Hidden Pictures on Vista DVDs

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 03:35 PM EDT

This blog post at inicia.es (bring your translator) showing a hidden image of three men standing side-by-side on a Windows Vista Business DVD is making the rounds today. I had the scanner and my Vista Ultimate DVDs sitting right next to me when I came across that post, so I decided to slap it down and see if I could verify the image...

My aging scanner is only capable of 1600dpi resolution, but that was enough to verify the hidden image is actually there, and to spot another one at the opposite end of the rectangular mark on the disc. Not sure who they are, but anyone who bought retail copies of Windows Vista now has a picture of three random dudes and who knows what else in their collection.

Update: We've made a few more scans and found a couple more images to check out. It looks like there are another two faces on the DVD along with an image of the Earth from the moon.

We still can't make out the image that's under the "three men". If any of you have better scanners and a Vista DVD handy and wouldn't mind sending in a few scans, we'd appreciate it.

Tags: Vista, DVD, DVDs, DS, pictures, Pi, id

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com