Film studios that have switched to Blu-ray may have
crowed a little too early because the much-praised BD+ copy protection is an ad
absurdum affair now, too. With today's release of version 6.4.0.0 of AnyDVD HD
it is now also possible to make backup security copies of Blu-ray discs
protected with BD+.
Richard Doherty of the Envisioneering Group will have to
revise his statement from July, 2007 regarding BD+: "BD+, unlike AACS
which suffered a partial hack last year, won't likely be breached for 10
years". It is worth mentioning that since he made that statement only
eight months have gone by.
Peer van Heuen, head of High-Definition technologies at
SlySoft adds:
"Admittedly, we are not really so fast with this
because actually we had intended to publish this release already in December as
promised.
However, it was decided for strategic reasons to wait a
bit for the outcome of the "format war" between HD DVD and Blu-ray.
On top of that, we first wanted to see our assumptions confirmed about the in
the meantime released BD+ titles regarding the BD+ Virtual Machine. We are
rather proud to have brought back to earth the highly-praised and previously
"unbreakable" BD+. However, we must also admit that the Blu-ray
titles released up to now have not fully exploited the possibilities of BD+.
Future releases will undoubtedly have a modified and more polished BD+
protection, but we are well prepared for this and await the coming developments
rather relaxed".
Van Heuen adds
jokingly: "The worst-case scenario then is our boss
locks us up with only bread and water in the company dungeon for three months
until we are successful again".
Giancarlo Bettini, SlySoft CEO, adds, "We are
convinced that today's release will give the high-density market new impulse.
It remains unclear just what direction this will take. On the one hand, it can
give Blu-ray a boost because the end-user has the certainty in knowing now that
a backup security copy can also be made from Blu-ray disks protected by BD+. On
the other hand, one or more film studios may want to reconsider their
withdrawal from HD DVD and Toshiba could also grant the high-density DVD a reprieve.
HD DVD certainly deserves a second chance, particularly since HD DVD hardware
has obtained a higher market share within the last months than its BD
counterpart from SONY. In any event, I wish all those involved a happy Easter
from the bottom of my heart."
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Changelog AnyDVD HD 6.4.0.0 2008 03 19
- New (Blu-ray): Removes the BD+ protection from Blu-ray
discs!
(for increased
compatibility with titles released by Twentieth
Century Fox
:-)
)
- New (Blu-ray): Added option to enable / disable BD+
removal
- New (DVD): AnyDVD ripper no longer uses the Windows
filesystem, it
has now its own
UDF parser / reader.
Discs which
cannot be read by Windows can now be copied with the
AnyDVD ripper.
- Fix (Blu-ray): Black display with some BD discs, e.g.,
"Layer Cake",
second release,
"The Fugitive", "Wild Things" (all Region B)
- Fix (DVD): Small bugfix in "repairing defective
disc structure"
function of
AnyDVD ripper
- Fix (DVD): Problems with some Arccos protected titles,
e.g.
"The
Grudge", R1, US
- Some minor fixes and improvements
- Updated languages
