smashingly
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Hi,
I work on a luxury yacht as the AV/IT guy. We have on board currently a large media mogul who runs one or two movie studios. He gets a lot of pre-release "for your consideration" type Academy screener DVDs, for review, promo, awards judging etc. The problem is that almost none of them will import into his Kaleidescape system at his residence. He's asked me about it and given me a bag of these DVDs to test on our K system on board - same issue here... 99% of the time, you put in the disc and it doesn't even acknowledge that there's a disc in there. The other 1% of the time the disc name may be recognised but the system will fail import saying "DVD Cannot be imported" on the web admin Import page. These DVDs play fine on any player, most of them aren't region-coded.
Obviously it's frustrating for a producer to not be able to put these on his system. I'm just wondering if there's a flag on these DVDs which the movie studio sets, which prevents systems like Kaleidescape from importing (or even recognising that there's a disc there). ??
I've emailed Kaleidescape support about this but received no response yet. Obviously it's unfair that this guy does physically possess the discs, but can't load them into his K system.
I can see the logic of content owners/producers wanting to prevent pre-release screeners from ever reaching the public, and I support their right to do so (besides, they're all watermarked with my boss's initials in the top right corner of the screen, in some cases in the centre of the picture, along with 'for your consideration only' type messages). But in this case it's a legitimate use of the system and technically speaking I can't figure out how this is happening. There does not appear to be any hardcore copy protection on the discs - as a test, I effortlessly ripped one earlier, reburned it to DVD-R and happily imported it into our K system. No fake bad sectors, no RCE, etc. (and no, rip then re-burn isn't a solution the owner is willing to entertain, he wants it to be plug 'n' play, the way Kaleidescape is designed to be...)
Anyone have any experience of this? Any suggestions?
thx in advance.....
I work on a luxury yacht as the AV/IT guy. We have on board currently a large media mogul who runs one or two movie studios. He gets a lot of pre-release "for your consideration" type Academy screener DVDs, for review, promo, awards judging etc. The problem is that almost none of them will import into his Kaleidescape system at his residence. He's asked me about it and given me a bag of these DVDs to test on our K system on board - same issue here... 99% of the time, you put in the disc and it doesn't even acknowledge that there's a disc in there. The other 1% of the time the disc name may be recognised but the system will fail import saying "DVD Cannot be imported" on the web admin Import page. These DVDs play fine on any player, most of them aren't region-coded.
Obviously it's frustrating for a producer to not be able to put these on his system. I'm just wondering if there's a flag on these DVDs which the movie studio sets, which prevents systems like Kaleidescape from importing (or even recognising that there's a disc there). ??
I've emailed Kaleidescape support about this but received no response yet. Obviously it's unfair that this guy does physically possess the discs, but can't load them into his K system.
I can see the logic of content owners/producers wanting to prevent pre-release screeners from ever reaching the public, and I support their right to do so (besides, they're all watermarked with my boss's initials in the top right corner of the screen, in some cases in the centre of the picture, along with 'for your consideration only' type messages). But in this case it's a legitimate use of the system and technically speaking I can't figure out how this is happening. There does not appear to be any hardcore copy protection on the discs - as a test, I effortlessly ripped one earlier, reburned it to DVD-R and happily imported it into our K system. No fake bad sectors, no RCE, etc. (and no, rip then re-burn isn't a solution the owner is willing to entertain, he wants it to be plug 'n' play, the way Kaleidescape is designed to be...)
Anyone have any experience of this? Any suggestions?
thx in advance.....
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