Antigua, West Indies - February, 17th 2007


AnyDVD beats HD-DVD and AACS

After a Beta test-phase of a mere ten days, conducted by a few chosen scene gurus, SlySoft announced the first official release of AnyDVD HD.

The change-log, although not so significant at first glance, abounds in understatement:

- New: added HD DVD and AACS support
(registered users need an upgrade key for HD DVD & AACS support)
- New: added support for new versions of SONY’s Arccos protection
to the option "Remove Protection based on unreadable Sectors"
- Added AnyDVD HD Ripper
- Fixed: Problem with multi-angle titles and Sony Arccos protection
- Some minor fixes and improvements
- Updated languages

At first look, the mention of "Added HD DVD and AACS Support"
appears rather "so-so" but behind this annoucement exists a real revolution. For the first time, it is possible for the average user to get around the previously uncrackable AACS copy protection of the new HD-DVD generation with a few simple clicks of the mouse.

Officially, the film industry and the AACS consortium is, of course, not very happy about this development. However, behind closed doors, they are likely pleased to have learned from past experiences with the CD and DVD that the users are now finally able to make unlimited use of this new medium HD DVD, i.e to enjoy his "fair-use rights".
It is expected that a real "boom" will occur with HD-DVDs.

All the same, AnyDVD contains several rather interesting features:

* watch movies over a digital display connection without HDCP-compliant
graphics card and HDCP-compliant display.
* playback those discs on the PC with PowerDVD Ultra which otherwise
would not play or would cause a software crash
* Removes user prohibitions. You can select language and subtitle
tracks without going through the disc's menu.
* Removes parental restrictions.
* Allows you to remove or skip Studio Logos and warning messages.
* With "magic file replacement (tm)" you can remaster any commercial
movie disc using simple XML scripts.
* Includes a UDF 2.5 file ripper; no need to install 3rd party
UDF 2.5 filesystem under Windows XP.

AnyDVD HD is indeed a "must have" utility for the serious home theater enthusiast using a media center or home-theater PC.

"The way AnyDVD HD addresses and solves the problem doesn't have much in common with the discoveries of individual members of the OpenSource community in reading AACS keys from the USB bus", says Peer van Heuen, one of SlySoft’s lead developers. He adds further, "As one can expect from SlySoft, our solution works fully automatic with all known titles while the so-called hacker tools require laborious reading out of memory or the USB bus. This is not to say that their efforts are completely fruitless; it’s just that ours need to be user-friendly.
It’s just that simple."

To add icing on the cake, Peer van Heuen takes particular joy in stating that SlySoft was ready with AnyDVD HD in an incredibly short period of time. He adds, "We could only begin our development some weeks ago and we are immensely proud to get this product out to the users so quickly. This speaks to the commitment to our users: get good and easy-to-use products out on the market fast!"

Tom Xiang, Marketing Director: "When we considered Blu-Ray, our strategy was simply to initially support HD-DVD and await further developments in the marketplace. Already during the beta phase we got many inquiries about Blu-Ray so we decided to go ahead and also provide support for this as soon as possible. Blu-Ray employs the same AACS process as HD-DVD. An implementation was really just a matter of form. A beta version is planned for availability this quarter."


Links:
SlySoft Products | Copy Movie DVDs with AnyDVD and CloneDVD
SlySoft AnyDVD HD
http://www.slysoft.com/download/changes_anydvd.txt

AnyDVD HD Logos and Boxshot:
http://beta.slysoft.com/img/logo/logo_anydvdhd.gif
http://beta.slysoft.com/img/logo/log...hd_800x800.gif
http://beta.slysoft.com/img/boxshots...t_anydvdhd.gif

About AnyDVD:
AnyDVD works in the background to automatically remove the copy protection of a DVD movie as soon as it's inserted into the drive, allowing you then to backup the movie using a DVD backup tool such as CloneDVD and CloneDVD mobile. You can also remove the RPC region code, thereby making the movie region free and viewable on any DVD player and with any DVD player software.
But AnyDVD doesn't just stop at DVDs. It also decrypts protected audio CDs to allow you to copy them.
Originally developed by Elaborate Bytes, AnyDVD was acquired by SlySoft in 2003 and has been downloaded more than 15 Million times ...

About SlySoft, Inc.:
SlySoft was founded in 2002 by Giancarlo Bettini and is based in the beautiful Caribbean island Antigua. Our mission at SlySoft Inc. is to produce a line of high quality, user-friendly software tools and drivers for multimedia applications and hardware. We strive to ensure our products are state-of-the art, updating our product line to support the newest innovations in the multimedia industry, as well as those in the computer industry.

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