Camcorder Jamming Devices Announced

Adam Carrington writes "I'm definitely not behind things like DRM, but Virginia-based Cinea has an idea that I do support... jamming camcorders in movie theaters. CNET has some interesting details on how they plan on going about it. They even throw an unrelated jab at Microsoft." This might be the technology that drives the stake in analog projection.

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good !

[Brigadier]

I made the mistake of purchasing a boot legg tape once and it was o obvious that someone sat in a theater with a camcorder. Even the sound sounded like a microphone in a card board box. To be honest I wouldn't spend mondey on developing this product because the quality of these tapes are horrific. Plus with digital video being available on the net who needs to do that anymore. I saw the chinese version (subtitled) of starwars episode one while it was still in the theaters.

QED

[moosesocks]

It seems quite obvious how this must work: Simply mount powerful infared lights are mounted around the screen, and place some in the projection booth aimed at the screen. While humans can't see infared light, camcorders can (press some buttons on a remote control and videotape it). The light will cause the whole movie to be blurry, have a red tint, as well as having an awful glare from the lights around the screen.

Seems like a pretty low-tech solution to me. Only problem is that it'll probably make all the cats in the theatre go crazy :-)