New Blu-ray titles: Kingdom of Heaven 1st 50 gb dual layer (1 Viewer)

[PeterTHX]

Umm. Blu-ray is a STORAGE format. Not a HD format per se. It happens to have enough space and datarate for HD material.

So storing large amounts of SD material on a single disc is appealing to many companies.

 

[DaViD Boulet]

Correct.

Personally I'd *love* to have season sets of SD material on a single disc for full-access to all episodes. I doubt I'd buy any of my SD sets over again... but for new sets that I have yet to purchase... that would be cool.

 

[JediFonger]

for storing SD material on BluRay's physical spex, i hope they don't use straight up MPEG2. use AVC or VC-1. that way you can fit a ton more SD-DVD in there.

 

[DaViD Boulet]

Agreed. That would improve PQ as well by avoiding typical MPEG-2 realted artifacts like edge ringing and mosquito noise.

 

[MatthewA]

I'd buy SD shows again if they added more extras (good ones) and, where necessary, provided unedited episodes where cut ones had been before (Sony, Lion's Gate, and now Warner, this means you!).

What is the standard bit rate for SD on VC-1 anyway?

 

[Chris S]

Would the Blu-ray spec allow for a small upgrade compared to the SD discs? Such as 570p versus 480p?

 

[Ed St. Clair]

"Umm"...
HD DVD can do that!
And do it better today & yesterday, with advanced codec & more space!!!

So, again, what was your point of posting on the HD software forum (on the subject of "flipping") about a potential SD release?

 

[MarekM]

so far......... 50GB TITLES...

Click OUT (Sony)
The searchers 31.10.2006 (Warner)
Unforgiven 31.10.2006 (Warner)
Black Hawk Down 14.11.2006 (Sony)
Kingdom of Heaven 14.11.2006 (Fox)
Layer Cake TBA 14.11.2006 (Sony)
Superman Returns 28.11.2006 (Warner)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 12.12.2006 (Sony)
THE DESCENT (Lionsgate) on December 26th
World Trade Center TBA (Warner)
I think Chicken Little (Disney)
Pearl Harbor (Disney)
POTC1 will all be BD50 (Disney)
Ghost in the shell 2: innosence
Bridge of the river kwai 50gb (Sony)
narnia (Disney)

16x

 

[BrettB]

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