Sony Completes First Full-Length Blu-ray Disc 258
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."
Boycott Sony (Score:3, Insightful)
If Sony misses out on the Christmas rush perhaps they, and the rest of the E! industry, will figure out that their customers don't like to be harrassed.
Columbia Records, Epic Records, Legacy Recordings, Sony Classical, Sony Nashville, Sony Wonder, Sony Ericsson, Sony Music, Sony Pictures, Sony Electronics & PlayStation.
It makes sense (Score:5, Insightful)
Is this better than 1080i? (Score:4, Insightful)
It will be nice to have discs of HD content eventually, but I don't see what is so impressive that makes this worthy of coverage.
Angels indeed (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Is this better than 1080i? (Score:3, Insightful)
TV broadcasts that are actually 720p or 1080i really are HDTV. DVDs are higher resolution than normal broadcast television but they're not HD. This is the first movie published on disc (not ripped) that is actually in HD as source material.
Re:Who cares? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:and who (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Boycott Sony (Score:4, Insightful)
If enough consumers "vote with their dollars", not only SONY will get the message, but so will the other members of the **AA. Who knows, maybe even "our*" (*not really ours) legislators will get the message. There used to be something called "fair use" under copyright law that has been turned upside-down by DMCA. The currently inevitable emergence of personal computers and consumer electronics with embedded DRM, as well as the upcoming MS Windows (DRM Edition AKA Vista), "fair use" will be a fond distant memory.
Re:Why would you believe sony? (Score:5, Insightful)
No, this was an important step! (Score:2, Insightful)
This was a necessary test of the format:
there was concern whether something that awful would stick to a Blu-Ray DVD.
CAN you say LOCK IN (Score:2, Insightful)