Can you see the different?

If you’re living in Malaysia and have somehow managed to catch films like The Men Who Stare At Goats, An Education or Precious, chances are you may already have seen the following clip countless times. If you haven’t, here’s a little background info.

Within the past two years or so copies of pirated DVDs found in Malaysia started surfacing with a pre-viewing, FBI-warning-type message imploring you to choose ‘gold discs’ over ‘purple discs’, with the former providing better audio quality, visual clarity and, well, more bang for your buck. The purple discs are apparently vastly inferior to the gold discs, as a valiant Daniel Craig will show you. I’m not sure what the real technical difference is between the two, but I believe the gold discs are supposed to be dual-layer discs (although a check with Nero’s InfoTool says that the discs are single layer with a capacity of 4.67GB) and the purple ones are regular DVD-R’s. Can you see the different?

Blah | February 25th, 2010

One Response to “Can you see the different?”

  1. James Molloy Says:
    February 27th, 2010 at 4:19 am

    All I know is when I buy a DVD in Ireland it comes with a two minute anti piracy video at the start every single time you put it in the drive. “You wouldn’t steal a car” No, but I’d download one if I could.

    If I download a movie I get straight to the movie no bother. It’s easier skip around in it as well if you decide to watch the other half another day. Image quality suffers a bit but I’m not that fussy for most stuff. If it’s a really beautiful movie I’m going to go to the cinema to enjoy it. Nothing ever looks as nice at home.

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