Running a DVD review website our copy has probably seen as many different disks, from buggy pre-release screeners all the way through to final finished products from every region. Removing DVD Protection Over the years, I've used AnyDVD with countless DVDs. After the reboot, you get a new little fox logo in your system tray, which when you left click brings up the options window, or right click brings up a small menu.
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It would be nice if it never did, especially considering the number of updates can be quite frequent, as these days most people don't do a restart unless there are Windows Update patches to apply, which is admittedly almost becoming as regular as those to AnyDVD.Īnyhow, reboot aside, which is I guess expected for this type of software, is really simple, there are no options to speak of other than the usual which directory to put it in, and whether you want an icon on your desktop.
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When you update the software to a newer version, sometimes it requires a reboot, sometimes not. Installation Over the years I've installed this on Windows XP, Vista 32-bit, Vista 64-bit and now most recently Windows 7 64-bit, without ever coming across a single issue. It is here that AnyDVD HD comes to the rescue, in a completely transparent way. That said, there are still some films in some versions that you can only get in a region other than the one you reside, and some people still wish to rip some of the content of their discs to other media or devices. Also international release dates, at least as far as the US and UK are concerned, have been largely combined to the same week so getting the American version six months before it hits European shores is now less of a pull.
This system has been adopted by many small software houses, it certainly works well for other products where further versions give you new features, but come the expiry of your free updates you are still left with a working product if not an up-to-date one.īlu-ray has to some extent fixed a number of issues, no longer is PAL or NTSC a buying decision, all regions are the same resolutions, thanks in part to the move from CRT to LCD technology.
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Whilst you can still buy an unlimited license for considerably more dough, now when you purchase any of their products you have a sliding scale of prices which let you download updates for between 1 and 4 years. Some things have changed in the time period, most notably a move from the original flat fee pricing structure to a time based system. It only seems like six years ago since I last reviewed AnyDVD from Slysoft, during that time I've watched it regularly updated to resolve any issues, move seamlessly from Windows XP to run without problems under Windows 7 64-bit, so with Blu-ray finally taking off as the next generation format, this seemed a good opportunity to not only revisit this excellent utility but explore what the HD version has to offer.
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