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AnyDVD is falling behind!!!

Copy Protection - or non-standard dvd's full of flaws and defects?

The problem here is that Sony's idea of "copy-protection" is to just load up their dvd's with bogus files, pointers, corrupt/unreadable sectors in a completely non-standard manner. In their zeal to try to confound a few computer programs, they will undoubtedly also confound various player programs, dvd drives and standalone dvd players as well in the process. As long as Sony continues to put out garbage like this to the marketplace, one should think twice before purchasing their products and inflicting them on your equipment.
The only enjoyable part here was learning that some of their own Sony branded players were effected also. A small piece of justice - in a Sony sea of nonsense.
 
Rich86 said:
A small piece of justice - in a Sony sea of nonsense.
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Yes, and a good laugh as well. I really hope that their actions fire back at them. I really hope that the Blu-ray format will become a great failure (as it is very dangerous to have content provider & technology provider & equipment manufacturer in one company: all Sony)
BTW, after the PS3 owners have tried some BD movies (and probably noticed that the picture sucked, cause Sony didn't deliver a HD cable with the PS3) HD DVD is gaining momentum again. Sweet.
I really hope that the PS3 will fail and Sony will start to think over their strategy. Stopping to treat customers like dirt would be a good start.
 
Well said! I hope HD DVD continues to do well as it's a much more consumer friendly format than BluRay. (NOTE: I didn't say it was A consumer friendly format, just that it's moreso than BluRay). I just wish the studios would either start releasing in both formats or just all pick one. I look at what's on BluRay and it irritates me that the same titles are not available on HD DVD. The consumer is truly losing in this war.
 
SamuriHL said:
Well said! I hope HD DVD continues to do well as it's a much more consumer friendly format than BluRay. (NOTE: I didn't say it was A consumer friendly format, just that it's moreso than BluRay). I just wish the studios would either start releasing in both formats or just all pick one. I look at what's on BluRay and it irritates me that the same titles are not available on HD DVD. The consumer is truly losing in this war.
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The industry loses as well - because many folks (me included) will not even enter the high-def arena until the industry settles on a single format, and prices drop to something approaching reasonable and worthwhile. My family will continue to enjoy watching upconverted standard dvd's displaying on our 1080p lcd tv until then. This consumer isn't losing - we're perfectly happy as we are - Sony just doesn't get much of our money these days.
 
Rich86 said:
The industry loses as well - because many folks (me included) will not even enter the high-def arena until the industry settles on a single format, and prices drop to something approaching reasonable and worthwhile. My family will continue to enjoy watching upconverted standard dvd's displaying on our 1080p lcd tv until then. This consumer isn't losing - we're perfectly happy as we are - Sony just doesn't get much of our money these days.
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That is a fair and valid point. I was lucky enough to be able to get an HD DVD drive for my Xbox 360 for my b-day this year so I decided it was time to start buying HD DVD's when available rather than standard DVDs so I can build a library up. What I'm seeing disturbs me...this war is costing them sales because I refuse to buy into BluRay. So yes, they are indeed losing even with someone who's willing to spend the money simply because the movie isn't available in the format I choose. Idiots.
 
I'm there too.... regular DVD is fine by me until they get it together. And if Sony wins - I'll STAY with regular DVD.

-W
 
Why no problems with AnyDVD?

I'm one of those people who's eyes register even very slight pixelation in a heartbeat. I've read the trouble people have had with Casino Royal and others. I know everybody has their own favorite configuration, but the few times I've had trouble with the copy protection in backing up a DVD, it has been resolved every time either directly by Slysoft tech support or by the forum. My success rate using AnyDVD with CloneDVD is 100% over a year and a half's use, meaning that there is not a single title, even a few of which the original would not successfully play--after using AnyDVD and CloneDVD I had clear, smooth video. Using DVD Shrink prior to that, I had variable results. My point is, user's individual system physical structure, configuration, and on-board software seems to me to be as much an issue as "AnyDVD doesn't work with this or that movie or this encoding". By the way, the ability to split menus is very helpful not only, as someone said earlier, to put the movie on 1 disk and special features on another, but when recording episodes from a TV series--in which dividing episodes onto 2 or more disks is necessary (4 hours of episode compressed to one disk is pixelation heaven, as you know). Anyway, just wanted to point out that, if AnyDVD has great problems with the movies discussed on the forum, why have I had no trouble with copying those same movies on a system that is about 6 years old (P4 2.26 on an Intel board with 1 gig ram and a dedicated 80 gig second HD)?
 
