Why go with AnyDvd HD?

[Roycal]

Recycle, I noticed that too. Wolves in sheeps clothing asking questions like "How can I make this work on multiple computers..." etc and they only have the demo version. Or ..."Oh, I want to make sure it works for my wife or son too..", etc. How do you tell the innocent people from the people who want to hack the software and sell it to others? .

As I understand the license, you can install a single AnyDVDHD license on a home server. The only License requirement from Slysoft is that only one computer actually has AnyDVD installed per license. And single user at a time. So for the people who really honestly only using it home, that is a solution for sharing on a local network.

Of course, only the physical DVD/BD and virtual drives on the server's local HDD are in compliance with the license. I.E. you have to install the protected disk or image on the server that has AnyDVDHD installed. You can't run AnyDVD virtually on a network client's physical drives from a server with a single license.

Experts, feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

[Hawk]

Let's not forget anydvd doesn't restrict you from using different tool to process your disc. Also some other solutions bound to restrict to use their application only to process disc.

[steve1942]

first, thanks for responses. Copying Blu-Ray easier than I pictured. Seems like I only need to change burner, upgrade to AnyDVD HD and buy the discs. If I want to make 1:1 copy, I can use my existing 1 Click contract. If I want to save the money by using 25 GB blanks, I use the recommended software mentioned on this sight (which is free). The only question I still have, if the preceding is correct, is copying speed. Is the speed dependent on version of software and brand of blanks or just the blanks? If I've got this figured out, I'll buy the burner and upgrade the Slysoft. The speed issue isn't critical but would like to burn at least at a 4X speed. Thanks for help. And, if I'm still missing something, please let me know.
Steve

[Recycle]

Originally Posted by steve1942

first, thanks for responses. Copying Blu-Ray easier than I pictured. Seems like I only need to change burner, upgrade to AnyDVD HD and buy the discs. If I want to make 1:1 copy, I can use my existing 1 Click contract. If I want to save the money by using 25 GB blanks, I use the recommended software mentioned on this sight (which is free). The only question I still have, if the preceding is correct, is copying speed. Is the speed dependent on version of software and brand of blanks or just the blanks? If I've got this figured out, I'll buy the burner and upgrade the Slysoft. The speed issue isn't critical but would like to burn at least at a 4X speed. Thanks for help. And, if I'm still missing something, please let me know.
Steve

There isn't any software on this site to burn blu-ray FYI not yet but one still in R&D. Anydvd HD will decrypt the blu-ray to created a iso or rip video to disk only. You will have to get the free version of imgburn not from this site to burn the blu-ray back to the blank blu-ray media. Make sure your blu-ray drive burns blu-ray DL media as well as some movies are on 50gig blu-ray if you do 1:1 blu-ray backup.

[Roycal]

Steve1942, Just to clarify, most people are using BD-Rebuilder to shrink BD D/L's to fit on a S/L BD-R. Slysoft's product for shrinking DVD's is CloneDVD and CloneDVD mobile. Slysoft has not released their "CloneBD" for blu-ray format yet.

But, you really need AnyDVDHD regardless of what else you use. AnyDVDHD is the only decrypter that is consistently reliable and worth the premium in price over the questionable cheap clones

For a low price blu-ray burner, I suggest LG and go with the full size 5-1/2" style, not the slim lap top style. More value per buck. If you go with an internal SATA drive, and a 1 or 2TB internal HDD and a desktop PC, you should be able to easily get 4X write speeds. Just make sure you don't overload your power supply and new power supply and fans upgrade is recommended if you're adding drives.

[Adbear]

Not sure why you say go for a PC drive rather than a slimline Blu-ray writer I use a slimline Sony drive and it does more formats than my desktop drive for the around the same price, my slimline drive will write to XL discs which I have to pay premium on in a desktop drive

[Hawk]

Here is how i create blu-ray copy for fair use.

1. Rip disk with anydvd to iso and mount iso to virtual drive.

2. Open Bd-rebuilder and point virtual drive.

3. Choose what to backup and click backup.

4. Wait.... (Depends on system resources) This phase tax out the cpu to max.

5. Once done check and burn with imgburn

[Roycal]

Originally Posted by Adbear

Not sure why you say go for a PC drive rather than a slimline Blu-ray writer I use a slimline Sony drive and it does more formats than my desktop drive for the around the same price, my slimline drive will write to XL discs which I have to pay premium on in a desktop drive

My pricing experience is that most internal slim line drives are more expensive than the equivalent in the 5 1/2" size. Sony (and or XL) drives may be the exception to the rule and Sony does make excellent hardware. On the XL compatibility, the price will probably come down on the PC drives as old inventory is depleted, but those XL disks are around 90 dollars a shot on Amazon US, anyway. Not many people will be willing to pay that much until the price comes down a lot more and by that time, most of the drives will probably be XL compatible.

PS. The average price difference I'm seeing (without XL) is about 20-50 USD or so higher for most slimline vs PC BD burners so it's not that significant if you want the portability of the slimline. Sony is one of the more expensive ones but probably last longer too.