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

[Wayne <Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mal,

Interestingly - the reviews of this range all seem to rave about the
speed being very good between sticking disk in and starting to watch the
movie - didn't realise it was such a problem with blu-ray (not having a
player yet). I havnt kept on top of the 'backing up your dvd's' scene
for a while - last time I looked it was 'feasible' to backup blu-ray but
the problem being that each film had a 'key' that was difficult to
obtain (if not impossible at the time), people were on about hacking
other licensed players to get the key when they play the movie, but
that's as far as I got with the whole blu-ray side of things... Just
seemed a little odd that Sony made a point that the machine runs Java
(if you look at the screen shots of the interface - very psp-esque)


I take it looking at the posts following my original - 'backing up' your
blu-ray disk is now not an issue :) using AnyDVDHD, is it just a case of
'copying' the contents with drag and drop onto your HD? Re-authoring the
'rubbish' (extras) out or re encoding to a single file (mvk?) from that
I guess?

Cheers
Wayne.



Mal Lansell wrote:
> --- 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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