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I was referring to the decrypted content. The video is 3840x2160p @ 24fps encoded with HEVC 10-bit, which is very demanding to decode. It takes a pretty beefy CPU (I think my AMD Ryzen 5 6-core could do it), or a fairly recent video card with the right hardware acceleration (and the right...

All of the other restrictions are being enforced by the software player (PowerDVD 17). They are to protect the decryption keys while they are in use, and the decoded video while it is moving through the video hardware out to the monitor (where HDCP 2.2 usage is also mandated). Official players...

Unfortunately I don't have a really good answer for that, since I was ripping to a rather slow NAS. I think it took 2-3 hours, fluctuating between 7 and 10 MB/sec (Megabytes, not megabits). I'll have to do another experiment on a better system to really check the speed (the drive is wrapped up...

Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge: 4 cores / 8 threads. So 8 logical cores. Also, that was while trying to playback the 3840x2160p HEVC 10-bit video file (software decoding), not ripping the disc.

I wasn't really set up to try playback directly from the drive (I pretty much never do that anyway). Were you wondering about the speed of the drive while it was ripping, if it was fast enough for playback?

So the answer to my question is, the firmware update does not add AACS 2.0 support (thus making them official drives), but rather just closes whatever loophole we are currently using (thus making them useless for either purpose). Sad... Well, I intend to enjoy this while it lasts. I've just...

Just curious, when the UHD friendly drives get their firmware updated to become no longer friendly, does this make them official UHD drives, or do they now become useless for both ripping and official UHD playback?

Status Update: Got my copy of Planet Earth II UHD. Hooked up my UHD friendly ASUS BW-16D1HT (3.00 FW). Fired up Windows XP (SP2!) from an old 2GB Compact Flash card. Installed AnyDVD 8.2.2.0. Requested trial version. Loaded Disc #1 of Planet Earth II UHD. AnyDVD scanned the disc, and...

I think this is the reason hacks are likely going to be needed.

I just ordered the Planet Earth II set on UHD Blu Ray to test this out. Does anyone happen to know if it supported yet? I used free shipping, so it may not come for a week.

Awesome! I may go ahead and buy a second drive, just in case, before it is too late. I'm also interested to see if my laptop (Ivy Bridge) drive can read UHD Blu Rays, since ImgBurn reports it as a "BD-RE XL" drive (MATSHITA BD-MLT UJ260 1.00)

I just ordered an ASUS drive, and this is what I see in dmesg (Linux) when I plugged it in: [599616.950385] ata4: hard resetting link [599617.673025] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [599617.677662] ata4.00: ATAPI: ASUS BW-16D1HT, 3.00, max UDMA/133 [599617.717761]...

I think this is the point he is asking. Simply put, AnyDVD HD will work the same way as your old AnyDVD (non-HD) for processing DVD discs. AnyDVD HD is basically the same program that you've already been using, but also has the features to deal with HD discs as well. So if you want to work...

Maybe you could try ripping directly to the NAS if you suspect your SSDs are having problems. Normally, it's not good practice to write large amounts of data (like a Blu Ray ISO) to SSDs on a regular basis, especially if you're not going to keep them there. SSD flash memory cells have a...

Just curious, did you watch the other Hunger Games movies this same way? They've all had this playlist obfuscation protection so this is nothing new. Usually it can take a week or two after the movie is released before all the various versions of the movie out there are correctly identified by...

I think this type of copy protection where the disc appears too large is only found on DVDs. I've never looked at one, but I think 3D Blu Rays also look too big too if you look at just the files on the disc, since multiple files occupy the same data on the disc.

If I may refine your answer slightly, I believe (since I've never used a commercial player or stand alone player with one of these discs) that if it determines that the encryption has been removed, it directs the player to the (usually one) playlist that includes the "copy detected" message, and...

I question the legitimacy of that article, but it's all just speculation until the CPUs come out. I don't run any version of Windows after XP myself, but I might just have to do an experimental install of Windows 7 on a Kaby Lake CPU if/when I get my hands on one. The question may not be "will...

If you dig a little deeper into bitcoin, you'll find that transactions can easily be made down to 0.00000001 bitcoin, or one hundred millionth of a bitcoin (also called a "satoshi"). So when you went to buy AnyDVD, you could be presented with its current price in bitcoin, say 0.1987 BTC. For...

Remember, AnyDVD has never removed HDCP of any sort. Instead, what it does do is remove the need for HDCP. When software players that enforce HDCP (usually the commercial players) are given an unencrypted blu ray folder structure, which is what AnyDVD HD does, they no longer care if HDCP works...