From the Star Wars Home Video Library Intermission #17: Beware of "Multi-Screen Edition" Bootlegs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- This episode of From the Star Wars Home Video Library is designed to briefly warn potential buyers of an increasing trend of "Multi-Screen Edition" bootlegs of recent Star Wars releases and how to easily tell that they are illegitimate.
I find these bootlegs hilarious because normally Blu-Ray Discs would have better security and these people have *MANAGED* to turn this format into a bootlegger's bonanza!
About the Blu ray only version the official one
I saw other movies like that such as Avengers Infinity War, Black Panther, etc etc etc,
I definitely understand why someone would be fooled by it, but what I don't get is why did the bootlegger go through the trouble of making a brand new cover image when they could have just used the original one? They have no logic.
I can only assume that it was so that the person who bought it wouldn’t immediately recognize it was a bootleg by not having a digital code slip, but that seems kind of pointless when just looking at the bottoms of the discs made it obvious.
They don't have the source material, or are trying to avoid anti piracy companies. It's not like some pirate in a developing country/Russia/China has every new Blu Ray cover scanned. They make them quickly, so they can scam people while the media is relevant.
Sony recently announced that they are ending production on recordable Blu-ray Discs, meaning that this will be the end of bootleg Blu-ray releases.
Hopefully, though one has to wonder if that has prompted bootleg pressers to just load up on a ton of writeable BD-Rs so they can continue production for at least a while longer.
Luckly I havent gotten bootleged yet.
I didn’t even know there was such a thing as Blu-ray recordable discs. Does this mean that DVD-R stood for DVD recordable discs?
Correct. There was also a thing called DVD-RW for rewritable discs where they weren’t just one burn and done, but could be updated.
@@ChronoRadio I see. Speaking of the official blueberry releases of _Solo_ , I should probably check to see if my version is either a multi-screen edition or just the regular Blu-ray release because I don’t remember if my copy of it had a bonus in it. I know for a fact that it’s not a bootleg though because I got it for Christmas back in 2018.
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Fancy seeing you here, man.
@@ChaseMC215 Hey, fancy seeing you here too.
Got A Bootleg Of Ahsoka Season 1, Only Played To The Main Screen and Not Any Further Than That! Did Get A Refund!😮
The good news is that in distinguishing between bootlegs and legitimate releases, it's pretty easy for the Disney+ Star Wars series.
First, the only ones released at all legitimately have been Mandalorian Seasons 1 and 2 (separately), Andor Season 1, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. If it's any other series, it's a bootleg.
As for the four that have been released, every single one is a SteelBook. So if it's not a SteelBook, it's a bootleg.
If it's OWK or Andor, there is also no DVD version at all, so it's definitely a bootleg. (Mando S1 and S2 had a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack in the U.S. via Disney Movie Club).