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FaRmLaNd on 14 October 2010
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zuvuyeay said:
FaRmLaNd said:
zuvuyeay said:
FaRmLaNd said:

Was thinking of buying the DVD. Haven't gone HD yet. Which is ironic considering I work for Sony in their DVD/BR mastering department LOL


come on farmland get with the times o-0

Will be getting an HD television soon! I promise!

Its weird, my studio at work has hd and professional broadcast reference monitors, 5.1 surround sound with proper high end studio speakers etc. Then I come home and watch my DVD's on a fish bowl tv with stereo sound. Talk about juxtaposition...

well maybe you're sick of it at work,you must get take homes copies surely 

what's the mastering dept,do you work on the original copies of films or something

Yeah, we make the DVD's and BR's. My department basically hadles authoring (designing the menus etc), quality control (watching and testing the DVDs and BR's), ingest (capturing the features off tapes), encoding and bit budgeting, editing, designing the graphics for the releases etc.

We don't just do Sony's releases either, we also work on universal pictures, the ABC (government broadcasting corporation), pretty much everything really. For example earlier this week I was working on the Twilight Exclipse release for both BR and DVD. Aswell as a new Bonsu disk for New Moon.

We also manufacture the disks aswell (though I'm not involved in that process). We make about 10 million disks a month, most of which are DVD's and BR's but we also manufacture PS3 games and cd's.