Not even four weeks have gone by since the release of AnyDVD HD, software used to circumvent the copy protection the next generation DVD format "HD-DVD". Today SlySoft announces a new version of AnyDVD HD which now also supports the authoritative, SONY-developed Blu-Ray(BD) format. And also the Blu-Ray regional code is removed.
Since the Blu-Ray functions were integrated into AnyDVD HD there will be no separate "BD" version of the software and AnyDVD HD will support both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.
Giancarlo Bettini, CEO at SlySoft: "Since it was our firm conviction that the first copyable format would prevail in the end, our original intention was actually to support only HD-DVD. However, since the introduction of AnyDVD HD we have received so many customer inquiries about Blu-Ray that we simply couldn't close our eyes to this wish."
James Wong, an AnyDVD developer:"SONY will see this with a mixed bag
of sentiments. On the one hand, Blu-Ray is now equally copyable and on
the other hand the market share deck of cards gets reshuffled".
AnyDVD HD can be purchased here. Slysoft is offering discounts up to $20 on bundles of their products again. Enter 'cricket' as coupon code to be eligble. The code is valid till the 19th of March.
Also thanks to GristyMcFisty for using our news submit to report this story to us.
