A moment of praise for AnyDVD HD & BD Rebuilder!

[funnel71]

I almost never post in this forum. I spend much more time reading, but I just had to post and give my praises to these outstanding pieces of software. (AnyDVD HD & BD Rebuilder)

Of course everyone here knows what they do, but why praise from me? Well recently, I went and got 12 Rounds (region A) on blu-ray. I put it in the computer with AnyDVD HD enabled, and powerDVD9 wouldn't play it. I took it to my Pioneer standalone player, and after it got to the main menu, and I pushed PLAY, it just hung at a black screen. The only way to get this disc to play was on the computer, with powerDVD9, and AnyDVD Disabled. That is CRAP!! All of my equipment is up to date with firmware, so there's no reason my stand-alone player shouldn't handle, but they've obviously put something on there (assuming relating to bd-live) that's preventing playback (the pioneer doesn't have bd-live capability, and I prefer it that way).

Anyway, I was able to decrypt the BD with AnyDVD, and after that, was able to rebuild in movie only mode with BD Rebuilder for a perfectly working "movie-only" disc. Had it not been for these pieces of software, I would not have been able to watch this movie at all. I hope Fox gets millions of complaints regarding this. Unfortunately, I think many blu-ray movie watchers use a PS3 which should work.

[jman98]

I'm not sure that BD live hosed you. You may be right, but I'm not sure that that is the problem. PowerDVD has been going downhill in my opinion for years now. Each new release is worse and less functional than the one before it. Hollywood makes them remove more and more functionality with each release. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if PowerDVD one day refused to play any BluRay disc.

Hollywood has a real split personality about BluRay. Part of it wants no playback on anything but standalone players as that would severely cripple or eliminate piracy. Part of it wants playback on PCs as that grows sales. So these two sides fight each other and incompetent Cyberlink (maker of PowerDVD) is caught in the middle where they are forced to make each release less functional to pacify the first group. The second group really does not want a crippled PowerDVD to be hurting BluRay sales, but the first group seems to have the upper hand right now.

[funnel71]

PowerDVD was the only program to play this disc that i had. I just had to disable AnyDVD to do it. My stand-alone player wouldn't even play this thing. It has BonusView, but not BD-Live capability. They really screwed up when they made this movie, but I do agree with you on the PowerDVD thing. I've heard plenty of cases where older versions of the program are working better than the new LOL

[ocgw]

PowerDVD was the only program to play this disc that i had. I just had to disable AnyDVD to do it. My stand-alone player wouldn't even play this thing. It has BonusView, but not BD-Live capability. They really screwed up when they made this movie, but I do agree with you on the PowerDVD thing. I've heard plenty of cases where older versions of the program are working better than the new LOL

Some stand alone BD players need firmware updates to play new titles, check your manual to see if this is the case and how to do it

ocgw

peace