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Sony Completes First Full-Length Blu-ray Disc

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hot-off-the-presses dept.

john writes "Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced that authoring has been completed on the first Blu-ray Disc (BD) to contain a full-length, high-definition feature film. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle was compressed and authored in MPEG 2 full high-definition (1920 x 1080) and is now being shipped to BD hardware companies for player testing."

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  1. Boycott Sony by dan+of+the+north · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Not forever, just until January 02 /06

    If Sony misses out on the Christmas rush perhaps they, and the rest of the E! industry, will figure out that their customers don't like to be harrassed.

    Columbia Records, Epic Records, Legacy Recordings, Sony Classical, Sony Nashville, Sony Wonder, Sony Ericsson, Sony Music, Sony Pictures, Sony Electronics & PlayStation.

    1. Re:Boycott Sony by quarkscat · · Score: 3, Insightful

      IMHO, Sony deserves more "pain and suffering" than just a boycott until January 02, 2006. Based upon (1) their membership positions (leading) within the RIAA and MPAA, and (2) their blatantly illegal use of spyware/malware DRM, I will not be purchasing ANY SONY-branded PRODUCTS for at least until 2007.

      If enough consumers "vote with their dollars", not only SONY will get the message, but so will the other members of the **AA. Who knows, maybe even "our*" (*not really ours) legislators will get the message. There used to be something called "fair use" under copyright law that has been turned upside-down by DMCA. The currently inevitable emergence of personal computers and consumer electronics with embedded DRM, as well as the upcoming MS Windows (DRM Edition AKA Vista), "fair use" will be a fond distant memory.

  2. It makes sense by sterno · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First of all it's one of those spectacular blockbuster type movies with lots of explosions. So it'll be a good test for what the format is capable of. Second, and this is key, they won't have to worry about anybody trying to pirate the first Blu Ray disc because nobody will want it :)

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  3. Is this better than 1080i? by EMIce · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Will this look any better than a movie broadcast in 1080i and played back on an HDTV with 3:2 pulldown detection? I was under the impression that the pull-up done to convert 24fps film into interlaced video is completely reversible, and so 1080 progressive quality is already available through 1080i broadcasts.

    It will be nice to have discs of HD content eventually, but I don't see what is so impressive that makes this worthy of coverage.

    1. Re:Is this better than 1080i? by MikeBabcock · · Score: 2, Insightful

      If you believe the 1080i broadcast of that 30mm film was actually in 1080i and not just upsampled from the DVD version, you're probably mistaken.

      TV broadcasts that are actually 720p or 1080i really are HDTV. DVDs are higher resolution than normal broadcast television but they're not HD. This is the first movie published on disc (not ripped) that is actually in HD as source material.

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  4. Angels indeed by FSFunky · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't care what anyone says I will gladly watch Drew Barrymore in 1920x1080.

  5. Re:Who cares? by sgent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Both formats have DRM -- true. But only one format has a company behind it with a recent history of installing backdoors to enforce and monitor DRM. They lied once, they wondered why anyone should care, they haven't yet apologized, and they want me to adopt their technology? I don't know about you, but I don't like opening massive holes in my servers. Microsoft isn't exactly golden, but they haven't done anything recent to piss me off. Nor have they done something quite so atrocious -- what Sony has done to date with their Rootkit issues far outweighs (IMHO) anything Microsoft has done with their monopoly. One is criminal, the other civil.

  6. Re:and who by roseblood · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it's a SONY Blue-ray-DVD-drive then the rootkit comes in the firmware and drivers. No fear from a disk based rootkit.

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  7. Re:Why would you believe sony? by iso · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is not a stunt. I work at a company where I'm actively involved in Blu-Ray (and HD-DVD) related development. We need to be getting these discs (actually we needed them months ago) to verify a lot of the work we're doing, and to make sure we're optimizing in the right place. Blu-Ray may still be a ways off, but a lot of the software and hardware development needs well underway now to make that happen.

  8. No, this was an important step! by spywhere · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With all the films they had to choose from the one they pick to show Charlie's Angels 2? Nice way to kill the format.

    This was a necessary test of the format:
    there was concern whether something that awful would stick to a Blu-Ray DVD.

  9. CAN you say LOCK IN by andydread · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The blue-ray format is Sonys attmept to lockup the market and remove the ability to record out of the hands of the comsumer and small musician/studio. they tried it with the DVD format and was partially sucessful. Now with the fully encrypted blue-ray cd and the fact that it deliberately difficult to record data to, the consumer will suffer. It is designed in such a way that only very expensive (licensed) equipment can write to the disc. This is a very consumer unfriendly format and I for one will not give Sony the Draconians any more of my money in any way shape or form. Remember If you buy Sony products you are a criminal. At least Sony thinks so.