> There's a company that claims to be able to stop this with some > peculiar > watermarking techniques that destroy the copy from the cinema screen > to > the video camera. Now owned by Dolby: If you can see it, you can record it at that quality. If you can hear it, you can record it at that quality. There is no way of stopping a sensor that mimics the human eye/ear, without stopping the human eye/ear as well. What you can do is develop systems that target the differences between the sensors in use and the human eye/ear. This does wonders for the development of accurate eye/ear emulating sensors. This process is traditionally known in the behavioural 'sciences' as an "arms race". Russell -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist