Future Useage Of My A1 HD DVD Player ?

I bought my HD-A1 back when the future looked bright red. Today, things look rather blue. So I started thinking about the possible benefits of my plunge into the Hi-Def market even though the better format and the format not associated with $ony looks to be the loser. First, i have an excellent upconverting player. Second, I was thinking that one day i might be able to back up my standard DVDs to blank HD DVD media and then watch them on my A1. Perhaps even 3 or 4 SD DVDs on 1 HD disc. Im wondering if i were to rent BD movies could I copy them on my PC and burn them on to HD DVD media.

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Im wondering if i were to rent BD movies could I copy them on my PC and burn them on to HD DVD media.

These people can answer your questions. Their phone number is (914) 333-8892.

Or you can write to them at:

Motion Picture Association of America
Anti-Piracy Office
200 White Plains Road 1st Floor
Tarrytown, NY 10591

Good luck!

Shuttermaker said -

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"I'm wondering if i were to rent BD movies could I copy them on my PC and burn them on to HD DVD media."

NOT LEGALLY. You would be breaking the law. View info on the following links...

DMCA - Digital Millennium Copyright Act

HDCP - High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection

On a less serious note, do you remember an early scene from the movie STRIPES - "Have you ever been convicted of... etc" ~ and Bill Murray's character replies: "No, never convicted."

-LH (The Loverboy)
~ HI-DEF DUAL FORMAT SUPPORTER ~

jeez, thanks mom and dad! How about laying off the officer suck-up duty? Who cares about legality? He owns it, he does what he wants with it, as long as he owns the original and doesnt sell it. I dont give two plops what MPAA says since they're corporate, and I don't listen to a business telling me what to do with what I buy. They can come a get me if they want, I'll fight them to my dying breath.

Then again, I am a bit of a socialist and anarchist. Maybe I'm not the best person to advise on this. :lol I'd overthrow the government tomorrow if the opportinity was there.

JServo, the guy is talking about illegally copying the disks he rents. Do try to keep up. This isn't just an illegal protection violation. A post on a thread even remotely suggesting this as a possibility on any other website would be deleted immediately because of possible liability issues.

If you were anywhere NEAR creating things and doing hard work and hope to get paid for such efforts, would you not be pissed that someone was paying a low rental fee and stealing your work permanently instead of buying it instead? Ripping people off might be fine to you, but not to me - and not to the courts either. Besides, if everyone was doing what the OP suggested, the only movie you'd see would be your own home movies, since it would not be worth it for anyone else to make one since most are happy to just break even as it is.

[Post edited by Skyhawk on Feb 15, 2008]

Oh yea Shutter,
don't forget about the HUGE sale that will hopefully come and how much you can update your HD collection before you continue to buy SD DVD.

That's my plan.

It's not illegal to make a copy of a dvd or CD you own. We had MP3 players long before legal downloads. Where thay all illegal?

I understand the legalities of what you thought i meant. But, if i have an HD DVD player and the movie is only available in the BD format, and i want to watch the movie in HD, then i feel i have the right to rent the movie....render it useable...and then watch that movie? I dont consider that stealing copyrighted material. Ive paid the asking price for said rental.

Shuttermaker,

It's one thing to make an archival backup of something you own. It's quite another to illegally copy something you don't own, no matter what your rationalization.

John

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It's not illegal to make a copy of a dvd or CD you own

Illegal for DVD, but not for (the vast majority) of CDs. If you guys down there don't like it, then please learn about your own freakin' laws first, and perhaps then you'll be in a position to change them.