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In Reply to: Can "pirates" easily digitize video outputs? posted by High-end Dreamer on June 15, 2002 at 10:52:19:
Yes, such ADCs exist. And as in audio, quality varies. If a bootlegger were to want to copy DVD material, they usually don't use an ADC though. In that case, they normally rip the bits to the hard disc and re-encode for whatever the target format is. Video ADCs range from USB cables with poor resolution and bitrate, to PCI cards with anything from fair to good quality, to firewire boxes with DVD resolution and very high bitrates. There will always be quality loss, but done well it is quite acceptable to almost unnoticable.
I have a < $2000 used SDI-based capture system (for transferring LDs and VHS to DVD). In general, the DVD player (and compression) itself would be the biggest performance-limiting factor. New, my equipment probably cost in the $5000 to $7000 range.I have yet to try to capture macrovision-protected content, but I'll try it & post the results.
the other person I talked to also said that it's usually a "ripping" job, done from the DVD-ROM drive, but wasn't sure about taking the video output and doing an A/D.I imagine the necessary equipment to do it [pirate from the video outs] at a "high" quality level is fairly pricey right now... but coming down as everything is.
Mike
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