How to copy HD DVD and Blu-ray movies

[Ilya]

This is funny! You know how HD DVD and Blu-ray are supposed to have a more advanced copy protection?
Guess what?!! German CT Magazine has found a very simple and straightforward way of copying HD image off both Blu-ray and HD DVD without any quality loss!
Frame-by-frame using Print Screen function!
They have confirmed that this works on both Blu-ray Sony Vaio VGC-RC 204 and the HD DVD Toshiba Qosmio G30 notebook.
Of course it's not a very practical approach, but it illustrates a point that there is no such thing as bullet-proof copy protection!

(Here is an automatic translation from German by Google.)

 

[iammike]

I'm thinking the audio quality may still need some work.

 

[T2k]

This is funny! You know that HD DVD and Blu-ray are supposed to have a more advanced copy protection?
Guess what?!! German CT Magazine has found a very simple and straightforward way of copying HD image off both Blu-ray and HD DVD without any quality loss!
Frame-by-frame using Print Screen function!
They have confirmed that this works on both Blu-ray Sony Vaio VGC-RC 204 and the HD DVD Toshiba Qosmio G30 notebook.
Of course it's not a very practical approach, but it illustrates a point that there is no such thing as bullet-proof copy protection!

(Here is an automatic translation from German by Google.)

Their approach may not be practical but this means a better framegrabber can do the trick easily. :up

 

[vurbano]

Its only a matter of time

 

[CochiseGuy]

Its only a matter of time

Hmmm, interesting. I know no "hack talk" is permitted here (for good reasons!:up ), but speaking theoretically -

As I understand it, the DVD copy protection code was actually never "broken", the guy who posted the DVD copy protectiohn key on the internet actually found a set of keys?

I assume HD-DVD & Blu-Ray will be more careful about leaving the keys lying around. But, yes, it's probably just a matter of time . . . .

 

[T2k]

As I understand it, the DVD copy protection code was actually never "broken", the guy who posted the DVD copy protectiohn key on the internet actually found a set of keys?

No - he wrote the first fully working decryption program called DeCSS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

 

[dfergie]

It didn't take long: Intervideo's WinDVD 7.5 B41.071 no longer has the screenshot option when playing HD DVDs (it remains available when playing Blu-ray discs). That's what we call progress: less features Source