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Paramount has finally and officially confirmed the details of its Blu-ray plans by confirming titles which will be released in June. Paramount has said in a statement:

“Paramount Home Entertainment continues to focus on the consumer and to explore avenues that allow fans to get more out of their home entertainment experience,” said Kelley Avery, President of Worldwide Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures. “We will have a strong slate of titles for Blu-ray release throughout the year worldwide and are enthusiastic about expanding the format’s offerings for a broad consumer audience while delivering an experience that goes beyond what viewers love about DVD.”

Titles confirmed so far are: Face Off, Next, Bee Movie, Cloverfield, There Will Be Blood & The Spiderwick Chronicals.

This is all great news for the Blu-ray camp.

SlySoft has just released updated their AnyDVD software which now alows anyone to copy Blu-ray DVDs using the AnyDVD Ripper. In the release information it is confirmed that they removed the ‘BD+ not supported’ warning. This is because all available BD+ titles can be copied with AnyDVD ripper, or can be watched on HTPC without HDCP using PowerDVD 3104 and AnyDVD. Reports also indicate, that burned BD+ titles work on PS3 and standalone players as well.

Some info: BD+ is a seperate component of the Blu-ray Disc Digital Rights Management system. It has been developed by Cryptography Research Inc. and is based on their SPDC concept. BD+ is basicaly a small virtual machine embedded in authorised players and allows content providers to include executable programs on Blu-ray discs.