Posted by AZ Nomad on 03/22/07 14:56

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:59:05 GMT, Stuart <stuart€@whodunnit8.com> wrote:



>"Mark W" <s@o> wrote in message
>news:46024bb7$1_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com...
>>
>> I'm sure there are some 'audiophile' types who are able to tell the
>> difference between a factory pressed DVD and a copy burned on a recordable
>> disc.

>The reality in the digital domain is you don't make 'a copy' you simply
>replicate the original. So if I make a 'copy' of a CD audio disc it is not
>going to suffer any audio quality in the same sense as making a copy of a
>copy of a copy of a tape in the analog domain. You can get accumulated
>digital artefacts - I mention that before the pedants chime in - but these
>are not common unless you are using crappy gear and crappy discs.


You can't make a bit copy of a DVD that has been encrypted. It will not
play. To copy a DVD, it must be remastered. To make matters worse, although
copies can be made with bit-identical copies of the video files, most copies
are made with the data compressed further in order to fit on a single layer
blank.

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