I don't understand how any ripping software like AnyDVD, that was designed to burn SD to your computers hard drive, can somehow be upgraded to burn blu-ray to your hard drive. To copy the blu-ray would you not need to install a burner capable of transferring the blu-ray from your hard drive to a (more expensive) blu-ray disc. When you factor in all the new costs 'm not sure it's worth it.
AnyDVD was made for SD DVD's, but AnyDVD HD was made to handle ripping HD-DVD's and Blu-ray's. BD-ROM drives (read-only) are now less than $100, so it wouldn't cost that much to be able to rip Blu-rays to hard drive. Yes, it would be more expensive to re-burn a copy since BD blanks aren't cheap yet, but there are a lot of people looking to get that movie off of a physical disc and onto some other medium, like a HTPC or video streaming device. For those people, the new costs are worth it.
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I don't understand how any ripping software like AnyDVD, that was designed to burn SD to your computers hard drive, can somehow be upgraded to burn blu-ray to your hard drive. To copy the blu-ray would you not need to install a burner capable of transferring the blu-ray from your hard drive to a (more expensive) blu-ray disc. When you factor in all the new costs 'm not sure it's worth it.
AnyDVD was made for SD DVD's, but AnyDVD HD was made to handle ripping HD-DVD's and Blu-ray's. BD-ROM drives (read-only) are now less than $100, so it wouldn't cost that much to be able to rip Blu-rays to hard drive. Yes, it would be more expensive to re-burn a copy since BD blanks aren't cheap yet, but there are a lot of people looking to get that movie off of a physical disc and onto some other medium, like a HTPC or video streaming device. For those people, the new costs are worth it.