imonit, what I meant is that AnyDVD has a reputation of "just working" - stick disc in, wait a second and AnyDVD seamlessly strips off the crypto and region encoding. I own it so I know that this reputation is well deserved. However I also know this is not going to be the case with BD+. Older schemes were vulnerable to a class break, i.e. break one player or one disk and the rest fall like dominoes. BD+ is not like this since schemes are renewable. This recent delay between scheme and crack meant Fox caught 3 weeks with no break and I'm sure it has not gone unnoticed.
If BD+ becomes more prevalent then delays will become the norm and AnyDVD's reputation is going to suffer. It will "just work" except for an ever expanding list of exceptions when it doesn't. At that point the value of AnyDVD will be diminished. Slysoft are also switching to an annual subscription model (most probably due to BD+) which diminishes its value again. Clearly BD+ is costing them money which is one of its intents. People may not be willing to pay for AnyDVD if it only works on *some* blu ray discs but not all.
Maybe Slysoft will keep up or BD+ will be still be a sideshow and not matter too much. But what I suspect is that Fox is the guinea pig for BD+ and once its a proven technology (which it more or less is from a technology and business sense) that others will jump on board. If that happens Slysoft is going to have severe issues keeping up. If I were them, I would be wondering if there is any way to open up their cracking efforts to the community because they will be under severe strain otherwise.
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imonit, what I meant is that AnyDVD has a reputation of "just working" - stick disc in, wait a second and AnyDVD seamlessly strips off the crypto and region encoding. I own it so I know that this reputation is well deserved. However I also know this is not going to be the case with BD+. Older schemes were vulnerable to a class break, i.e. break one player or one disk and the rest fall like dominoes. BD+ is not like this since schemes are renewable. This recent delay between scheme and crack meant Fox caught 3 weeks with no break and I'm sure it has not gone unnoticed.
If BD+ becomes more prevalent then delays will become the norm and AnyDVD's reputation is going to suffer. It will "just work" except for an ever expanding list of exceptions when it doesn't. At that point the value of AnyDVD will be diminished. Slysoft are also switching to an annual subscription model (most probably due to BD+) which diminishes its value again. Clearly BD+ is costing them money which is one of its intents. People may not be willing to pay for AnyDVD if it only works on *some* blu ray discs but not all.
Maybe Slysoft will keep up or BD+ will be still be a sideshow and not matter too much. But what I suspect is that Fox is the guinea pig for BD+ and once its a proven technology (which it more or less is from a technology and business sense) that others will jump on board. If that happens Slysoft is going to have severe issues keeping up. If I were them, I would be wondering if there is any way to open up their cracking efforts to the community because they will be under severe strain otherwise.