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Cinea pulls plug on screener player


September 11, 2007 The DVD player custom-made for tens of thousands of Oscar voters since 2004 has been quietly phased out by its maker, Cinea, a division of Dolby Laboratories. A piracy-busting fixture of the screener program, the S-View worked with DVDs encrypted so that the discs only could play on a machine registered to each particular voter. A spokesman for Cinea characterized the reason for its pullout from the screener scene as a shift in resources that won't take it out of the copyright-protection game.

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