Many of the Blu-rays that I would like are only available in the UK (region B). I live in the USA (region A).
If I was to purchase the region B Blu-rays, how affective is AnyDVD HD at removing the region coding, so that I can play the Blu-rays on my US Sony Blu-ray player?
Here are two threads about it where the industry has abused there own rules and AnyDVD HD has solved that problem.
https://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?63079-Country-code-locked-disc
https://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?63296-Remove-Blu-ray-country-code-option-in-settings.
I have a number of region "B" discs and at one time I would burn their content to a rewritable 50Gig Blu-ray with the region code removed, they would then play on my region "A" stand-alone player just fine.
I also found that 95% of the time it was the DVD that was region locked that was the problem, most, but not all Blu-rays are region free.
One that isn't is "City Of Ember" this was only released on Blu-ray in the UK and is definitely region "B".
You may have a new problem though, and that is Cinavia. Region "B" discs that contain Cinavia will be muted on a Cinavia enabled player even with the region code removed.
How old is your Blu-ray player, if it was manufactured before February 2012, it won't be Cinavia enabled, however check your brands support page and the on-line manual to be sure ?
Because of the drawn out process of burning and the Cinavia problem, I now just use a computer to play my Blu-rays.
This way I can just use AnyDVD HD on the fly or even just use a free Blu-ray player that doesn't detect regions, but you will have to live with Blu-ray menus.
Power DVD (as you may know) will play Blu-ray menus, and AnyDVD HD can take care of any Cinavia problems of course.
EDIT:
If you mouse over and right click on "Remove Blu-ray Region Code" it will give some important instructions.
Make sure and have this selection ticked when creating the ISO with region "B" Blu-rays.