Blu-ray Discs – Ripped without Mercy

These days Chinese movie pirates seem to have a crush on Blu-ray as it has become their main target on the black market. As Wall Street Journal reports, behind this wave of piracy there’s technology at play due to which the pirates spend very little to make the illegal copies (burned on Blu.ray discs) which, on the other hand, can easily fool the eye.

This bootleg format is called AVCHD and pirates offer an "unrivaled" price of $7 per disc. Of course, the MPAA is worried like hell:

The MPAA estimates that within the next six months the high-definition discs could account for 10% of $224 million that its member companies lose from piracy in China. While a legitimate Blu-ray discs costs about $30, a pirated Chinese disc goes for as little as $7.

Compared to a Blu-ray movie format this bootleg format is a grade lower and uses 720 horizontal lines of resolution instead of 1,080, still manging to put out a better quality in picture than an ordinary DVD on high-definition TV sets.