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I don't know what's given you the impression that you'll be able to back up anything from Blu Ray. The battle around "Managed Copy" which is a part of the AACS encryption system is still underway. Even if MC is supported you likely won't have the righs to back up to another optical disc anyways.

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Sonic Solutions has announced professional products supporting HD-DVD as well as Blu-ray, however in their Roxio branded consumer products they have only announced support for Blu-ray so far. You can check for yourself: http://www.sonic.com/about/press/default.aspx

I'm primarily a PC user so thanks for the heads up on Apple's software, with their status as a member of both the DVD forum and BDA it will be interesting to see which format shows up in a Mac first.

The software situation may change before the discs become widely available anyway, but it is curious that all these companies are getting so far out in front in terms of Blu-ray support.

The backup I'm referring to is backing up TO a blu-ray or HD-DVD disc, from existing video on the computer or video from a DVR or camcorder "or any other kind of data for that matter", obviously free of DRM so managed copy being implemented or not would not be relevant to that situation.

Managed copy or no, I haven't heard anything yet about whether or not or how we may be able to back up next generation optical discs onto another disc, or even real details on how managed copy will work exactly but I hope to have more information soon]]>Nov 4th 2005 3:41AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/03/will-software-decide-the-blu-ray-hd-dvd-conflict/http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/03/will-software-decide-the-blu-ray-hd-dvd-conflict/
It's good to see that Blu Ray has some authoring apps coming because HD DVD was actually first with getting out a subset of their authoring environment. Because we're seeing more affordable apps supporting Blu Ray I can only surmise that the BDA is very close on finishing up the touches.

I expect that the first authoring environments for both platforms will be lean at first giving way to more full featured updates as the platform(s) mature.

We video lovers can only cross our fingers and hope for the best. I don't like format wars but there will be a winner eventually]]>Nov 4th 2005 5:41PM