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iTunes to allow video burning soon?

by David Chartier Aug 11th 2006 at 3:00PM



I used the question mark because nothing is set in stone here, but TUAW reader Ann-CA tipped us off to a report at the DVD Newsroom that Hollywood might actually be close to lifting some of their over-the-top restrictions on DVD burning. This slightly loosened grip on their content could allow for things like DVD burning kiosks (it better be a darn fast burner), and it could also give the green light to vendors like the iTunes Music Store to allow burning of purchased videos.

The panel in charge of making and (finally) rewriting these rules is called the DVD Copy Control Association, according to DVD Newsroom. This DVDCCA is currently working on licensing the encryption technology (Content Scrambling System, or: CSS - nothing to do with web design) to digital distribution services, which is the key to allowing video burning.

No ETA is offered on when these rewritten rules could see the light of day, or when video burning could arrive in the iTMS. If Hollywood's reaction times of the past are any indication (and I genuinely hope they aren't), however, we might all be using 7th or 8th gen iPods before we can watch iTMS video on something besides Apple-branded devices.

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Alex Dawson

Given the drives in every computer Apple has shipped can't burn CSS data required for encryption and region coding, I don't see this as very likely. You need special DVD for Authoring drives and DVD for Authoring Media to burn CSS data, which I can assure you, aren't and haven't been OEM in any Apple system.

See this nice document for more details about the difference between the "DVD for General" drives in all computers and "DVD for Authoring" drives used professionally - http://www.emedialive.com/Articles/PrintArticle.aspx?ArticleID=5320

August 11 2006 at 9:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Flip

Given that CSS is already cracked, the DRM measures are bit pointless. If someone really wanted to pirate Ultraviolet (really?), they could always buy a dvd, rip it, and distribute it using any number of pieces of free software. Hopefully DRM will be better w/next-gen discs, since without it the film companies will be unwilling to supply us with a viable option for on-demand content. And on-demand, DRM'd content basically kills the fair-use arguments, since backing up an all-digital copy is about 10 times easier than a hard copy. *Sigh* when will they learn? They're shooting themselves in the foot.

August 11 2006 at 7:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
icruise

Unless they seriously bump up the resolution, iTMS videos burned to DVD are still going to look like crap on a TV.

August 11 2006 at 5:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
andy

" however, we might all be using 7th or 8th gen iPods before we can watch iTMS video on something besides iTunes or an iPod."

gibberish lol

August 11 2006 at 3:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nik

Instead of just ensuring this occurs, why doesn't Apple actually work with the legal hawks and try and allow the importing of DVDs into iTunes? At least then we might be able to have them at a decent resolution. Of course, iTunes would need to be able to actually handle video efficiently too for any of this to be a reality.

August 11 2006 at 3:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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