of them got a whole number of cows.

What was the neighbour's solution?
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#86204
Topic
Riddles
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86204/action/topic#86204
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Originally posted by: Warbler
ok here's one:

Smith gave a hotel clerk $15 for his cleaning bill. The clerk discovered he had overcharged and sent a bellboy to Smith's room with five $1 bills. The dshonest bellboy gave three to Smith, keeping two for himself. Smith has now paid $12. The bellboy has acquired $2. This accounts for $14. Where is the missing dollar?
We'll track the money through the question, thus:
Smith $15 -->
Smith $0, Hotel Clerk $15 -->
Smith $0, Hotel Clerk $10, Bellboy $5 -->
Smith $3, Hotel Clerk $10, Bellboy $2.

There is no missing dollar. "Smith has now paid $12. The bellboy has acquired $2. This accounts for $14." Incorrect, Smith paid $10 and the bellboy acquired $2, accounting for $12, the other $3 is back in Smith's pocket.
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#86050
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Beautiful Women
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86050/action/topic#86050
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I have an idea, everyone buys a digital camera, and shoots for say... two weeks. Then they compile their list of beauties that they found and present it here (only entries with names can be accepted). So you can't just photograph anyone, you have to get their name. Cause I'd need money to buy a digital camera.. but what thinks everyone?
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#86049
Topic
HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86049/action/topic#86049
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Originally posted by: Patrick R.
I don't own an Xbox or PS2, but it does seem like the Xbox is doing a good job in catching up with PS2 in my opinion. The only things that make the PS2 more attractive to me is the ability to play PS1 games and some of the franchises like Final Fantasy.
The X-Box has gameplay over the PS2, of the three consoles GC XBox and PS2, PS2 has the worst gameplay. Slowest loading times, worst textures. X-Box is just too damn big for a start. From the site you provided:

"Do you think HD-DVD has an advantage of having 'DVD' still in the title for people to associate with?"

Wrong. Who buys "DIGITAL VHS"? But it still has the well-established VHS in the title. It's redundant. If it's redundant, move on.

"This is not something we have thought about at this point. To date, we have not seen any interest in a separate format for game consoles."

Well, let's go back to when consoles used the same audio-tapes for data storage... then they went to digital cartridges, then they went to CD's, and Sega used 1G CD's which could not be read in standard CD drives. Then came DVD for xbox and ps2 while GC uses custom 8-cm DVD's.

Gosh what a load of rubbish. And besides, 1.5Gig which is what the GC disc provides is still plenty for games today. When DVD's were first coming out I was told every PC game released would come on DVD. What a load of crock, they're still using CD's today. The amount of data storage is not the issue with consoles. What is is the practicality. The size, gameplay, enjoyability - durability and the fun. And when pigs fly I will buy a tray-loading console.
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#86048
Topic
HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86048/action/topic#86048
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TR-47 I agree with you. Let me share a small secret of marketing with you, when you present your product for the market you need to let the market tell you what product they want to buy. You can not sell a product by developing it and assuming the market will adopt it.

Also, I don't believe you need a red laser at all to read DVD's/CD's? I was under the impression the blue laser can be used to read the pits just as well, if not better than the red lasers in use today... I'm 90% sure of it actually.
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#86045
Topic
a question for DVD experts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86045/action/topic#86045
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Actually, I'll just explain macrovision quickly - it's not part of the signal it's not encoded in the video like it was on VHS. Rather, there are "flags" which instruct the player to enable its macrovision chip/circuit. It's a terrible system really. So, when you create a back-up on the PC those flags are simply copied over, or removed depending on the settings of your program, it has nothing to do with encryption.
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#86043
Topic
a question for DVD experts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86043/action/topic#86043
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
That's because the US, Australia, the UK and Japan are all signatories to the WIPO treaties, and therefore have to have copyright laws that are in line with the treaties.
Not really, I mean they do let us have a legal right to back-up software, remember. I personally think that right should be protected and software companies which try to take it away from us by employing such copy-protections methods as SafeDisc should be prosecuted for interfering with the consumer's legal rights. Let me give you an example, it is illegal for a Lawyer to refuse to represent me in court. Illegal. This is because I have a legal right to legal representation, therefore they are under legal obligation to represent me in court if I want them too.

Now lawyers could get away with suggesting other firms, etc - but if I stick to my guns and they say "no I will not represent you" then that lawyer has interfered with my legal rights, and I could prosecute him for it. I think that software protection should be handled the same way, I have a legal right to back-ups there, if someone tries to prevent me from exercising that right they should be liable.

Anyhow back to the original question, cubebox, there may have been an error reading the original DVD that was copied. You could try cleaning the disc and starting again. Macrovision does not apply to PC copying, CSS encryption prevents you from copying the files off the disc in the first place, the fact that you copied them proves either there was no CSS or that it was cracked.
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#85998
Topic
a question for DVD experts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/85998/action/topic#85998
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Thankyou TR-47, for the US law. British law does not allow for copying for back-ups, Australian law does not either. That isn't to say acceptable use has been prosecuted here, however it is illegal to make back-ups of CD's (even onto MP3 players) and DVD's. In Australia you are allowed to make a back-up copy of software. I can't believe so many people think it's their legal right to make back-ups, when it is actually illegal. With that said, I can buy a software program which employees a copy-protection system, such as SafeDisc, and using my CD burner create a CD-R copy copying the safe-disc data (which is not really data, but we'll call it that anyway) so that my CD-R behaves in the same way as the original CD; and that is not illegal.