DVDs are the most important source to be accessible to the newest movies nowadays. If you are a movie enthusiast, I believe you must have numerous DVDs or Blu-rays at hand. For the authenticity of the DVDs, you may choose to purchase on a physical DVD store. But in the digital era, the more convenient and quick way is to purchase online. However, one of the embarrassing issue is that the DVD you have purchased may not be the legal on. In other words, you may purchase unauthorized copies of DVDs around the world. Then, here comes a question. How to tell the authentic DVDs from the fake DVDs? What are the factors to guarantee that I have not bought the fake DVDs? If you are confused by the above questions, then you can stop here, I will list the tutorials on how to check for the authenticity of DVDs.

Part 1: Spot fake DVDs from the cover

There are many steps to be taken to identify fake DVDs. You can take a clear inspection on the label, package, cover, content, price and region codes of the DVDs so as to identify the authenticity. Among the methods, the most easy and direct way is to check from the cover of the DVDs

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Before buying a piece of DVD disc, please look carefully at the cover. The first thing you must pay attention to the image on the cover. The cover design should be the same as the same movie being sold in the market. Usually there are some posters for the movie to be released and the cover design will choose one of the posters.

Secondly, you must notice the information printed on the cover of the DVD. On the cover of the genuine DVDs, you can find trademarks, copy right information, IFPI codes, studio logo and region code, while on the fake DVD cover, the information is not complete.

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Thirdly, please check the image quality on the cover. You can judge its authorization from the gritty images, matte paper and dull colors. The color of the UPC on the back of the DVD case should be presented in black. If it is printed in other colors, you must be very careful. Besides, if the lines in the UPC are indistinct with a halftone screen over it, then the DVD can be probably regarded as the fake DVD or copied DVD. Especially for the fake Disney DVD, if your UK Disney DVD doesn't have a Disney hologram symbol on the spine of the case, then it's a fake

Part 2: Spot fake DVDs from the content

Sometimes, the fake DVDs can't be separated only from the cover due to the higher fake producing technology. In such cases, you can open the package and take out the DVD and put it on your DVD drive to check the audio and video quality. Before it, you can check the capacity of the DVD. In common cases, there should be about 5GB for a single layer which will be limited on the running time. Then you can put the suspected fake DVD into the disc drive to see whether the audio and video quality is smooth and accurate without any buffering.

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The significant feature of Leawo Blu-ray Player is that no matter if the DVD disc is regionally protected, decoding or encoding, they all still can play with Leawo Blu-ray Player for totally free. Therefore, it is easy to compare the difference between original DVDs and fake DVDs via Leawo Blu-ray player. Just through the image and sound quality, you can identify whether it is a fake DVD or not.

Here in order to play the DVD disc successfully, you can select Leawo Blu-ray Player as your media player. As a 100% free and 6-in-1 media player software, Leawo Blu-ray Player contains all media playback solutions you need for your leisure entertainment, including 4K, Blu-ray, DVD, CD, HD (4K), MPEG, WPL and so on. With advanced image and audio processing technology, Leawo Blu-ray Player provides you extraordinary movie playback and cinema-like experience.

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  • Leawo Blu-ray Player

    Region-free Blu-ray player software to play Blu-ray disc and DVD disc for free, regardless of disc protection and region restriction.
    Play 4K FLV videos, 4K MKV videos, 4K MP4 videos, etc. without quality loss.
    Play 1080P videos, 720P videos with lossless quality.

Furthermore, within Leawo Blu-ray Player, you could obtain the personalized settings according to your preference and all the settings could be done automatically. You can refer to the following steps below to check the content of the DVD.

Step 1. Download Leawo Blu-ray Player and then put your DVD disc on the disc drive on your computer.

Step 2. Play the DVD on the Leawo Blu-ray Player. After putting the DVD in the disc drive, the name of the DVD will appear on the main interface of the player. You can click the name and then the DVD will play automatically.

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Step 3. After loading the ISO movie, it will be played automatically. During the playback, you can move the mouse to the title area. Then you could see 4 icons. representing subtitle settings, video settings, audio settings and menu.

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Step 4. Check the audio and video quality of the DVD. If the DVD is originally made, then you can obtain a very clear picture and sound performance of the DVD. If the image is very blurry and the sound is not clear, then the DVD can be regarded as a fake DVD. Apart from playing DVD, as its name suggests, Leawo Blu-ray Player can also play Blu-ray across regions, for instance, it enables people to play region A Blu-ray disc in Europe.

Part 3: What to do with a fake DVD?

If you can confirm the DVD is a fake DVD, what should you do? Well, the first thing you can do is to go back to the store where you purchased the DVD or even go back to the manufacturer and tell them you have a fake DVD. You can claim a refund. Secondly, if the store refused to pay you a refund, you can complain to the local authorities or the coordinating party to leave negative feedback with a report.

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Bonus: How to back up DVD content?

Sometimes, you may want to back up your favorite movie from the original DVD disc so as to save much cost in buying an original DVD for viewing your preferred movies or videos. Therefore, using an awesome third-party tool to back up DVD content with lossless quality is necessary. Here we will introduce you a great backup tool Leawo DVD Copy to help you finish your task.

Leawo DVD Copy is a powerful copy tool to satisfy user’s different needs, there are 3 different modes provided by this program, which includes full movie mode, main movie mode, and custom mode. Being a powerful DVD copy tool, you are allowed to copy DVDs with no limit by using Leawo DVD Copy. CSS protection as well as region codes from DVD can be removed by this program so that the DVD with regional protection can be copied smoothly. The most important feature of Leawo DVD copy is that original quality of DVD content can be preserved in the proportion of 1:1.

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Hereby, we are going to show you the specific steps of how to back up DVD content. You can follow the instructions as below to perform the backup task of your DVD.

Step 1. Enter DVD copy

Download and install the software package Prof. Media, then launch it on your computer. You will be guided to the homepage of the software and then click to “Copy” tab on the top menu to go into DVD copy module.

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Step 2. Import source DVD files to this software

You can hit on button “Add Blu-ray/DVD” to get your DVD files imported to the program. Also, you can drag and drop the source files directly to the program interface.

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Step 3. Do the settings of DVD copy

#1. Disc type settings
Once you import the source DVD files to the program, select Disc type for output backup files like DVD-9 or DVD-5.

#2. Select copy mode
3 copy modes are available in this DVD copy program, which includes Full Movie, Main Movie, and Custom Mode. You can choose the copy mode as you need.

#3. Choose subtitles and audio track
Subtitles and audio track can be selected according to your requirement for copying DVD content. And the output file size will be displayed via the indicator bar at the bottom.

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Step 4. Begin DVD backup

Click on the big green button “Copy” from upper right corner to make the sidebar of backup settings pop up.

To copy your DVD content to a new disc, you can insert a blank disc into your computer and choose it as target disc label below “Copy to” option.

To save your DVD content as folder or ISO file in your computer, you can choose “Folder” or “ISO File” option and then choose an output directory for your backup below “Save to” option.

After that, click on “Copy” button from the bottom of pop-up sidebar to begin backup process.

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