RSSFirst Blu-ray Movie Disc Completed
By Ed Oswald | Published November 21, 2005, 11:13 AM
Sony Pictures has completed the first full-length Blu-ray disc and will be shipping it to hardware manufacturers for player testing. The movie, "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle," was recorded in MPEG-2 high definition, which offers a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels.
The move by Sony follows recent criticism by Blu-ray detractors over a vague launch date for the next-generation DVD technology. Sony has still not committed to a time frame for public availability, only stating that mass production of Blu-ray movies would begin in the "near future."
If they want to avoid this from being the next laser disc or betamax they better output lower resolutions than 1080... like 480 and 720. Todays TV's can't even display any 1080p video content - even the tv's that have 1080p resolution cannot ACCEPT a 1080p signal, they simply upconvert everything to 1080p. So if they make these discs only in 1080p, nobody can watch them. Plus who plans on buying a new 1080p set for $4,000 over the next couple years when studies show most homes got a new main TV over the past 3.
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|its taken em this long to produce there first
movie disc eek
units are gonna be double/triple the price
of HD dvd
then theres the media price to
theres no dowt that blu ray offers more but is
it really worth the cost
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|Boycott Sony And all their products.
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|How about the Chronicle of Narnia for a first release. By the time Blu-Ray or even HD-DVD is in stores, this movie will already be on standard DVD.
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|Well, I do know of one Blu-Ray capable player that IS being release in the 2nd Qtr of 2006!!
The Playstation 3 :)
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|Theres been an X360 on display over in a video/video games shop here in ireland for 2 weeks now
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|What does the X360 have to do with anything? The X360 uses DL-DVD....THe X360 has nothing to do with Blu-Ray
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|Are you guys not capable of reading english??? It says the movie was released to test hardware. It has nothing to do with what will be released retail when the players are launched. They could have released anything for a hardware test so why does it matter if it's CA 2 or Matrix???
My concern is that they are still insisting on MPEG 2 and have not switched over to MPEG 4. If DVD's switched to MPEG 4 we would have far more space on our current gen of DVD's
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|Yes, most of us are capable of reading. I understood what the article said, but that still doesn't account for the fact that Charlie's Angels 2 is a horrible movie to use as a demo.
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|How do you know and why do you care, do you test Blu-Ray hardware? And if so, would you be happier if they used Spice World?
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|It seems like Sony's biggest concern is backwards compatibility, at least with software. Since all standard DVD's use MPEG 2, it would be cheaper for Blu-Ray player manufacturers to make Blu-Ray players.
Blu-Ray discs could also be using 96 KHz 24-bit PCM 5.1 channel surround sound with lossless compression but instead they have chosen to use Dolby Digital sound.
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|dont be so hard on sony....
¤blueray stores more than hd-dvd, and is a better candidate for the next gen discs.
¤sony supplys us with walkmans that have better battery life (40h network walkman/95h cd player) and durability than ipods, at a reasonable price.
they cant be all that bad.
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|Being completely serious here: I can't tell if you're joking or not.
But if you are, hahahahahahahaha....
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|I don't think I'd trust any product from Sony, hardware or software. It seems their only concern is the bottom line and I just can't spend my money on something that harms me.
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|Sony didn't create blu-ray...They're just the first company to really utilize it...
http://www.blu-ray.com take a look.
JVC, Toshiba, Panasonic, IBM, and more, they're all contributing to this.
Single Layer Blu-Ray 25GB Dual Layer Blu-Ray 50GB....if that isn't incredible than I don't know what is...
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|Why not just have movies come on a portable hard drive? (Extenguish your flames--I'm only joking)
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|lol yeah I know, but Blu-ray is almost like a Portable HDD if you think about it! 50GBs!!!!
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|"recorded in MPEG-2 high definition"
so...this isn't even real next-gen. It's the same idea as an SVCD. (DVD format stored on CD)
DVD's codec/menu on next-gen disc.
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|Life's a b****...
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|Wow I'm glad to see I'm not the only one against Blu-Ray in here.
I think Kill Bill would have been a cool one to release...they couldn't have picked a cheesier movie than CA.
