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Movie buffs can now download to DVDs
Legal restrictions on burning movies bought from online services to commercial DVD format have been relaxed.
The real fun in watching a movie has always been when viewing it on a big screen. Though the booming home video market and large screen televisions have brought big cinema right into our living room, non-mainstream movies have always been hard to get. Movie downloads on the Internet gave us more choice, but with a catch – you had to watch it on your monitor, as it was legally restricted from burning them to DVDs.
Thankfully, commercial video download sites, like CinemaNow and the iTunes Store, will soon have the option of allowing customers to burn copies of movies to DVDs (that will playback in standard DVD players). All this thanks to an amendment approved by DVD Copy Control Association, which saw the futility in being finicky about copyright protection. This was brought on because the CCS encryption system, which ‘protected’ the commercial DVD format against copying, has been cracked since 1999 and found no longer effective.
Although don't celebrate just yet. DVD-R support for CSS will require special discs, and not all existing DVD burners will work with it either. If firmware updates (that's the software that runs your hardware) cannot enable most DVD burners to burn CSS-supporting discs, and if the special discs are not price-competitive, all of this will be for naught.
[ Via arstechnica ]
Thankfully, commercial video download sites, like CinemaNow and the iTunes Store, will soon have the option of allowing customers to burn copies of movies to DVDs (that will playback in standard DVD players). All this thanks to an amendment approved by DVD Copy Control Association, which saw the futility in being finicky about copyright protection. This was brought on because the CCS encryption system, which ‘protected’ the commercial DVD format against copying, has been cracked since 1999 and found no longer effective.
Although don't celebrate just yet. DVD-R support for CSS will require special discs, and not all existing DVD burners will work with it either. If firmware updates (that's the software that runs your hardware) cannot enable most DVD burners to burn CSS-supporting discs, and if the special discs are not price-competitive, all of this will be for naught.
[ Via arstechnica ]
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