Screener (film)

Screeners are films that are made available to journalists and critics, award juries or other persons from the film industry (e.g. producers) for viewing. One example is the annual Academy Awards, before films from Hollywood studios are sent on DVD (previously VHS ) to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .

In the warez scene , the term also refers to black copies of a film based on a screener. Often these are marked with SCR or DVDSCR.

The quality is often reduced by the fact that the screeners are provided with black and white sections and / or faded in information from the publisher . Often it also contains unfinished green / blue screen scenes.

DVD screener

DVD screeners are similar to screeners , except that they are based on a pre-released DVD for the press. The sound and picture quality are the same as with a normal DVD rip. Unlike screeners, there are no longer any interference signals.

However, the image frames are sometimes provided with invisible, unambiguous watermarks , which enable an assignment to an initial recipient and thus the exact localization of the weak point in the distribution if an illegal copy of the work appears in the warez scene.

See also

• PDTV
• Press screening

literature

• Jan Krömer, Evrim Sen: No Copy . Tropen-Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-932170-82-2 , pp. 108-109 ( online under the Creative Commons license).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Xeni Jardin: Memoirs of a Free Geisha. DVD pirates successfully plunder Academy Award screeners. January 13, 2006, accessed July 5, 2020 .