New protection

[Ch3vr0n]

Well it was sarcasm , but still. Even if all 10 have this hole, seriously doubt manufacturers would put a physical defect i a discs let alone a whole set (& the matching batches). Looks like something was lying on the press when they made them discs. Oh and i wasnt being confrontational, i've always been quite frank. It's just who i am

[Clams]

Originally Posted by Ch3vr0n

a punched hole in a disc a new protection? Yeah right, and i'm santa. A damaged disc, that's what it is.

That was rude.

We've bantered here before about the fact that a deliberately damaged disk would be one hell of a strange copy protection.
And the fact that all 10 disks of the set, have the exact same hole - kinda makes one wonder.

I note that it's a small outfit doing this little "experiment".

-W

[sondeterra]

Back in the days of vinyl records, those used in Juke Boxes or found to be bad in quality control would have a hole punched in the label to show they wer not quite up to snuff. I got some inexpensive Sheffield Labs LP's that way.

[parad0x]

Well, that's quite strange. Never seen anything like this before. It really looks like a stain, as if somebody had damaged the disk intentionally.

By the way, what would be really interesting to me: Does it play properly on a standalone DVD Player ?? If so, then the disk doesn't seem to be physically damaged. If not, the whole set of disks could be a production error from the company.

I'm just wondering myself when or if this so-called "protection" will be released in Germany...

Greetings,

parad0x from Germany.

[hoangh]

Sorry for the late reply since I just came back from work.
1) Yes all 10 disc have punched holes on them and they all played fine on stand alone dvd player (no hiccup whatsoever).
2) I tried to rip the dvd's using anydvd rip to img but it stopped at 1%.
, the same go for DVD Shrink, Nero Recode and Imgburn.
3) My sister in law bought the same title from a different store and her set has the same punched hole on all 10 discs like my set.
Based on these above , my conclusion is this is a new kind of protection.
By the way, these discs released by MBC America.

[hoangh]

Hi all,
I just scanned the disc from my sister in law set. See photo.

[therivetman]

Set ignore errors 0 retries

[Clams]

Originally Posted by hoangh

Sorry for the late reply since I just came back from work.
1) Yes all 10 disc have punched holes on them and they all played fine on stand alone dvd player (no hiccup whatsoever).
2) I tried to rip the dvd's using anydvd rip to img but it stopped at 1%.
, the same go for DVD Shrink, Nero Recode and Imgburn.
3) My sister in law bought the same title from a different store and her set has the same punched hole on all 10 discs like my set.
Based on these above , my conclusion is this is a new kind of protection.
By the way, these discs released by MBC America.

What happens if you tell AnyDVD to skip over read errors when ripping to image?

-W

[jpmccusa]

I had a similar problem with an Israeli DVD several years ago and beat it this way: I ripped the disc when it was in an internal drive which wasn't capable of burning DVDs, just CDs. The ripped files worked normally. I went through 3 discs before I stumbled onto this bypass (I won't call it a fix)...all had the same physical feature.

[Clams]

Originally Posted by jpmccusa

I had a similar problem with an Israeli DVD several years ago and beat it this way: I ripped the disc when it was in an internal drive which wasn't capable of burning DVDs, just CDs. The ripped files worked normally. I went through 3 discs before I stumbled onto this bypass (I won't call it a fix)...all had the same physical feature.

I think you just got lucky....

-W