SlySoft's latest AnyDVD HD release strips BD+ from Blu-ray Discs

Posted Mar 19th 2008 12:41PM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Industry, Blu-ray, Fox

The title pretty much says it all here, folks. Just a few months after SlySoft revealed a beta of its AnyDVD HD software which obliterated BD+, v6.4.0.0 has finally arrived and proudly possesses the ability to "remove BD+ protection from Blu-ray Discs." Among the other changes is an option to enable / disable BD+ removal, a fix for seeing a black display with some BD discs and other minor DVD-related tweaks.

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/19/slysofts-latest-anydvd-hd-release-strips-bd-from-blu-ray-discs/

Really, are we supposed to be surprised?

A human makes a lock, a human 'breaks into' the lock...

Interesting, Falcon.

So has anyone here successfully ripped a bd+ disk yet?

It's cool that you could actually rip an entire BD disc, but you will sacrifice disc space on your PC or external drives. If you want to burn it on a disc you'll need an expensiver Bluray burner and the still expensive blank Bluray discs. Total it's an expensive hobby. You'll be better off buying the movie at a discount or used and save money and time. That is just my opinion btw.

Thanks

That is so ironic but everyone knew this was gonna happen. Fox went with blu ray because they are so anal about copyright. Yet it doesn't matter in the end. Nothing is protected for very long these days, hahaha. As soon as recorders and blank discs come down in price it's pirate time for the pirates once again. Maybe they should come out with 3.0 blu ray players so they can give themselves another couple "copy free" months.

Count me in as one of the people waiting for blank Blu Ray discs to drop in price....\

ARRRRRRRR!!!!

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[Post edited by Bosshog7 on Mar 19, 2008]

I've ripped 28 to date.

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I've ripped 28 to date.

How is the quality, Reaggie?

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It's cool that you could actually rip an entire BD disc, but you will sacrifice disc space on your PC or external drives. If you want to burn it on a disc you'll need an expensiver Bluray burner and the still expensive blank Bluray discs. Total it's an expensive hobby. You'll be better off buying the movie at a discount or used and save money and time.

Or you could just buy one of these...

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/27/mediagate-announces-mg-450hd-entertainment-server/



When CES 2007 came around, a good portion of the US stopped and thanked their lucky stars as MediaGate's fairly well-spec'd lineup finally came stateside. Now, the same firm is introducing the MG-350HD's (pictured) successor, the MG-450HD. Said entertainment server enables owners to wirelessly stream HD video, music, and other media to an HDTV or stereo from their PC, and it also fetches content from networked hard drives and locally attached USB drives. Unfortunately, this one caps out at 802.11g, but it does include HDMI, optical / coaxial digital audio outs and Ethernet to boot. At $249, it's still a bit more expensive than Popcorn Hour's highly praised A-100, but loyalists probably won't mind.

In the end it's still better to just buy the disks. Piracy is bad!

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[Post edited by Falcon01 on Mar 19, 2008]

The xbox360 would allow all the same streaming capabilities if Microsoft would remove all the stupid strangleholds they've placed on the system!

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[Post edited by Bosshog7 on Mar 19, 2008]

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It's cool that you could actually rip an entire BD disc, but you will sacrifice disc space on your PC or external drives. If you want to burn it on a disc you'll need an expensiver Bluray burner and the still expensive blank Bluray discs.

dude if whining about disk space is what your oding, wlel newegg has 750 gig drives for just alittle over 100

and the burners keep falling.

I dont really wanna burn, but will most likely try just cause.

Thanks for the heads up Falcon

The MAIN REASON why SONY PUSHED the studios to go Blu Ray.... JUST WENT DOWN THE DRAIN: TOTAL SECURITY.

xplaytendo... that might have been the "main reason" to convince FOX to support Blu-ray, but the others were likely swayed by various reasons (not just 'security'), such as the potentially huge PS3 base of support. Also Sony itself would be exclusive to just Blu-ray (and they control MUCH content), and would be putting their full weight against HD-DVD... etc - things like that.

While I understand the thinking behind 'security', HDCP, etc, I personally am against it's use since most of us are willing to be honest and legally pay for our HD content.

-JIMI (the Voodoo Child)

NO contest here LH.... Given that the Pandora's Box has now been widely opened... we will see blu-ray titles being patched with new security codes... only to be decrypted by Slysoft.

