RE: Re: Sony BDP-S550's - built in LAN and Java!

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Been using SlySoft's stuff for a few years now and it's fantastic
"brain
off" "always works" software which I know the geeks love to
say can be
bettered (not sure how - it works perfectly so how does something work
better) for free but I'm lazy and it all looks after itself.

The only downside about Blu-Ray or HD-DVD ripping is that the
"rips" are
about 40 damn gig and unlike CloneDVD which allows you to get rid of all
the
bits that you don't want you're stuck with ripping everything which kinda
gets you back to the stage I was at a few years ago when I was ripping 5Gb
of DVD movies to the biggest drives I could get at the time (160Gb) ...
*sigh* ... just when I's started to get used to whacking 180 full bitrate
movies on a 1Tb drive!

:-D

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Mal Lansell
> Sent: 14 December 2008 20:54
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Sony BDP-S550's - built in LAN and Java!
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Wayne <Wayne@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > I've had a little rummage and other than these things getting
very
> good
> > reviews generally, nothing on adding extra 'home-brew' coding for
> them.
> >
>
> I've no idea what the LAN socket is for, but the Java reference is
> most likely due to the use of Java to encrypt Blu-Ray disks, and not
> an indication that the player can run custom code.
>
> The encryption is horrendous - many players take up to a minute to
> start playing a disk because of it.  It's a typical case of Sony
> sticking it to the legitimate consumer while completely failing to
> reduce piracy - Blu-Ray encryption can be easily removed using
> Slysof's AnyDVDHD (including this Java-based BD+ encryption that was
> supposed to take 10 years to crack).
>
> Which reminds me, if anyone feels they might need to decrypt Blu-Ray
> disks in the future (for streaming from a home server, for example),
> you should get a copy of AnyDVDHD now - in the new year, Slysoft are
> changing their pricing to an annual subscription basis.  People who
> buy it before then will the updates for free.
>
>
>
>
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