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Pirates Selling Fake Blu-ray Movies on DVDs

Posted 11/18/08 at 05:54:44 PM  by Andy Salisbury

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It’s an all to common story; boy gets Blu-ray player, boy wants Blu-ray movies, boy doesn’t want to pay full price for said movies so boy goes to China to snag bootlegs – we’ve all been there. But should you find yourself caught in this conundrum wait a moment before you do anything. Those fancy new Blu-ray movies you just got could very well be DVDs.

High-end movie pirates in China are ripping the legitimate Blu-ray movies (which use 1,080 lines of resolution) and then burning them onto writeable DVDs (which only support 720 lines of resolution). The swindlers are reportedly making roughly $7 a pop per movie.

Reports say none of the movies have made their way out of China yet.

 

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TAGS: Blu-ray, dvd, pirates, china
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avatarUh....

Submitted by dorkknight on Mon, 11/24/2008 - 12:03am

"Reports say none of the movies have made their way out of China yet."

I see your reports and raise you what I've seen all over China Town in Toronto...  Shops selling bootleg BDs on DVDs have been around for at least several months.  Then again, I guess that could still be considered as not making their way out of China...

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Submitted by hades_2100 on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 12:37am

"Reports say none of the movies have made their way out of China yet." ... except via the Internet.

 "... writeable DVDs (which only support 720 lines of resolution)."   You can easily download 1080 AVCHD content (which these DVDs are) which fits onto a dual-layer DVD.

 

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