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Topic: Can DTS disks be copied using a CD-Rom Burner?
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Don Bruechert
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Posts: 340
From: Manitowoc, WI, USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 10-19-2003 05:36 PM
This would be in a scenario where we get one print of a movie and need to interlock it ito the adjacent theater. I would need another set of DTS disks. Because I am thinking this scenario would probably only occur in the case of a midnight movie, when I only have one print, and want to take advantage of the extra seats, I doubt calling TES and telling them my DTS disks were missing from the shipment would get me a set fast enough. I know Karen's probably getting ready to go into lecture mode, but I am not asking this question for the ability to bootleg the disks, but let's just say it is for backup purposes, in case one of my coworkers were to mess up the disks, and the copy would be destroyed as soon as we tore down the print (it would be useless without the print anyway). Has anyone ever done this?? Any special tricks needed? Thanks.
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Bruce Hansen
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From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 10-20-2003 10:41 AM
About defective discs: the "slim" cases that DTS was using, I believe were the problem. If you look at just about any other CD case you will see a built-up ridge near the center, and sometimes the same thing around the outside of the disc area. These ridges keep the surface of the disc from resting on the case itself. The slim DTS cases do not have these ridges, and the serface of the discs rests on the case bottom. The disc can rotate in the case, and any dust or durt will scratch the disc in the process. These scratches will be right in line with the tracks on the discs, making the discs very hard to read. The top of the case can also rest on the disc, and again scratch the back of the disc. Since DTS does not print a "full" label on the back of the disc, there is only a thin coat of plastic protecting the recording. Any scratch on the back side of the disc can destroy the recording, and make that part of the disc unplayable. If you can see a scratch on BOTH sides of the disc, the recording has been destroyed.
Nero burner has options that will let it try to correct errors, and if it can't correct them, it will bypass them. If the problem is not too bad, you can make a playable copy of the disc this way, although the audio may "flutter" where the damage was done to the original disc.
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