Sony authors first Blu-ray disc
By Paul Sweeting -- Video Business,11/18/2005
NOV. 18 | Sony Pictures said late Friday that it had authored and encoded the first full-length movie in the Blu-ray Disc format, a milestone that will allow hardware makers to begin testing their Blu-ray players for software compatibility.
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle was encoded in MPEG-2 at Sony’s Digital Authoring Center in full 1920 x 1080 resolution.
The 25GB disc also features full-resolution graphics and animation and dynamic menus.
“We are confident this achievement will help everyone understand that Blu-ray is real and poised to enter the marketplace,” Sony Pictures Home Entertainment president Benjamin Feingold said. “Blu-ray will bring the highest quality high-def experience possible to the home.”
Added Don Eklund, senior VP advanced technologies, “We are extremely proud to deliver on the promise of Blu-ray. This is an important step for our industry in order to begin mass production of high-definition movies in the Blu-ray format.”
Not all of Blu-ray’s promised features are ready for testing, however.
The Full Throttle disc was created using HDMV, the format’s basic interactive layer, rather than the more sophisticated BD-Java system included in the Blu-ray spec.
The movie also is encoded in the older MPEG-2 format used for standard DVDs, rather than the more advanced VC-1 and MPEG-4 AVC codecs included in the spec.
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| Submitted by: | jeff mercer 11/21/2005 1:08:12 PM PT |
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That has to the the most retarded comments by Sony. I think the only reason they would make this public is to change the bad publicity they have had on their copy protection self installing on peoples pcs and now virus writers are taking advantage of it. My 2 cents is that Sony has just let people know that their BR-Disc is far from complete. What they did is make a 25gig DVD. All the article leads us to believe is that they used old MPEG 2 video and not the new VC-1, and it has no java based interaction whatsoever that is supposed to make the new BR-DVDs so great! Bah
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