Yea, that's the thing, all the magical thinking is pointless once you start making movie only backups. There's nothing on that backup that can cause anyone with a non-cinavia player any kind of issue. That's the point I keep trying to make and is somehow getting lost in translation I think. Even with my paranoia theory of BD-J being used to enhance cinavia checking in the future (unlikely, but, at least possible from a technical standpoint), a movie only backup eliminates that, as well. What's NOT technically possible is that popping in a disc is suddenly going to update your player with cinavia automagically. I don't mind speculation if it's possible from a technical standpoint, but, when we get into "magical thinking" I start to get annoyed simply because there's so much FUD around cinavia already. Admittedly my "paranoia theories" don't help that, but, at least they're actually possible.
And I admit when I write them that they're speculation and not very likely to happen. Simply that they're possible. What's being proposed about popping a disc in and suddenly all your backups are coasters is not. That's the difference that I'm trying to drive home here. Cinavia itself is a very simple concept. Embed a signal in the audio, have the player check for it, verify that the disc is a trusted source. That's *IT*. My suggestion that BD-J could be used to enhance the checking is just what I said...paranoia theory. I can take it further....and this is TECHNICALLY possible but incredibly unlikely. But think about this one for a minute. They include a list of players that are known to be Cinavia-enabled with a certain firmware level. Just a list...not actual firmware updates. The BD-J code checks the firmware level and displays a "you must update your firmware to play this disc" message. Is that likely? Oh God no. Is it possible? Sure.
That being said, guess what...my movie only backup concept still isn't affected by it. Why? Cause there's NOTHING but the movie on the disc. The cinavia signal is still embedded, sure, but, if the player ain't looking for it, it's harmless (other than theoretical audio quality loss. I'm not going there....). So yes, movie only backups....I think until we get CloneBD, that's the safest way to go. Not that it matters with current discs. None of the crap I've mentioned has been done, is likely to be done, or is even on the radar as far as we know.