As for piracy... it's inevitable in the consumer market. That's the REALITY of it. Once the blu-ray burners begin to sell for $100, with each blank disc a FRACTION of a blu-ray title... PEOPLE WILL BURN MOVIES... Worse: Get ready for BOOTLEG movies on sale everywhere.

This is, of course: Should manufactures DO release cheaper blu-ray burners & inexpensive blu-ray platters. Otherwise, decrypted blu-ray movies will reside in hard drives in a tivo-like manner.

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[Post edited by xplaytendo on Mar 19, 2008]

Whoa! ^above^ (scary for the studios)

...Here's hoping that maybe the prices of released Blu-ray discs will come down faster. (a counter attack as the format grows?)

-JIMI (the Voodoo Child)

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. Retail the blu-ray movies for around $15 to $20... TOPS! Not a Sale price of $15 to $20. Make it impractical for people to copy movies, due to inexpensive prices of blu-ray titles! That's the only way the studios will reap profits.... IN THE LONG TERM. Well, THAT & much much cheaper standalone blu-ray players.

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[Post edited by xplaytendo on Mar 19, 2008]

Quality is 1:1. The software simply removes all the copy code protection from the disk. Then extracts the files to your hard drive. PS You need a really really fast computer!!! With ample Hard Disk space and a HD ready Video card, on top of the BD-Rom drive. For Example my machine

2 Dual Core 2.8Ghz Xeon Processors
3 Gigs of RD-Ram PC-800
73 Gig boot Drive + 2 500 Gigs storage drives
Windows XP Prof.
ATI 2600HD Video Card
on top of the sound blaster HD sound card
and the LG BD-ROM/ XBOX Toshiba 802a HD DVD Rom + Toshiba 902 HD DVD writer.

Oh yeah Power DVD Version 7.3 with HD DVD/BR support

This is just the basic stuff to run HD. I recommend faster stuff than this to get the ripping performance.

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[Post edited by ReaggieP on Mar 19, 2008]

OMG, just wait for the black market to start ripping everything Blu Ray over to HD DVD, and everything HD DVD over to Blu Ray.

All studios, all titles, available on every HDM format.

Against the law?? Of Course, but might any of you been driving home this evening at 60 in a 55 zone.

That would be illegal too.

I would not be the one to rip HDM and openly distribute it to everyone online, but to be able to watch Blu Ray and HD DVD titles on an HTPC without the addition of $1000 of extra HDCP compliant hardware would be enough for me...

I think (?) you can back up your own copy to a computer BUT you cannot share it or make multiple copies. At least that's the way I understand it. Heck I bought Blue Harvest and it includes a version to throw on your PC.

If this had occurred and was announced in late December 2007, do you think that would have changed the outcome of the format war? Security/piracy was cited as one of the big pluses for Blu-Ray. Sure wish HD-DVD could have held on longer, more news like this perhaps could have helped sway companies to consider nuetrality plus HD-DVD was and still is a better designed product right from inception.

OK, I have tried AnyDVD with HD DVD titles and have found that they now play on my Non-HDCP compliant PC hardware.

Now to find that they can strip the region coding off of Blu Ray, this opens up the possibilities of being able to watch all of the foreign Blu Releases Region Free!!

I can already play HD DVD's on my PC with an XBOX360 HD DVD drive, and will likely pick up a Dual format PC Blu Ray/HD DVD drive shortly.

You won't find me sharing any of my HDM Disc catalog via any BitTorrent sites, but to legally archive and playback HDM without HDCP hardware is the deal clincher here.

Now it's on to start ordering up some of those Region 2 Blu Ray titles that I can now watch in Region 1 land.

Sorry, this only applies to PC drives, AnyDVD is not an option for standalone players..

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but to legally archive and playback HDM without HDCP hardware is the deal clincher here.

Sorry, if you are American there is no way to legally bypass HDM's protection. But then again, who's going to know unless you announced your intention publicly on the Internet.

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But then again, who's going to know unless you announced your intention publicly on the Internet.

Intention Publicly....

Actually doing so....

If I actually have legally purchased the Disc, am using it only for my own private in home viewing, and I am not making copies to share, sell, or distribute in any way.....

