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FYI: I'm double posting this from the Video forum because I realized it really should have been here.
I've been looking forever for a dvd of a British sf movie called 'Quartermass and the Pit' (released in the U.S. as 'Five Million Years to Earth).
I found a place in Vermont who sold me a copy. But the disc doesn't look like ANY dvd I've ever seen. It looks kind of purple, like a blank disc you buy at Staples to burn.
The movie doesn't play properly. It is not smooth. For example if someone is walking across a room you see it sort of 'skip' like it's missing frames. Gave me a migraine in about ten minutes and I had to stop watching.
So what's up with this purple disc? It's on the left, a regular disc is on the right. I talked to a guy at Oppo (I have one of their players) and he told me he had NEVER seen a manufactured dvd look like this. I'm thinking I've finally seen a 'counterfeit' disc.
"Familiarity breeds contempt, and children."
-Mark Twain
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Don't be so dense. You know damn good and well that the one on the left is a DVD-R disc...
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True, how could somebody not know it's a copy?
But there are major studios that do sell made-on-demand DVDs, and they are not cheap. Not cheap because demand is so small they don't mass-produce them so they have to charge more to recoup master costs etc. (OK, really it's profit). Anybody who bought a legitimate MOD DVD would definitely know because of its HIGH, not low, cost.
Definitely the one on the left has the colorings of a DVD-R. And any of us can use our personal computers to burn DVD's* and then use our ink jet photo printers to print out nice looking DVD labels.
Or I could be all wet. It just doesn't look normal for a movie industry product.
-Steve
* Unless the source material were to be copy protected....
Reminds me of an award winner I got off Half.com several years ago. Across the screen was something like: "For Academy Members Only" or something like that. I wrote the seller back saying, "Hey, it says not to sell this." She wrote back would I like half my money back. Those Raj Refugees just don't get it sometimes.
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Kinda like "Forbidden Planet" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still." - I'm simply glued to my seat & forced to watch when they come on. :)
I wish SAE would release it on blu ray.
They're about to release blu rays of 'First Men in the Moon' and 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'. I have both on order.
I just wish I'd bought their 'Mysterious Island blu ray - it's going for $150 now!
"Familiarity breeds contempt, and children."
-Mark Twain
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In searching for out-of-print films on disc on Amazon, I've found a few listings that say they "make" the disc when the order is placed. Of course they don't describe the "source" print which is probably an old vhs tape. I think my copy of The Velvet Vampire was "made"/copied when I ordered it. This "process" reminds me of the days when I used to order "import" movies on vhs. Most were copied from laser discs and some were just recordings of foreign tv broadcasts of the movies. Others might have been dubs of European or Asian-only vhs releases. If it's out of print or was never released in your region, it's probably been "burned" from an old vhs tape.
I don't know if this makes it counterfeit/illegal, but my guess would be that it is. I guess it's also conceivable that someone could own a license for a film and make their own copies for sale rather than manufacturing them?
Might be a DVD-R, I have a similar one of Across the Universe.
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