Sony Completes First Full-Length Blu-ray Disc

john writes "Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced that authoring has been completed on the first Blu-ray Disc (BD) to contain a full-length, high-definition feature film. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle was compressed and authored in MPEG 2 full high-definition (1920 x 1080) and is now being shipped to BD hardware companies for player testing."

I could have saved 48 hours of my life!

[dada21]

I wonder how long it took for Sony to transcode the AVI torrent they downloaded off of The Pirate Bay into the format needed for a BD-ROM.

Had I known they were releasing this awesome movie in Hi-Def format, I'd probably have just skipped the download and just let them do the work.

Complete with rootkit!

[Anonymous Coward]

No annoying dialogs just seamless integration

Where's the full res torrent?

[tonywong]

Just kidding...

In other news...

[Anonymous Coward]

...the companies the discs were shipped to asked sony to confirm in writing that the disks infact did not contain any rootkit that would damage their systems.

Clever choice of material

[Logic Bomb]

At first I was horrified that such an absurdly bad movie was chosen for this "honor." But then I thought about the current market for this stuff: geeky guys. I suppose it makes sense, but they probably could do better with porn.

Well, Blu-Ray is dead.

[OS24Ever]

With all the films they had to choose from the one they pick to show Charlie's Angels 2? Nice way to kill the format.

So now we see the real reason for high def

[antifoidulus]

of all the films they could have chosen, they chose the one with the most boobs.....Good choice!

I understand...

[Eric Damron]

...that they would have been able to get this out sooner but had to overcome a lack of space caused by the oversized rootkit included.

and who

[Anonymous Coward]

...will be brave/stupid enough to put the first Sony blue-ray DVD in his (not yet existing) blue-ray-DVD-drive?

Re:Great. A movie I never wanted to see anyway.

[PsychicX]

The rest of the news story, which slashdot didn't report: However, upon attempting to show the disc in public, Sony found that entire meeting rooms were vacated almost instantly. It seems no one wants anything to do with Blu-Ray, or even wants to be in the same room to see the disc play. Sony execs are still trying to figure out why.

so bad

[ZhuLien]

The reason they chose this movie is obvious. It's so bad, no-one would want to copy it.

hi-def porn = just say no!

[Tumbleweed]

That's the _last_ thing anyone wants in hi-def. Trust me - you _really_ don't want to see those people accurately.

Re:Boycott Sony

[Anonymous Coward]

I steal all my records anyway, but starting this week I'm boycotting Sony's titles on p2p!

Re:Well, Blu-Ray is dead.

[krbvroc1]

I'm not sure how big the Sony catalog is. But a few that they had that would have been better was 'A Knights Tale', 'Spider-Man', 'Spider-Man 2'. Hell, 'Kermits' Swamp Years' would have been better than Charlies Angels 2. That movie was soooo bad.

Kinda makes sense.

[Mulletproof]

"Second, and this is key, they won't have to worry about anybody trying to pirate the first Blu Ray disc because nobody will want it :)"

Yes, because just everybody has the abilitiy to read bluray and burn it, chortle-chortle.

Re:hi-def porn = just say no!

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, we could use it to confirm that they used body doubles when they broke out of the plaster in the warehouse. I'll bet it's a lot clearer in HD.

Re:I understand...

[neoform]

Hey, it's not the rootkit's fault it's fat! Leave it alone!