Warner Bros. Announces Exclusive Suport of Blue Ray.

[LordTheNightKnight]

makingmusic476 said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

makingmusic476 said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

makingmusic476 said:
I can't wait to see LotR on Blu. New Line will give it a Blu-Ray specific encode now, instead of porting over the low bitrate HD DVD bitrate like Warner has been doing for all it's releases.

Isn't the bitrate is to squeeze it all on one disc, not due to HD-DVD matching?

The first Blu-Ray specific encode from either studio was New Line's Shoot 'Em Up, released just a few days ago. If that wasn't a hint at things to come, I don't know what was, lol.

Lol? Now I'm wondering if you are really about blu-ray over gloating.

 

I'm confused about that first bit...

I mean that blu-ray releases tend to be on one disc, while HD-DVD releases tend to be on two. Since a blu-ray release would have to squeeze the movie along with the extras, something would have to be dropped to fit in the higher bitrate, unless they wise up and realize only blu-ray fanboys care about multi-disc releases.

And as to the second bit, I was just pointing out that Shoot 'Em Up may have been more than just a fluke/coincidence.

Okay, I stand corrected.

 

Not all BDs are single disc releases. All three Pirates of the Caribbean films have been two disc releases, with the first disc dedicated purely to the video, and the second to extras. The same goes for Spiderman 3. The top tier PQ releases so far have been two disc Blu-Ray releases, along with the occasional single disc release that has few extras.

As for the Lord of the Rings, the movies are roughly four hours each for the extended editions, and I'm not even sure if they could fit one on a single HD DVD. A blu-Ray release would at least have two discs per film, if not more, considering the amount of extras released with the EEs on DVD, and the fact that they'll problem add even more extras to the HDM releases. Unless they keep all extras in SD, which would totally suck.

That's another advantage that Blu-Ray's space gives it. All the extras on PotC3, SM3, and HP5 were in HD, where as most HD DVD releases have SD releases, including the HD DVD version of HP5.

So some are on two discs, and they did catch on. Good. 

Now space is not the reason HD-DVD extras on in HD, not if they are on the second disc. They can easily be 1080p, just with the bitrate being 13mbs, same as the main film. It just seems to be studios holding back on extras, the way they just started with blu-ray, and the fact that aside from web features and PiP, few exclusive features are available for release on either format.