quality of movies

hi guys i was in the pub the other nite and this lad walked in with bag full of copied movies which r on the cinema at the moment, he was selling them for like 2 pound each my mate bought a few of him and the quality was pretty impressive not only was the quality gud but it had dvd menu on it too option for subtitles etc etc like a real dvd, i wont lie i have downloaded movies in the past on limewire mirc etc but wot i wanted to know is how come this guys movies were such gud quality? where does he get em from? surely there different movies to wot we download,can anyone explain?

thanks guys

 

You can get films off most P2P apps like Bit Torrent, E-mule, bear share etc. Some films are recorded by a camcorder but they're normally not very good in quality. Others maybe a version stolen from the movie studio. I don't quite know how they are obtained but as you know it's illegal downloading them and selling them will result in a hefty fine or jail sentence if caught.

 

The reason some pirate DVDs are good quality is because some movies are out to buy (retail) at places in the world like America when in certain places like the UK they might have just got to the cinema.

 

True, but there are some films released the same time in Britain and America. Wonder how those are obtained.

 

groups that have access to a cinema and to a Telecine machine usually produce better quality by doing a digital copy of the reel (which can be almost the same quality as a DVD if the machine is good), screeners are usually obtained for people that work in video shops. Sometimes DVDs are even stolen from the production lines were there getting made for release.

There's a good FAQ about different sources at vcdquality

hxxp://www.vcdquality.com/index.php?page=faq#4

 

Thanks for the info p4_tt. BTW do you know how music albums are obtained and put on the net weeks before their release date.

 

Most of the time there stolen from production lines by employees when there getting made.

 

Cheers. Always wondered how this occured.

 

So P4_tt which production company do you *cough* 'borrow' movies from j/k. I've wondered about this as well and I pretty much had similar thoughts to Weazel. Your response clarified it quite well.

 

Lol it's something i would never be part of, i like my freedom