Following recent news of broken decription keys for HD-DVD and Blu-ray disks, Slysoft has announced AnyDVD HD. With the right hardware and plenty of disk space, Slysoft's AnyDVD HD software lets you easily rip HD-DVDs. As confusing and gray as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is, one could assume that AnyDVD HD is a violation of the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions. Who knows how much heat Slysoft will get with this release? However, their standard DVD ripping utility has been on the market for years.

Slysoft's HD software works just like their DVD software under Windows XP. According to Slysoft, AnyDVD HD includes:

• Same features as regular AnyDVD
• Removes encryption (AACS) from HD-DVDs
• watch movies over digital display connection, without HDCP compliant graphics card and HDCP compliant display.
• playback of discs on the PC with PowerDVD Ultra, which otherwise do not run.
• Removes user prohibitions, you can select the language and subtitle track without going through the disc's menu.
• Removes parental restrictions.
• Allows you to remove or skip Studio Logos and warning messages.
• With "magic file replacement ™" you can remaster any commercial movie disc using simple XML scripts.
• Includes a UDF 2.5 file ripper, no need to install 3rd party UDF 2.5 filesystem under Windows XP.

And requires:

• IBM-compatible PC with a minimum 2 GHz Pentium-class microprocessor and 512 MB RAM
• Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP/XP64/VISTA/VISTA64
• 2 MB hard-disk space
• AnyDVD HD required Windows 98 as the minimum OS for standard DVDs.
• For HD decryption / ripping the minimum OS is Windows 2000 (latest SP).
• PC Player software usually requires Windows XP SP2 as the minumum OS.

A Blu-ray version is forth-coming.

No word yet on HD-DVD/Blu-ray capabilities from the usual suspects on the Mac side (Mac The Ripper and HandBrake/MediaFork).

AnyDVD HD

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tt said:

so here it goes again. I sure hope this doesn't help kill DVD as the format.

June 24, 2008

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