Wicked: Space Nuts
Evolution Erotica: Butt-a-bang
Metro/Toxxxic: Pussy Whipped #2
Elegant Angel: Cytherea Iz Squirtwoman
RLD: Teenage Spermaholics
RLD: No Cum Dodging Allowed #3
PXP: Baker's Dozen

Space Nuts especially does not seem like a discount production in any way.

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I think that it's pretty safe to say that this problem is isolated to that single authoring company. Since they have discovered what the problem was and have removed that piece of equipment from their production process. They shouldn't be creating any more bad discs.

The equipment was removed late July/early August. Given the turn around time for DVD's between going to the authorer and hitting the stores, it's likely that the problem will disappear completely by sometime in late Sept/early Oct.

However, that wouldn't necessarily apply to companies who sit on product for a long time before releasing it. I think that Wicked is one of those companies.

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Also, regarding your reference to Wicked sitting on product...
My understanding is that companies typically sit on scenes (not necessarily completed, authored and pressed DVDs).
Wouldn't these scenes be OK as long as the DVDs they find their way into are authored after the "big equipment halo fix of aught '04"?

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Here are my question for the Cal44, OREN or anybody else for that matter?

Why arent porno movies encrypted? Seems like a simple solution to make it harder to copy DVD.

Do the studios do a raw edit with uncompressed video? read that as big huge files?

Finally what caused the halo effect? transcoding by authoring company?

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Most production companies install encryptions like CSS codes or microvisions, however a DVD is in quality equal to a DV master. It does't stop piracy. Technology allows people to strip the DVD and re-author it again. The halo effect caused by simply bad encoding process. It can be caused by a bad wire, bad harddrive or cheap encoder or simply adding too much chroma to the colors. It is highly recomended to encode movies in VBR 5.5 or higher rate. Most authoring houses who are operated by young unexperienced kids who always look for shortcuts. VBR takes twice as much to encode than stright encoding. most production companies refuse to pay the extra cost for authoring. They don't want to pay more than 600 dollars for a DVD-9. I guess I can sum it up by saying you get what you paid for.

Oren
Anarchy Films

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I also seem to remember there being a very long time between reading about Devinn Lane doing her fiorst Boy/Girl scene and the release of that movie. Because of that recollection and the fact that Wicked uses this particular authorer, I mentioned them specifically.

I have no idea whether they do the DVD pressing closer to the production date or the release date in this instance. If they make the DVD's closer to the production date, and they were made prior to the problem being fixed, then the problem could appear on discs that aren't released until sometime next year. But you're right, if the the DVD wasn't authored prior to discovering the problem, then it will not appear on the disc, regardless of when it was shot.

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