Monday, March 5, 2007
Slysoft Adds Blu-ray Support to AnyDVD HD
Posted by Jason Dunn in "SOFTWARE" @ 03:27 PM
"Not even four weeks have gone by since the release of AnyDVD HD,
a software for circumventing the copy protection provision of the new DVD format "HD-DVD". Now SlySoft announces a new version of AnyDVD HD which now also supports the authoritative, SONY-developed Blu-Ray(BD) format. And, by the way, the Blu-Ray related regional codes also get removed. AnyDVD HD costs 79 USD. An upgrade from AnyDVD to AnyDVD HD is available for 30 USD. Since the Blu-Ray functions were integrated into AnyDVD HD there will be no separate "BD" version of the software.
Giancarlo Bettini, CEO at SlySoft: "Since it was our firm conviction that the first copyable format would prevail in the end, our original intention was actually to support only HD-DVD. However, since the introduction of AnyDVD HD we have received so many customer inquiries about Blu-Ray that we simply couldn't close our eyes to this wish." James Wong, an AnyDVD developer:"SONY will see this with a mixed bag of sentiments. On the one hand, Blu-Ray is now equally copyable and on the other hand the market share deck of cards gets reshuffled".
I posted about AnyDVD cracking the HD-DVD code just a couple of weeks ago, and they're back at it again with a version that will bypass Blu-ray DRM now as well. I say bring it on: people should be able to back-up or make copies of their HD-DVD and Blu-ray DVDs for personal use, and this software is the first step in allowing that. I started work on an article last week after I successfully extracted the 27 GB of The Last Samurai in HD-DVD. Download a copy for free to check it out for yourself, or buy a copy. [Affiliate]
a software for circumventing the copy protection provision of the new DVD format "HD-DVD". Now SlySoft announces a new version of AnyDVD HD which now also supports the authoritative, SONY-developed Blu-Ray(BD) format. And, by the way, the Blu-Ray related regional codes also get removed. AnyDVD HD costs 79 USD. An upgrade from AnyDVD to AnyDVD HD is available for 30 USD. Since the Blu-Ray functions were integrated into AnyDVD HD there will be no separate "BD" version of the software.
Giancarlo Bettini, CEO at SlySoft: "Since it was our firm conviction that the first copyable format would prevail in the end, our original intention was actually to support only HD-DVD. However, since the introduction of AnyDVD HD we have received so many customer inquiries about Blu-Ray that we simply couldn't close our eyes to this wish." James Wong, an AnyDVD developer:"SONY will see this with a mixed bag of sentiments. On the one hand, Blu-Ray is now equally copyable and on the other hand the market share deck of cards gets reshuffled".
I posted about AnyDVD cracking the HD-DVD code just a couple of weeks ago, and they're back at it again with a version that will bypass Blu-ray DRM now as well. I say bring it on: people should be able to back-up or make copies of their HD-DVD and Blu-ray DVDs for personal use, and this software is the first step in allowing that. I started work on an article last week after I successfully extracted the 27 GB of The Last Samurai in HD-DVD. Download a copy for free to check it out for yourself, or buy a copy. [Affiliate]