Cycat said:
Anyway, just wanted to point out that, if AnyDVD has great problems with the movies discussed on the forum, why have I had no trouble with copying those same movies on a system that is about 6 years old (P4 2.26 on an Intel board with 1 gig ram and a dedicated 80 gig second HD)?
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Two things come to mind: user error and/or system-specific incompatibilities. Slysoft cannot account for every single system configuration out there. There are bound to be problems here and there (ie some Lite-On drives, etc).

My system is far from top of the line. It's a P4 2.4 Ghz with 512 MB PC1066 RDRAM. I'll sooner build a new system than waste any money on buying more RAM. Nonetheless, my system functions just fine with AnyDVD and CloneDVD.
 
Cycat said:
Anyway, just wanted to point out that, if AnyDVD has great problems with the movies discussed on the forum, why have I had no trouble with copying those same movies on a system that is about 6 years old (P4 2.26 on an Intel board with 1 gig ram and a dedicated 80 gig second HD)?
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Some systems, mainly prebuilts, have varying problems with varying softwares and AnyDVD is no exception. I have made well over 1000 backups using AnyDVD and Shrink and I have yet to get a bad copy. With the new Sony discs I have had to resort to a different decrypter that will work with Shrink and now I use that decerypter with all of my backups.........with 100% success.
 
AnyDVD vs. DVDShrink

Cycat said:
I'm one of those people who's eyes register even very slight pixelation in a heartbeat. I've read the trouble people have had with Casino Royal and others. I know everybody has their own favorite configuration, but the few times I've had trouble with the copy protection in backing up a DVD, it has been resolved every time either directly by Slysoft tech support or by the forum. My success rate using AnyDVD with CloneDVD is 100% over a year and a half's use, meaning that there is not a single title, even a few of which the original would not successfully play--after using AnyDVD and CloneDVD I had clear, smooth video. Using DVD Shrink prior to that, I had variable results. My point is, user's individual system physical structure, configuration, and on-board software seems to me to be as much an issue as "AnyDVD doesn't work with this or that movie or this encoding". By the way, the ability to split menus is very helpful not only, as someone said earlier, to put the movie on 1 disk and special features on another, but when recording episodes from a TV series--in which dividing episodes onto 2 or more disks is necessary (4 hours of episode compressed to one disk is pixelation heaven, as you know). Anyway, just wanted to point out that, if AnyDVD has great problems with the movies discussed on the forum, why have I had no trouble with copying those same movies on a system that is about 6 years old (P4 2.26 on an Intel board with 1 gig ram and a dedicated 80 gig second HD)?
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There is little to no question that Elby/Slysoft's products work very well together. I don't believe anyone has ever questioned that, except for the occasional problem that crops up and is addressed quite promptly. And if CloneDVD2 provides you all the tools, flexibility and re-authoring power you have any interest in, and you do not increase the compression of titles to any appreciable degree, you should surely be very happy with that software combination.

However, there is no doubt that DVDShrink offers far more powerful re-authoring capabilities and improved transcoding using its deep analysis capability. Slysoft customers who use AnyDVD and value these powerful DVDShrink capabilities will probably continue to clamor for Slysoft to find a way to process Sony's totally non-compliant dvd products (why Sony can even keep the DVD logo on their stuff is beyond me) to create a fully DVD Standard compliant output for programs like DVDShrink to handle.
 
Rich86 said:
However, there is no doubt that DVDShrink offers far more powerful re-authoring capabilities and improved transcoding using its deep analysis capability. Slysoft customers who use AnyDVD and value these powerful DVDShrink capabilities will probably continue to clamor for Slysoft to find a way to process Sony's totally non-compliant dvd products (why Sony can even keep the DVD logo on their stuff is beyond me) to create a fully DVD Standard compliant output for programs like DVDShrink to handle.
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I have discovered new ways of doing that but given the current atmosphere surrounding freeware DVD utilities and their authors, I'm highly hesitant about posting them. Nevertheless, I sent my discovery to James in hopes that he can make use of it as maybe a temporary fix for DVD Shrink users. It's really quite easy to do and once he looks at the method he might be able to emulate what the freeware util is doing within AnyDVD's ripper functionality. Unless, of course, he's close to finishing the AnyDVD Ginormous Kick Bootie stand alone ripper...then we're golden. :)
 
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