Is there a new DVD disc encryption methord?

Monday, October 18th, 2010 Posted in How to & Trouble Shooting |

1# Q: I have a disc that none of the ripping programs I tried could rip. Is this a new method of encryption?

A: It impossible. There will never be a new encryption on DVDs. We have roughly a 100 million DVD capable devices worldwide, if not more. Now imagine making these superfluous… you simply cannot do that. The point of having a standard is that you can play anything anywhere or it wouldn’t be a standard. The oldest 1st gen DVD players must be able to play every DVD that will ever be released.

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How to make your DVD-ROM region free

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 Posted in DVD Copy & Burn & Play |

How to make your DVD-ROM region free? This is both a technical issue and legal issue. In order to manufacture a DVD drive one has to obtain a license from the DVD CCA (Copy Control Association). The licensing terms state that every drive must support certain mechanisms, among others CSS (Content Scrambling System) and region code. The latter has only become mandatory for DVD-ROM drives starting from the first of January 2000. Since then every DVD-ROM must contain hardware region code which the user can change 5 times, then send back to the manufacturer which can reset that counter 4 times. Before that date most drives did not have any region protection and it was rather easy to circumvent the software DVD player based region code protection by the use of a well know tool: DVD Genie. That region free state was also called as RPC-1. A none codefree DVD-ROM is called RPC-2.

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