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Re: Can "pirates" easily digitize video outputs?

The answer is yes. I am not a pirate, but I have an older prosumer video capture card that I purchased several years ago in the $500 range, and it is not affected by copy protection schemes coming out of the analog outputs from either a VHS or DVD player. Digitizing a DVD through AD conversion keeps the video quality intact much as it would keep the audio quality intact. However, there is little point to doing things in this old fashioned method. A common $50 DVD computer drive can flawlessly copy an entire DVD to a hard drive in 15 minutes, and be played off the hard drive just as if the actual DVD disc was being played, menus and all.


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  • Re: Can "pirates" easily digitize video outputs? - Adriel 00:58:42 06/20/02 (0)


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