Blu-ray "coming soon" releases! Lord of the Rings, Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind...

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 6:53pm

Confirmation of the following:

The Wizard of Oz
The Lord of the Rings
The Matrix
JFK
King Kong
Shawshank Redemption
Gone With the Wind
Rush Hour
The Notebook
Amadeus
Woodstock
Being There
LINK

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 7:22pm

Good news! I'm especially looking forward to LOTR in Blu Ray! I just hope it's the extended editions.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 7:28pm

Good point.

My hope is that since they can do seamless branching on BD, the disc would include both versions... just like the Close Encounters BD has all three versions (branching to the various scenes that were included or cut).

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 7:37pm

That's fantastic. Can a BRD hold a 4 hour film? LOTR extended and I believe KK were two disc per film.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 7:47pm

They could fit it on a dual layer (50 GB) disc... but it depends on if anyone would think that was compromising the compression to do that. I think they'd still be fine, since many 2 hour movies now are on one single-layer BD.

But you know the mentality of 2 discs = more money they can charge you.

So they'd probably split it... which would kill the "both versions" idea.

If I were them I'd please the fans and do it all on one disc, and then all the bonus (non-over-feature) content on a second disc.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 8:10pm

You know which movie I'M looking forward to!

[cubanpab]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 9:24pm

dammit!!! must... buy... BD... player!

are they still like $500?

I thought BDs were supposed to hold like 25gb-50gb? Doesnt that mean long films like LOTR should be able to fit on 1 disc? plus special features... i would think more than 1 movie could fit on the disc...

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 9:48pm

Aww. I thought there was going to be art work included.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 9:54pm

Ok, I'm not too proud to own up to my ignorance. Can someone walk me through the whole Blu-Ray thing?

In addition to being ignorant, I guess I'm too lazy to read up and figure it out for myself.

Someone nice, please?

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 10:04pm

Besty can explain it all to you, Reg. And he's nicer than nice!

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 10:08pm

Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a hi-definition format disc. It's a DVD on steroids, Reg. But you need an HD TV first.

The HD format uses up a lot of disc space, cubanpab, so while 25-50 GB sounds like a lot, when it's HD content, that space is used up very quickly. Similar to DVDs with single and dual layers.

However, if you were to put regular, standard-def content on a Blu-ray Disc, you could (for example) put the entire series (all seasons) of "Friends" on a single dual-layered BD.

Standard def (NTSC-DV) video is 720x480 pixels.

High definition (at full rez) is 1920x1080 pixels. That's a huge difference.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 10:10pm

SEE! I told you!

(Jerby is nicer than nice too, BTW. I'm so sleepy I didn't even notice he had posted!)

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 10:19pm

I know they're both nice (and intelligent), Miss P.

You, by the way, are like fairy-godmother nice.

So, unless I want to toss out my not top-of-the-line-but-not-cheap LCD TV, I just want to forget it, right?

But is there a threat of it's taking over, and I'm suddenly Beta Max with my plain ol' DVDs?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 10:22pm

Except if and when you do decide to go blu-ray, you can still play your regular dvds on it, and they'll still look better.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 10:31pm

Aw, Reg. That is so sweet! (I also noticed that Phyllis and CP are here. Add YOU to that and this thread has almost all of my favorite guys! Sorry, CATS, no offense. I just don't know you...I'm sure you're nice too.)

Anyway, enough about me...do you think I'LL like blu-ray?

Okay, that was a cheap vaudeville joke, but seriously, I had no idea that regular DVDs will work AND look better on blu-ray. (Reg, you and I are dinosaurs!)

So, I watched that documentary about Disneyland on blu-ray, Besty?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 10:36pm

Aww, bachatcha, Miss P.

That's great news, Besty. I was afraid it was either/or.

Not up to replacing my TV yet (though I do yearn for a bigger one*).

Thanks for the info.



*No cracks, please

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 10:42pm

Oh, Reg, we all yearn for bigger ones. It's just human nature. If only we could be happy with the one we look at every night before falling asleep.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 10:47pm

Miss P., you are a wise, wise woman.

Thanks for reminding me!

[cubanpab]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 11:06pm

i'm hoping this holiday that the BD players will drop down to reasonable prices... i'm still trying to convince my wife that we "need" a PS3 more than we "need" groceries... she's not buying it. not sure why.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 11:14pm

Reg, I think the fear is more that BD is going to become the 21st Century Betamax. It is having trouble finding acceptance. People are more than happy with standard DVD, even those people who have HDTVs. The fact is, technology changes, way too fast. I mean, why can't we just download HD films? How far away is that, really? And, the players and discs are way too expensive. Especially for most people, who just don't care about it. To be perfectly honest, I don't care about it, and it shocks people who know me. I went laserdisc in 1979, because I was unhappy with the quality of videotape! But, to be honest, the difference between standard television broadcast and HDTV broadcast is like the difference between black and white and color, to me; but the difference between standard DVD on a HDTV monitor and Blu-ray on that same monitor isn't all that impressive to me. I know it's better, but I just don't care. It's not better enough for me, and I'm one of those people who they, supposedly, don't have to convince. All of this is to say, I wouldn't worry about being left in the dust with my standard DVDs if I were you.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 11:35pm

I love my PS3. And, now, they have a new 80G that plays PS2 and PS1 games (I could weep--I should have waited). But anyway, I love BluRay movies and that reg DVDs get upgraded to almost BD quality--at least they fill the screen like a BD.

And HDTV is the bomb! Make sure your TV is 1080p. P is the important part.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 11:40pm

Good lord, I'm totally lost. I hope Caldwell B. Cladwell understands all this sh!t! I don't know what any of it means. All I know is I WANT ONE!

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 11:45pm

Did anyone else notice they are due in 2008...with 3 full months left, that's not a lot of time...

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 11:46pm

Just remember that it's a privilege to p! :)

Updated On: 10/3/08 at 11:46 PM

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 10/3/08 at 11:48pm

Hey, Jerby, no one knows that better than Miss Pennywise!