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- Ecowarrior, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The boys on doom9 are copying both... with impunity.
- unixer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7What are you talking about this is Bad for HD DVD. This means that the studios will move to blue ray
- gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think the HD version of AnyDVD will be a new product. They have to make money somehow. As far as torrents go, the beta is free you idiot.
- SlackerCSB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, but I don't think there is a HD DVD Burner on the market yet... and if I'm mistaken and there is one, it has to be a crappy 1st gen burner that is slow and buggy.
Please point me in the direction of burner if I'm wrong. - Karmalary, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The beta is free, but you have to register, jump through the hoops, get approved, etc. I have a (legit) copy of AnyDVD, have had for years, and if this new addition works I'll gladly pay for the upgrade. I'd just like to see it in action before I spend the bucks for a HD DVD burner. This may be the day.
- DDoSAttack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is definitely an angle that isn't discussed much in the news about the format wars.
- catalysis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@mrgreen4242
Is it really worth ripping a 20GB file and compressing it to fit on a standard DVD? Is the quality significantly better than a movie mastered to a DVD? - StephenBrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Goodness, I'm surprised no one has put up the link to the actual release yet.
Here's the forum thread: http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=1279
I don't have an HD-DVD player, and I don't plan on getting one anytime soon (waiting for format wars and all that jazz. Plus, regular DVD is fine for me right here right now.) but as long as we can keep our media free, I'm all for it! - LocalH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why the ***** did the article submitter put "backup" in quotes? The mindset that there is no legitimate backup need is very damaging to our digital freedom.
- kibbled, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I already have Any DVD on my system. I wonder if I need to buy it again for HD-DVD or will I get a free upgrade?
- digitalunltd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I wonder the negative side effects, not all companies are using HD-DVD, and if they know that people are more likely to pirate HD-DVD's then they might never use HD-DVD. And there is the fact that SONY puts out alot of the movies that alot of the rich HDDVD pioneers want to have. But hopefully SONY is just holding so tight that they are srewing them selves like they did with Beta max, Mini disc, digital camera Memory, and so on... SONY is there own worst enemy, I wonder when they will realize this?
- Karmalary, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks, Stephen. Looks like I'm buying a shiny new HD burner :-)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@slackerCSB
Toshiba is putting out the first one sometime in March/April.
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/003421.html - Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6If HD-DVD is copyable, and Blu-Ray is not, then that could definitely swing things in favor of HD-DVD.
Thing is, Blu-Ray is unlikely to stay uncopyable, and Toshiba & co are likely to sue AnyDVD for implementing a bypass of their DRM (and Sony is *guaranteed* to sue anyone implementing a bypass of THEIR drm). - vaga222, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think people need to see that while this application doesn't support BD movies right now all the signs are that later versions will since I can only assume they are using a similar technique to the guys over at Doom9.
Good luck to them :D - Innatech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Heh. You've got to love how quickly this DRM has been undermined. Now the consortium behind AACS is going to have to face the revocation issue early on in the push for consumer adoption of HD media, which is great. Either they'll have to abandon their intentions for the whole system, or they'll have to cope with the massive negative reaction that will ensue from average consumers understanding what key revocation means to them on a practical level; and if the comments on Doom9 are accurate then even should the currently cracked keys be revoked, the successful decryptions done thus far have yielded cribs that will allow other keys to be broken without exploiting the same memory scanning flaw in the media player used. (Which, for the record, may or may not be how SlySoft is doing this.)
- mrgreen4242, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Yeah, but I don't think there is a HD DVD Burner on the market yet... and if I'm mistaken and there is one, it has to be a crappy 1st gen burner that is slow and buggy.
Please point me in the direction of burner if I'm wrong."
Not sure what's out there and what's not. For me at least this is most interesting in the way of ripping HDDVDs and reencoding them to DVD9 sized h264 files. Ya, it takes a long, long time, but it's just the start of the HD backup process. A Core Solo Mac mini will play back those discs on a TV (with a DVI to HDMI connection) fine and should only run about $400 by now. I'm not sure how much HDDVD drives are running, but worse case is buying the $200 MS XBox unit. Dual layer DVD-R burners are standard in the mini, Netflix will send me the originals for - mrgreen4242, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Is it really worth ripping a 20GB file and compressing it to fit on a standard DVD? Is the quality significantly better than a movie mastered to a DVD?"
Yes. A 2 hour long 720p h264 video with 5.1 sound with the bitrate set to fit into a DVD9 will look like nearly as good a broadcast HDTV. At least as good as a lot of the more compressed cable/satellite HD channels. Better than DVD, but not as good as the original HDDVD.
The source files on the HDDVD/BR disc are 1080p, so your decreasing the resolution a bit to 720p which saves some space. You use the best codec out there (h264) an drop the bitrate to make the rest fit. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you know Sony can use this as leverage against HD-DVD. I wouldn't be surprised if all these so called drm 'hacks' weren't perpetrated by the makers themselves to leverage their product.
- aceuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@SlackerCSB. Wouldn't this program allow you to copy HD-DVDs on to Blu-Ray discs since they both use the same codecs?
- rubberjabber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Why is it bad for HD-DVD? Blu-Ray has also been cracked so what makes you think the studios will move to Blu-Ray?
P.S. It's Blu-Ray not Blue Ray. - pakdir, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0AnyDVD & AnyDVD HD 6.1.5.5
Download link : http://freshwap.com/Software/Software/AnyDVD-%26-AnyDVD-HD-6.1.5.5.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+8Too bad about Blu-ray.....NOT.
/borat
So, between this and porn, does this put HD-DVD over the top? - Karmalary, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I wonder how long until there's a torrent for the beta?
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"If HD-DVD is copyable, and Blu-Ray is not, then that could definitely swing things in favor of HD-DVD."
For the consumer yes, this is a good thing. However once the movie studios find out that HD can be copied at ease, which format do you think they'll get behind? I'll give you a hint, it doesn't have HD in the title. - WarFreak131, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1damnit, i was going to submit this story, but i didn't bother too, now someone else got it :)
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