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Pirates Selling Fake Blu-ray Movies on DVDs
Created 11/18/2008 - 3:54pm

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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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