Thanks for all the great feedback. I'm now using AnyDVD and CloneDVD2 and am having no problems at all. Being a 'newbee", and wanting to learn as much as I can about all of this I've continued to do a lot of reading on the boards about these type of programs and I'm just wondering what keeps products like AnyDVD and CloneDVD2 from being forced out of business the way DVD XCopy Xpress was? That's what I've been using for the past couple of years... do you think there will always be SOME type of product out there that we'll be able to use, or do you think all of these programs that let us copy copy-protected DVD's will be forced out of business?
Slysoft, the makers of AnyDvd & Clonedvd2 (HALLELUJAH!) are based in Antigua, conveniently out of reach of the film studio lawyers! [bold]MARVELLOUS!!!!![/bold]
Hi Dude2009... I'm not sure I understand what you were referring to...( newbee here ). Did you mean that what Pulsar said may not be the case after all?? Thanks ! Chuck
wondering if he is a lawyer i am I agree with Pulsar, I am happy they are located elsewhere. Antiqua would be a nice place to visit sometime, and buy those folk a beer!
@ ireland - any chance that current owners of a DVD Clone Key can participate in the bundle rate for Any DVD? TC
what the hell, whats with all the updates its freaken crazy i cant keep up with them! But i suppose its a good thing :-D
They appear to be bending over backwards to make AnyDVD work with other older, non supported ripping/burning programs such as DVD Shrink.
the history info.. anydvd 5.8.1.1, 1-7-2006 - New: Improved the function to remove unreferenced VOBUs. This fixes problems (Error message "invalid navigation structure") with DVDShrink and Nero Recode with some titles. - Fix: Alpha DVD copyprotection detection. Some titles (e.g., "The Fifth Element - Remastered Deluxe Edition" R2, German) were incorrectly identified as protected with the "Settec AlphaDVD" copy protection. - Updated languages
some info ye might like.. History of DVD copy protections (not CSS): The first AnyDVD version supporting Sony Arccos was version 4.0.4.1 from September 2004. If I remember correctly, the first Sony Arccos titles were released in Summer 2004. About the same time some titles with the "Puppetlock" protection were first released. Sony's marketing blurb: http://www.sonydadc.com/products.copy.arccos.go Most newer titles from Sony Pictures (and the companies they own, like Columbia TriStar, MGM) are Sony Arccos protected, but Arccos has recently been seen on non-Sony Pictures DVDs as well. Support for "Settec Alpha DVD" (a protection created by a LG spinoff in Korea) was added to AnyDVD in January 2005. Settec Alpha DVD marketing blurb: http://www.settec.co.kr/eng/pro_alphadvd.htm Madagascar (US) is not Sony Arccos protected. It is protected by Macrovision RipGuard. The first RipGuad protected title was discoverd around November 2005 ("Vet Hard", R2, Netherlands). As Universal and Macrovision work closely together (see press release: http://www.macrovision.com/company/...18 PST 2005 ), most new Universal US DVDs are now RipGuard protected. Macrovision marketing blurb: http://www.macrovision.com/products...ard/index.shtml A new copy protection "ProtectDVD" is announced here: http://www.protectdisc.com/With_FL/html/products.html AnyDVD does not support this protection yet, as we were not able to purchase a disc with this protection. Some people believe, that the rental version of "The Keeper" R2 (Italian) has this protection. We don't know if this rumour is true or false. We were not able to purchase this disc, so we cannot verify it. __________________ James SlySoft products
