I would think James is just keeping an eye out for news that somebody has keaked or otherwise revealed information about AACS 2.0. If he had found some tool that helped him figure out what's going on inside a working UHD Blu-ray player I very much doubt he'd reveal what it was.
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"Exactly".
The least amount of info posted on the forum publically the better.
This make me think of the movie, "The Imitation Game"
Alan Turing built his mechanical computer to "crack" the code of the enigma machine _ it was left running for months with no gain in breaking the code until the Germans got a little careless and kept using the same signature on the encrypted messages _ so the movie goes...
From this they were able to extrapolate enough info to help the computer decrypt things.
And that is my point, until someone who is in control of the DRM gets careless, I don't think AACS 2.0 will ever be circumvented.
"Smurfs 2" had some flaws in those keys (apparently), but not enough to figure out how to get around AACS 2.0 on all discs.
It may have moved things a little closer, but I think there still may be a long way to go.
James isn't about to tell all what he has learned just so the guys at AACS can read what's going on. (an assumption)
That will come soon enough in the UHD version of RedFox _ if that happens.
Personally for me it doesn't matter anymore, I got tired of waiting and went out and bought a Panasonic UB900.
By setting it to output to 1080p allows me to make use of my projectors frame interpolation.
The native 4K panels auto converts it back to 4K.
Any loss in resolution isn't noticeable with the down/up conversion, at least not to me anyway.
If RedFox makes it happen that will be great too, but for now, I'm not sinking any money into UHD on an HTPC, it just doesn't make any sense.
There are many new faces here on the forum, all of them chomping at the bit for RedFox to get around AACS 2.0.
Unfortunately I believe all of them are pirates just waiting to exploit RedFox for all the wrong reasons.
If I was James I might be seriously thinking of dropping this all together.