First pirated HD DVD movie hits BitTorrent

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 16 Jan 2007, 19:39

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070115-8622.html

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 16 Jan 2007, 23:59

Not exactly world breaking news this is it? I'm only surprised it took so long!
I love the name of the site though ARS technica, someone should tell them it's spelt with an e!

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 17 Jan 2007, 07:26

Can't connect to the tracker.
Seems it's been taken down.

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 17 Jan 2007, 08:42

I am most definitely NOT attempting to get Oldboy HD-DVD from Share.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 17 Jan 2007, 17:38

tom2681 wrote:Seems it's been taken down.

Is your PC capable of playing 1080p?

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 17 Jan 2007, 20:04

Is your PC capable of playing 1080p?

When I overclock it by 25%, yes.

I've got a 2,2 ghz CPU.
1080p only plays smoothly at 2,75 ghz.

gojensen · Post by **gojensen** » 18 Jan 2007, 09:47

Holy crap. :-/ I had hopes that my Core Duo 1.87GHz would be able to but I guess not eh?

BTW, I'm not sure Serenity was the first... I spotted several HD rips that popped up at about the same time...

slasher13 · Post by **slasher13** » 18 Jan 2007, 11:04

I've noticed HD Channel ripped, like Batman Begins and Revenge of the Sith being ripped from HD channels and put on divx.... Some are around 2.5 while other will be 6 gig

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 18 Jan 2007, 14:35

HD broadcasts are generally pretty compressed from what I've heard. MPEG-4 rips are even more compressed.

Unrealnils · Post by **Unrealnils** » 18 Jan 2007, 17:04

lol hi-def rips it doesnt fit in with i think what most downloaders are after which is quick but good rips of stuff............

I dont think i will bother downloading something like this although i have downloaded loads of hi-def trailer as they do look awesome on my pc

the trailer for 300 is awesome in hi-def

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 18 Jan 2007, 17:13

There does seem to be a big difference in terms of file size. The Star Wars films seem to take about 12% or so of my Sky HD' hard drive, yet Who Framed Roger Rabbit? takes only 7%.

300 in HD does look super sweet

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 18 Jan 2007, 17:56

You've been able to get full transport streams from broadcasts for years. Normally 10-15GB for MPEG2, 7-10 for H.264 (H.264 re-endoes are genrally smaller to fit on single layer DVD).

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 Jan 2007, 22:40

slasher13 wrote:I've noticed HD Channel ripped, like Batman Begins and Revenge of the Sith being ripped from HD channels and put on divx.... Some are around 2.5 while other will be 6 gig

Maybe Gojensen has seen some prior but the point here is this is the first HD Disc Rip.

20Gb would seem a bit low but about right. Especially if they didn't bother with extras, which considering the ripping method seems crude I could easily believe. It's not like DVDs often use all the available space.

gojensen · Post by **gojensen** » 22 Jan 2007, 09:52

Uhm, I was talking about HD-DVD rips. Not HDTV rips. And crapzors. I was wrong; Serenity was first

Apparently the first rips were indeed movie only, but nobody has been able to play them back smoothly yet... there's something about missing structure files or something. I didn't delve to deeply into it - but I've seen folks reposting menu and disc structures to try and get things running...

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 May 2007, 00:18

Latest AACS revision defeated a week before release -

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... lease.html

Oops.

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 18 May 2007, 05:57

It wasn't surprising, all they had to do was come up with a new workaround. Took mere hours.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 May 2007, 18:12

It's not surprising but is funny