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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. Re:Why MPEG2 by Bad+Boy+Marty · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No, you don't get it. They don't want to put more data or better data on the disc. It only needs to have enough space to hold the lowest resolution they can get away with so that it will forever provide a tolerable experience, thus forcing people to spend $10/person to watch new movies in a theater. From the perspective of the content providers, you exist only to be raped.

    Are any of you smart enough to vote with your wallets?

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  2. Plotless by Dog135 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They chose it because it's one of those movies that's better seen then heard.

    My wife's deaf, but she still likes to go the the theater every once in a while. Just goes to show how important plot is in today's movies.

    Funny thing, she liked Starwars EP1 better BEFORE she saw it captioned.
    "Is the caption messed up, or is Jar-Jar retarded?"

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