Technology that prevents people from copying DVDs to videotape has disappeared from some versions of Warner Bros.' "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," raising new questions about Hollywood's anti ...

BRUSSELS -- A court in Finland has ruled that the Content Scrambling System (CSS) computer code, which unlocks DVD movies, is "ineffective" as a form of digital rights management (DRM). By Leo ...

HD-DVD Content Protection already hacked? muslix64 believes so! Ever since the next generation high definition movie formats were announced, consumers have been up in arms about the proposed content ...

Macrovision on Tuesday released a new DVD copy-protection technology in hopes of substantially broadening its role in Hollywood's antipiracy effort. The content-protection company is pointing to the ...

Something I'm wondering, does anyone know if DVD structual protection mechanisms (i.e. invalid sectors) make a disk more susceptible to errors? the reason I'm thinking this is that isn't a DVD's ECC ...

DVDs, no matter how carefully they’re stored, are deteriorating. Very quickly. Even the optical drive needed to watch DVDs is now obsolete on Macs. But once the DVDs are converted into digital files ...

Who is still buying DVDs? Surely collectors are. A hard copy is always tempting for collectors. Also, old-fashioned DVD serves you well when movies are hard to find or even not available online on ...