Is there a such thing as fake blu rays

[thegame]

Like I've seen a bootlegs blu rays...but today went to the flea market and this one store was selling blu rays at prices that will make u waste your entire pay check. I not sure but they lady had a stack of blu ray movie wrap in plastic then the covers with the pictures..which she would insert the disc in. I've asked for war a movie which i brought at futureshop. the Cover and disc looked legit like everything from the all the pictures from the cover looked like the real thing. I asked her if she can play it and it seem legit like the pq was bluray....but i didn't buy anything...was wonder if they were bootlegs or the real thing because i've never seen a wholesaler with a stack of movies not in the cover and sealed?

[vcough]

Off topic reply, but did you by chance play Timesplitters 2?

[thegame]

Originally Posted by vcough

Off topic reply, but did you by chance play Timesplitters 2?

lol never herd of it until now.

[AnimeOnBlu]

Bootlegs do exist. They are usually just bootleg DVDs labeled as blu-ray, or an HDTV or blu-ray rip copied to a DVD. Someone on this forum and the HiDef Digest forums have posted their experiences of receiving a bootleg copy.

Edit- Found one of those posts

[X400]

futureshop? so ur in canada, which part?


i guess the best way to see if the blu-rays are real blu's is to check if they have lossless audio.. blu-bootlegs ive seen are just dvd's (avchd) with blu-ray pq but not the aq

there could be bootleg BLUs though, the media is getting cheap, but it still doesnt seem worth it yet

[thegame]

from richmond hill...ya i've seen the ones ay paiffic mall lol....but the one today seem perfect picture quailty was the same imagines were perfect..the disc played in the bd player they had perfect. The everything was perfect even the price 10 dollars. Which made me worry since i've never found a bd for 10 dollars.

[sinister184]

ive seen people try to sell fakes.. they're easily spotted. just just for the hard coating. you can feel the back, or even look at it, and tell its got hardcoat.

[thegame]

the disc i saw today i could have seen the other other side of the disc...like if i looked at the shinny part of the disc i could have seen the picture on the other side....i'll buy one tomorrow will take pictures...someone can tell me if its fake or not.

[alexakajeff]

Yes, there are bootlegs, just like there are DVD-R and DVD+R.

[djluis2k6]

Either she stole them, aquired them from someone else that stole them, or they are bootleg DVD's labeled as Blu-Ray. I think blank BD's are too expensive right now for bootleggers to make a profit from right now. Sure maybe in another 2-3 years they'll be cheaper and indepent companies will start producing their own media on BD's, but at the moment, unless they're stolen, I don't see anyone selling them any cheaper than they are in stores.

[richieb1971]

$10 isn't that cheap. Tower.com did a $11 deal on Bladerunner for me, thats 5 discs not 1. If they came from the factory or bought from distribution they could possibly sell them for that. But realistically I'd say they were excess stock from somewhere like Blockbuster.

[ryoohki]

Yeah cheap BD25 media are 10$, DL are around 22$ or more, burners are 300$ + empty box are 1$, etc...

The only thing have seen is bluray case + fake cover + DVDR inside as far as bootleg

[TheSentinel]

Try the scratch test to test the hard coat say "Hey you know the protective layer on blu-ray's, would you mind taking your finger nail and scraping it along the back of the disc?"

[thegame]

just tried it....it leaves a line smug like...just used my shirt to wipe it off and it was gone.

[aramis109]

Originally Posted by thegame

just tried it....it leaves a line smug like...just used my shirt to wipe it off and it was gone.

If you tried it, you must've bought one, no? Pop it into your PS3 (that I see in your sig) and hit the display button. What's the bitrate at? If it's above, what- 4.5(?) then it's a blu-ray.

Lossless audio would be another way to check as was mentioned. I have a feeling they're just stolen- possibly from a rental place as they don't have cases.

[radagast]

Originally Posted by thegame

Like I've seen a bootlegs blu rays...but today went to the flea market and this one store was selling blu rays at prices that will make u waste your entire pay check. I not sure but they lady had a stack of blu ray movie wrap in plastic then the covers with the pictures..which she would insert the disc in. I've asked for war a movie which i brought at futureshop. the Cover and disc looked legit like everything from the all the pictures from the cover looked like the real thing. I asked her if she can play it and it seem legit like the pq was bluray....but i didn't buy anything...was wonder if they were bootlegs or the real thing because i've never seen a wholesaler with a stack of movies not in the cover and sealed?

Weren't hd-dvds fake Blu-rays? I suppose someone could try to sell unsold hd-dvds as Blu-rays.

[thegame]

checked out glory road it was 5.1 640Kbps avc between 18-22 jumped back and forth....pop in the dvd of glory road which i also own it was 5.1 around 300 kbps mpeg 2 15-17........notice a huge differece between pq. I'm pretty sure now that its a legit blu ray.

[Clark Kent]

Most likely it is stolen or lost merchandise. Whatever happens to the products that "fall off the truck"? They get sold often at places like that. So it is probably a real Blu-ray. I don't believe we've seen any actual bootleg BD-Rs yet, at least in the U.S. There have been reports of people faking BDs when in fact they are just regular dvds dressed up to look the part.