Ultra-high resolution DVDs are unprotected

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New ultra-high resolution DVD movies have been released in Europe without a key form of copy protection technology, New Scientist has learned.

The disks could be seen as the perfect master disk by pirates wishing to make copies of the films. And the discovery comes just as a new report reveals that six out of ten people in the UK illegally copy music and movies.

Sony's Columbia Tristar has put on sale sixteen DVDs that utilise the new Superbit process, including Men in Black and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Columbia says the process offers "the highest resolution (and) the highest standard for audio and video available on DVD".
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[Sorondil]

Too bad that doesn't go for the US also.

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[Yuuko]

Not really interesting...

Superbit is a hoax.
Their high resolution and all crap is fake, since it's just a standard dvd. Independants magazines issued tests about these superbit dvds, and they even found that the movies' size was smaller (ie. more compressed) than the regular edition, while resolution were exactly the same.

Ultra high definition is not for our tommorrow, as we are right now waiting for HD-DVD (not UHD), with a blue ray disc, and with enhanced protections against piracy.