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Blu-ray Hooray

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Keep Tunned for more HD Format pummeling in the next months!!

Wow! Big news. Can't wait for BR drives to show up In new Mac S I think we see them at MW SF!!! Super duper ./ Ha ha lol I'll take too

No, no, this is good news. It is, it really is. I, for one, can tell you that, personally, I'm really hoping for de release of "The Collected Works of Joey Heatherton" on Blu-Ray disc. It would . . . bring meaning to my wretched existence. Because, you know . . .

THAT BITCH COULD REALLY SHAKE IT!!!

YEH-HEH-HEHESSSSSSSSSSSS!!! What? You want MORE?!?!? Come on, bring it onnnnnn, people!

Die HD DVD Die. Ha Ha Ha.

Long Live BR

More, Triumph, More!

meh. Sony is evil... Microsoft is more... Apple supports Blu-Ray (btw, WHY drop the "e"... I hate cheesy Japanese marketing), so I guess I'll cheer for it but don't expect any enthusiasm.

What? No porn titles?? Somethings gonna have to change!

See here's the problem. None of these movies are were filmed with HD cameras. It's not a true HD sources. This is a rip off. It's going to be very long while until you see a true HD picture.

And the other thing that gets me is when people buy 27" HD capable, widescreen T.V. sets. An HD image is pointless at that size. What a waste of money.

And are these flixs MPEG 2? Because that's what Sony is going to use for their Blu-Ray discs.

Wikipedia, the fountain of all knowledge, told me that the 'e' was dropped so that it could be copyrighted. Same goes for Phillips' 'Compact Disc' (as opposed to disk).

nrz, that's exactly what I was thinking but the menus should look great. So what's all this gonna cost?

nrz,

You can quibble about the "film-look" vs. the "video-look," but nothing is more high res than film. Even the very earliest films are more high def than high def.

- Steven

I hope 24P dies away. I'd prefer 30P acquisition @ 1080i or 1080p delivery.

By nrz (non-return to zero encoding?):
"See here's the problem. None of these movies are were filmed with HD cameras. It's not a true HD sources. This is a rip off. It's going to be very long while until you see a true HD picture."

Movies will most likely NEVER be "filmed" in HD (either 720 or 1080) the digital cinema standard (http://www.dcimovies.com/DCI_Digital_Cinema_System_Spec_v1.pdf) is for 2048x1080 and 4096x2160. Neither fit the 1920x1080 or 1280x720 of HD content.

As for film, it depends upon how it is scanned and imported.

None of the formats (either the digital cinema [1.9:1) or either of the film (1.85:1 or 2.35:1) formats) fits the aspect ratio of HDTV (1.78:1). So, we may never have anything other than TV shows done originally in HD formats.

Yet, there is plenty of resolution in normal cinema film to take full advantage of the HD formats. Don't worry that the historical film were not done in HD.

By D-21:
"And are these flixs MPEG 2? Because that's what Sony is going to use for their Blu-Ray discs."

The story being put forward is that Sony (and the Blu-ray Disk Association) believes getting studios to switch to BDA disks and to MPEG-4 Part 10 at the same time is simply too big a leap. Supposedly, Sony believes the BDA will have a much higher (and faster) adoption rate if they get providers to switch to BDA Disks while using their current MPEG-2 techniques then get them to switch to the newer codecs at some time in the not too distant future.

Sony's and the BDA's stated plan is to get every provider to eventually move to 1080p/60 and MPEG-4 Part 10 (or Microsoft's VC-1 if they must), but that won't happen for some time.

Anyone remember when we were promised dual-layer dual-sided DVDs packing 15GB? Wah hoppen? Will Blu-ray really hit 50GB any time soon?

Bill Gates and the kids in Redmond won't like this news.

I reckon they've got problems with Blu-Ray which is why they've gone so hard for HD DVD.

Yeah, Macaday: Microsoft's "problem" is that Blu-Ray uses Java and not Microsoft software for the menuing system.

I'm all for more storage, but most people don't care about HD movies. DVDs are good enough. It's convenience that most people want. Hence people will pay for low resolution downloads if they become easy to get to the big screen TV. HD movies will be a nich.

I agree in general with Shadowself except for one point: "Movies will most likely NEVER be "filmed" in HD"
Cinema released films are being shot on HD Cams in Europe (& a small but growing number in the US & Canada).

Generally at present they are movies with budgets of less than $5,000,000. Because of budget constraints it makes sense to shoot on HD & then do a 35mm Print from that in widescreen format (Basically crop the top & or bottom of the HD shot) as it can save money in post depending on circumstances.

The objective of film studios & distributors is to have a complete HD work flow from film prep to release, saving time & money by eliminating "physical film".

It will take time for HD to completely take over (some estimates are 10 to 15 years). But as the cameras improve (Hd cameras still have serious problems with whites in wide open spaces) & Directors of photography gain more confidence with HD it will become the norm.

The league of extrordinarily inane movies? Please, give us some good stuff to put on my new media center Mac!