So what if my HTPC is a few years behind the times and doesn't have all the current HDCP hardware, AnyDVD offers some promise of being able to watch DVD, HD DVD, and BRD without forking out a few thousand dollars to buy a new HDCP compliant HTPC.

Not really looking to RIP anything, just to have playback capabilities on the antiquated PC hardware of my choice.

The AnyDVD software is over $100 US, so I'm not buying, but it is nice to know that such software exists.

I think I'll wait and see, maybe a shareware/freeware variant will pop up soon.

Maybe they will be able to fix the security loopholes when they get to Blu Ray profiles 3.0 or 4.0, but then of course you will have to purchase another Blu Ray player to be able to watch newer movie titles.

No piracy intended whatsoever, I don't play those games, I just am offended that movie studios automatically assume that everyone is a crook, and that means we need to be, HDCP'd, DRM'd, and Root Kit'ed to death, and that infringes on my ability to play a legally purchased Disc in the sanctity of my own home, without spending a small fortune on new hardware every time they decide to change the HDM security standards.

$ony/BMG already did the Root Kit number to several of my PC's just by playing the CD's, not even ripping them to MP3's, so you never know what they are up to.

With BD Live and players that accept cookies, don't be surprised that they will have a spy console sitting in everyone's living room.

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[Post edited by VideoCipher on Mar 21, 2008]

Yeah most of my stuff isn't HDCP compliant. Only my video card is. It's really hard to view HD movies on a first generation LCD panel. AnyDvd HD only cost me $45 but I already had AnyDvd from before...

I am on the waiting list for this it does EVERYTHING you can think of:
I have been waiting 2 months, so hopefully it is soon!!!

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/22/popcorn-hours-a-100-media-streamer-gets-official-has-waiting-l/

For those that can bring back wish lists from last October, you'll undoubtedly remember the totally promising Popcorn Hour Networked Media Tank. Now, it seems the device has received somewhat of a facelift since our initial sneak peek and hasn't lost a bit of its popularity. The A-100 media streamer enables users to stuff an HDD within and transfer files via BitTorrent when not dishing out all sorts of media or acting as a NAS. Additionally, it supports 1080p output and plays nice with just about every format imaginable, including: MPEG1/2/4, MP3, AVI, ASF, WMV, MOV, H.264, XviD, AAC, WAV, JPEG and lots, lots more. Sadly, this $179 gem is currently backordered, and requires some sort of fancy sign-up process just to get in line. Still, with specs like these, the wait is probably worth it.

I got the newest version of it: SlySoft.AnyDVD.HD.v6.4.0.0.FiNAL
I will test it out this evening.

All I have to say is Bye to Buying Blu-Ray!!!

Now a serious question for some of you?

Current Blu-Ray supporters,

How many of you will still buy Blu-Ray titles VS ripping them from NetFLIX/ or Rental Stores?

SlySoft on Blu-ray BD+ crack: next time it will be easier

"Admittedly, we are not really so fast with this because actually we had intended to publish this release already in December as promised," said Peer van Heuen, SlySoft head of HD technologies in a post. "However, it was decided for strategic reasons to wait a bit for the outcome of the 'format war' between HD DVD and Blu-ray."

The BDA won't be able to outrun this hack
One issue facing SlySoft (and anyone else that manages to crack BD+) is that the encryption keys and scheme can be modified in the case of a successful crack. That's no worry, as van Heuen told Ars that "cracking updates will take significantly less time than the basic work we did the last three months—which was figuring out how BD+ works, since it is not documented in public."

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080325-blu-ray-drm-definitively-cracked-update.html

cool

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[Post edited by streaky on Mar 31, 2008]

It's a continuous game of TAG for both sides. The sad part: The Studios will continue to spend MILLIONS of dollars, in security features, litigations, & (piracy) investigations... than by just SIMPLY doing the ONE THING that would discourage people from copying hi-def movies to platters: Sell the Blu-Ray movies at a retail price of $15 or UNDER! In the long term... they make money.

Get people to buy them cheap NOW, while blank blu-ray platters are selling for $25 a pop, & blu-ray burners for over $200! It just gets harder & harder to grasp (if at all) this piracy issue... once these duplicating tools become cheaper to manufacture, at a later date.

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[Post edited by xplaytendo on Apr 1, 2008]