James Delahunty
16 Jan 2007 18:42
As many of you may have already noticed, rips of HD DVD movies have started to appear on several BitTorrent trackers and on Usenet. Not to be confused with the constant flow of available HD movies, these rips come right from the HD DVD retail discs after the AACS has been stripped away by a recent hack, and are not captures from HDTV broadcasts.
The "EVO" files which hold the content can reportedly be played back with software like CyberLink's PowerDVD Ultra. The entire rips could be up to 30GB in size (the max storage a dual layer HD DVD disc provides), so widescale downloading will probably not occur for some time yet.
Among the titles available for download are the hits Batman Begins and Superman Returns, both showing high quality VC-1 video in 1080p.
Source:
Usenet + Several BitTorrent Trackers