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Topic: DTS burn disc question
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Oliver Pasch
Film Handler
Posts: 53
From: Europe
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 07-05-2006 09:57 AM
quote: Jack Ondracek
There's no problem with the copies.
But probably with copyright!
Sorry, this might not be an issue in terretories playing the original language only, but in strange countries such as Germany, dub-sound is a must. dts-discs used to have a conflict with film-piracy as every "pirate" (don't like this term, Johnny Depp might now and then be a pirate, we should be talking of thieves instead) was looking for the dub-sound only (as the picture was already available from the internet, so picture and dub-sound only needed to be married...).
To point this out: dts technically solved the problem with the new "security enhancement" last year, which simple disabled the playback of the discs on a PC using winamp and a special plugin, so discs are useless without the print. But distribution (who doesn't understand anything when it comes to technical stuff) is still afraid of this and doesn't support the format any longer, well, only one major studio does.
Discussing a "dts burn disc question" like the previous posts in this forum doesn't seem very helpful at all. If you don't have enough discs (e. g. to play interlock), ask dts directly and they will send you another set!
Oliver
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Charles Greenlee
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 801
From: Savannah, Ga, U.S.
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted 07-05-2006 08:53 PM
If your drives support RW, or as the ones we have, as it turns out, are just SCSI cd burners, you may be able to burn to an RW. That way you can change out as needed without wasting any discs. Why on earth did they install burners in a system that will only ever read discs? Anyhow, this option will work only if you have a unit with drives capable of reading RWs, which either means newer drive, or the burners. I'd make temporary copies of the CD to use for the day/weeked, but still call DTS for the missing discs. Don't know that I'd mentioned you copied the discs, even if they look the other way, it'd at the very least be bad form. If the RW's don't work out, nothing lost but the time it took to make the copy, just have to settle for cd-R's.
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John Hawkinson
Film God
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From: Cambridge, MA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 07-07-2006 12:22 AM
Ryan asked, "Anybody ever consider a torrent based system of DTS disc iso sharing?"
This is a bad idea, both technically and politically. Even talking about it in a forum like this is likely to annoy people.
- Politically, DTS and the studios get very upset when they hear about people proposing making discs accessible on the Internet. It is one thing for theatres with legitimate bookings to make emergency copies of discs from each other to ensure there is DTS for a show. The companies don't want to sanction that, but they understand your heart is in the right place.
Their larger concern is that distribution of discs over the Internet will allow unauthorized individuals to get access to motion picture soundtracks.
In today's environment, with the industry so concerned about piracy, it becomes even more important for the studios to avoid anything that might even give the appearance of making piracy easier (and yes, soundtracks are an issue for piracy).
If DTS and studios were to permit electronic distribution of DTS discs, they would want to centrally control it, e.g. via a secure web site. (Of course, this has been proposed to them many times and they have declined, still not feeling that it is sufficient secure). - Technically speaking, BitTorrent works by having the users who are downloading a given file also upload portions of it to other users at the same time. Generally, the only time someone is uploading a file is when they are also downloading that same file. As a result, BitTorrent doesn't make much sense for something like DTS discs where they would only be infrequently downloaded, and it would be rare to have multiple people downloading the same disc at the same time.
The other advantage of BitTorrent is to reduce the bandwidth load on a central server. But given the small number of people who have legitimate need to download DTS discs (the ones whose discs didn't show up for a particular engagement, particularly a non-break opening), it's hard to imagine a central server getting overloaded.
--jhawk
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