DTS are not all made in japan bootlegs there have been quite a few U.S. versions of movies with this on the case .i have been selling dvds for 7 years on EBAY and SAVING PRIVATE RYAN was one of the most sought after versions of a DTS also GALDIATOR was for a while also .You can GOOGLE THIS and confirm it .But of course the japan versions are probaly not the correct ones.
This is a topic of wide discussion all over the internet. DTS is a common high quality audio format found in literally every dvd on the market. The only thing is the MPAA doesnt Stamp DTS version on the COVER ART. You can find legal dvds that have a small dts logo on the back of the case but never on the front page of the cover art.
And I have seen the Gladiator version of what you speak of. Not a single gladiator movie sold in stores prominantly displayed a DTS logo on the top of the Disk. In fact not a single movie EVER sold in a store has ever displayed a DTS logo on the front page of the cover art.
If you have been selling dvd's on ebay for 7 years then I regret to inform you you dont know as much as you think about bootleg movies. And apparently you have never visited the ebay forums about bootleg movies because this discussion has been going on for many years.
Do a search on ebay for any disney Dvd's , there are literally hundreds of these bootleg movies sold on ebay. And are also a ver big topic of discussion in the ebay forums.
Here is just a few of the 72,000 topics discussed on the ebay forums on this subject.
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Copy of my ebay guide I wrote a while back.
THE MPAA STRICLTY ENFORCES That Thier Movies Be Sealed In Cases. Even that Manufactures that Make movies for Other Regions Have to seal thier Cases.
Manufacturers are Forced By the movie industry to sell thier Movies to retailers at a set price based on the initial date of release.And the content in the DVD be it fullscreen, Widescreen,Special Edition and so fourth. The retailers themselves can sell them at whatever price they want. The only problem is that places like SamsClub loose 44 million A year on newer Release Dvd Sales. And thier average Price on Newer Dvd's are $13.99 on average throughout thier stores. They take this loss every year because its basically written off as a advertising ploy to get the shopper into thier store to buy other items. You know you can never escape wal-mart or sams without spending more money then you originaly intended to.
ALL and I mean ALL movies Are Region Encoded And Sealed With a Security Seal On all 3 Sides Of the Case. Anyone trying to sell you a Dvd Newer Release Without the Case with some lame excuse on saving you shipping charges is full of crap. If you take the train of thought on real shipping charges for 1 case is about $8.00-$14.00 and that case has 30 movies in it most of the time.
You see listing all over Ebay stating these things.
DVD9 (Dual Layer) See this listed anywhere on your dvd movie or Case?
'The most significant advantage of DVD9 is its cheaper price and All Region coding which means it can be played in all countries multi- system (NTSC, PAL) DVD players.'
Now remember what I said about Region Encoding.
SUPER DTS DVD5 (Single Layer)
These are not advertised by any legal manufacturer and are
are Well Known To be The Major Load of bootlegs selling On Ebay If you see a listing that has SUPER DTS on the top of the case then it is a bootleg plain and simple. Way too many powersellers are on ebay right now selling this junk. And most of them have no clue at all that they are selling bootlegs.
And they are all listed As SuperDts On the CoverArt and the back of the Dvd insert Shipped By these sellers.
Look anywhere on the Net These are listed Heavily as BOOTLEGS
So heres the list of things to be carefull of.
1..Region 1 movies do not have asian Symbols or writing on the disks they were designed for the US and CANADA there is no reason for them to have asian markings on them.
2..Dvd Movies are required to have a Case if they are being sold as NEW. They are not saving you money by shipping without cases they are just saving themselves extra work selling just copied disks to you.
3..Dvd Movies that Have DTS ANYWHERE ON THE FRONT OF THE CASE ARE BOOTLEGS
4..DVD9 MOVIES ARE BOOTLEGS {The MPAA does not advertise DTS or DVD9 On any movie PERIOD}
5..REGION 0 MOVIES ARE MOSTLY BOOTLEGS.. All movies are required to be region encoded. There are very few movies that were legally made
6..Sellers dont ship with case inserts and no cases to save you shipping,, They are saving themselves money,by not purchasing cases for thier bootleg movies.
7..Even Powersellers are selling Bootleg movies.
Now remember folks. Not all sellers out there are bad. Ive purchased lots of movies from many sellers on ebay and almost all of them have sold legal movies. Theres a few out there I have actually told that were selling bootlegs and they stopped it immediately after seeing proof.