Allodoxaphobia <bit-bucket@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> On 28 Jun 2008 19:24:03 GMT, ms wrote:
>>
>> There is nothing wrong with the small TV monitor, or the connections
>> as it plays other movie dvd's fine. As in my OP, I was playing a dvd,
>> not using a VCR tape recorded copy or anything else.
>>
>> After wa****ng, the movie looks the same, from the opening credits
>> screen. the movie is alternately light and darker. The initial 20th
>> Cen. Fox video and no copy screens are perfectly stable, only every
>> movie screen is a problem.
>>
>> This is the usual commercial dvd, "20th Cent Studio Classics, etc. ".
>>
>> But the film quality sure looks just as you described.
>>
>> A comment on above?
>
> Sure. It's a pirated movie. The "initial 20th Cen. Fox video and no
> copy screens are perfectly stable" because _that_ section of video can
> be copied from _any_ valid DVD (ergo: Good quality) -- then the
> pirated contents are spliced on past that (ispso facto: Crappy
> quality.)
>
> IIRC, way back in your OP you memtioned you bought it at either a yard
> sale or flea market -- the favored outlet for pirated material in
> countries where pirated and counterfeit items are more at risk in
> store front slaes.
>
I live in Oregon, a quiet sales location, not Hong Kong.
The package had several Fox sales brochures included, so I think it is
original. Very likely the garage sale seller bought it new at a local dept
store, etc. I know there are sales where thousands of copies are sold-
that
wasn't this case, I usually see just 5-10 dvd's they are done watching.
So it is seems unlikely IMO this dvd is pirated. Just defective as PeterD
indicated. Still a first in my experience that they make a commercial dvd
this way.
ms
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