akuma587 on 21 October 2008
Nah, you want them to put it on two discs if at all possible. Many of the "reference" or "Tier 0" quality Blu-Rays out there are 2-disc sets.
It lets them increase the bit rate much higher, so you get a lot less compression artifacts (look at some movies on a BD-25 and not a BD-50 and you will know what I am talking about). It just gives the film more room to breathe, because if you had a perfect digital copy of a film that clocks in around 2 hours it would probably be around 100 gigs or so with audio and everything included.
The 2-discs sets let you get better audio codecs on the disc too, such as a master audio track rather than just your good ol' Dolby 5.1 standard. Master audio tracks take up A LOT of space. Sometimes as much as 10 gigs.
DVD works the exact same way. DVD's on two discs generally look a lot nicer because you have better bit rates. The bigger the screen you watch a movie on the more apparent it becomes when you have a bad bitrate.
To some degree two-disc sets are a marketing ploy too, as people just love feeling like they are getting more for their money. But there really are a lot of practical advantages. Hell, Speed Racer has 3 discs, one for the movie, one for the features, one for the Digital copy. I am way more willing to buy that than just a 1-disc movie with nothing extra. Speed Racer is arguably the best looking Blu-Ray made to date, and part of that has to do with the movie being on its own disc.
If they started to implement 100 Gig Blu-Ray discs, then maybe we could have everything on one disc, but as it is now, I am HAPPY studios choose to put a movie on two discs sometimes. Look at a badly compressed Blu-Ray and you will know what I mean.
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