DVD Chips To Thwart Dreaded Piracy, Me Beauties September 19, 2006
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Those pesky pirates eh? All eye-patches and rum and bootlegged copies of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest down the local pub car park. Well now, there’s a evil plan to stop all of that involving radio transmitter chips.
The chips will be embedded in movie discs and used by studios to track their location, while DVD players (in the future, Jim lad) will be able to read the chip and decide not to play it if it’s in the wrong geographical region. Damn, there goes half my collection already.
The chip will mean players will also refuse to play copied discs (damn - there goes the other half). The Chip-On-Disc (COD) technology is being worked on by U-Tech, part of Ritek, which makes a lot of the discs for the big movie houses.
Still, it’s a little bit like bolting the gate after the man-eating T-Rex has done a runner. There’s also the question about how it will be implemented with HD DVD and Blu-ray – both of which use an anti-piracy technology called AACS?
Methinks, ye olde pirates will control the seas for a few years yet.
Editor and Contributor | Martin Lynch
Contributor | Tamlin Magee
Comments
How appropriate- September 19th Is International Talk like a pirate day, me'harties
Arrrrrrrrrg ; )
this is a great idea for the people that fully endorse the movies and buy them although i think they should get rid of this region codeing anyway because i like to be able to buy dvd's from diffrent countrys like china because i love alot of there classic martial arts films where some of them ever get released over here and i dont really want to be buying 2 dvd players to watch them
although i can see what will happen if/when they do bring this out you know that like in the console world someone will invent a mod chip for the DVD players to bypass this COD thing
anyway thats my rant over
thx for reading :)