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|C'mon They picked Charlie's Angels to appeal to the "18-35yr old white male" demographic with a lot of disposable income, nothing better to do and probably went and saw the movie for either the intellectual content or all that half naked booty on the screen. This is the target audience that Sony wants and belive me, if they thought that they could put a porn movie at that resolution on your screen, well all I can say is that while the rootkit fiasco may have made a few haters of Sony products, most of the demographic stated above will buy a Blu-Ray and not think about anything else. Just my thought on the subject
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|man.... hi resolution will be so cool..... gonna need to get a better screen, some nice herb, and munchies..... pizza, nugat, nutella, baguette, orange juice, and other foood stuffs!
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|Don't forget the Funions! ;-)
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|mmmmmmmm..... funions......
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|Woo, that resolution will play really nicely on a $3000 HD-TV I don't have!
OR that 21" LCD Monitor I didn't get!
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|It'll play really nicely on a $300 HDTV too!
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|To bad Kramy!
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|1920x1080 !!!?... wow...
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|Yep... gotta love HDTV.
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|HD-DVD alll theee waaaaaaaaay :)
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|Agreed.
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|me 2
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|Do we still trust SONY not to install RootKits?
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|In a word: no.
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|Agree
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|"Not I," says the bourg.
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|Not a chance in hell.
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|"Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" Was just on TV lastnight. It really doesn't matter, I won't ever buy anything from Sony again. I went to Gamestop two days ago and was going to get a game, when I saw that it had the name Sony on it I just dropped it on the floor and walked out.
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|Don't lie. You put it back on the shelf before you walked out.
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|LMAO, I don't recall that part. LOL
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|LOL
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|OK, so instead of complaining what they chose, what movie would you suggest for the first release on blue ray?
My pick would be either the Matrix or Underworld.
Keep in mind the studio isn't looking at popularity for a movie to be released, they are looking at figures for the bottom line. It has to be action, a blockbuster, and it has to appeal to many different levels... Agree, Charlie's Angels isn't my first pick either.. But they probably thought it would be a safe pick.
Lets also remember this is the same group that pick's the Oscar winner's.. and I am sure we all disagree with them on those picks as well..its political.
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|Sorry I can't tell you. I blocked access to Sony's IP address range in case there is another Sony rootkit on my network phoning home. That also means sony.com is blocked so I don't know what movies sony has made.
They should release something better than Charlies Angels. After all they want me to switch from DVD to their Blu-Ray format (never gonna happen after the rootkit fiasco) but they should at least try!
A blockbuster, yeah Matrix or Underworld are cool. Maybe a re-issue of something, with more extras or a directors cut.
Lets face it, anything is better than C.A.
P.S - IP's blocked are 64.14.0.0 - 64.14.255.255. ET phone home no more! :-)
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|Spaceballs!
Lacks special effects, but might actually be worth converting if they gave you it free when you buy a player. :P
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|"OK, so instead of complaining what they chose, what movie would you suggest for the first release on blue ray?"
Cheech and chongs movies, how high, half baked, friday, next friday, friday after next, futurama all 5 seasons.....if they own the rights to any of these, then i recomend they release these.
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|You're really a Spaceball... you know that, don't you?
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|I wonder how many rootkits and viri are on this DVD...
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|hahaa..
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|Yeah, it's probably not the greatest movie to choose. But I think it's choice had a lot to do with the many special effects in the movie. It's also a farely new movie.
Oh why am I trying to justify this...What a stupid stupid movie to pick?!
Whatever, though. I'm just excited to see Blu-ray moving along. And I would definitely bet against anymore rootkits from Sony.
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|I wouldn't want to publicise this...
Are they crazy???
"We have all these good movies to chose from, classics to multi-million dollar blockbusters, which one shall we release first?"
"How about Charlies Angels: Full Throttle?"
"Yeah! That'll get people using Blu-ray! That will really get our new format out there to the people!!!"
Is everyone at Sony completely dumb and stupid?
Don't they hire intelligent people now?
Sony = Bankruptcy (very soon)
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|HAHAHAHAHAHA..
Out of all the movies they choose Charlies Angels 2? LOL.
Anyways, I hope the hardware manufacturers have autorun disabled on their players, wouldnt want a rootkit poping up on their test hardware.
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|They are integrating the rootkits into the Blu-Ray hardware.
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|Sony has no plans to use rootkits in Blu-Ray hardware. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are using identical copy protection.
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|congratulations mr. and mrs. sony, it's a turd!
hopefully they release one decent movie to blu-ray on launch day.
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