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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. Great. A movie I never wanted to see anyway. by Pentomino · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Why didn't they try to convert a GOOD movie?

    This almost suggests that Sony doesn't own the rights to any good movies.

    I'm liking Sony less and less.

  2. If they ever have to recall this tainted disc... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ...you will receive media that just contains the rookit.

  3. Sony's new Blu-Ray disc DRM protection by nbahi15 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Sony's brilliant new Blu-Ray disc DRM protection scheme, Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle. Make the content so bad that nobody would care to copy it. On the horizon expect other classics like Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines, and a box set of Best of Slashdot Dupes. Whoops, in a way Best of Slashdot Dupes have already been copied...

  4. Hi-Def! by xshariq · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Sony, now rootkitting in Hi-Def.

  5. Um....yeah by Stupor+Man · · Score: -1, Redundant

    CA2? Blu-ray? Sony? Ah, might be a big seller if they only included the rootkit!

  6. 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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  7. 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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