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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. Who's at the Helm at Sony Today? by ewhac · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "Let's see: I have this new movie delivery technology that plays back films with amazing clarity. But it's early days yet, so I want to show off this technology to its best effect. Hmm, I do own a movie studio...

    "Hey, Ernie! Go over to Columbia/TriStar and get the crappiest, most insultingly inane film released in the last ten years so we can encode it and use it as a BluRay demo. Oh, and also get a copy of Bewitched; we'll be needing it later..."

    Honestly, between this and the DRM infection, I seriously wonder who's driving the company nowadays...

    Schwab

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  2. Why MPEG-2? by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wonder why they didn't use MPEG-4. H.264 (AVC) is expected to be the standard encoding for next-gen formats, so maybe they did MPEG-2 because this is only a test disc, but still. MPEG-4 saves so much space, you could put an HD movie on a DVD of today if you wanted to.

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