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sutherland4l · 01-10-2008, 01:33 AM

I've seen that the HD-DVD has released several operas on the format. Any news on whether or not Blu-ray will follow suit?
There is an incredibly large audience for classical music, and with the Metropolitan Opera broadcasting in HD now, many people, many aged, at the theatre asked whether or not a regular DVD would have the same visual quality and amazing sound.
Do you think that they will release any classical titles soon?

cartman781 · 01-10-2008, 01:35 AM

I would get Andea Bocelli or Sarah Brightman with lossless audio

garak · 01-10-2008, 05:13 AM

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Originally Posted by sutherland4l

I've seen that the HD-DVD has released several operas on the format. Any news on whether or not Blu-ray will follow suit?
There is an incredibly large audience for classical music, and with the Metropolitan Opera broadcasting in HD now, many people, many aged, at the theatre asked whether or not a regular DVD would have the same visual quality and amazing sound.
Do you think that they will release any classical titles soon?

I emailed opus arte a few months ago asking them to release on BD. They said they hoped to release on BD early this year.

Hopefully, with the Warner announcement, they'll speed up their timetable.

garak · 01-10-2008, 05:14 AM

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Originally Posted by cartman781

I would get Andea Bocelli or Sarah Brightman with lossless audio

No offense, but that's not classical music.

Marcusarilius · 01-10-2008, 05:20 AM

Phantom of the opera? I'll take Sarah Brightman now please.

Galley · 01-10-2008, 04:06 PM

I wonder how many discs The Ring Cycle would be on? The DVD version is seven discs.

ilovenola2 · 01-10-2008, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by cartman781
I would get Andea Bocelli or Sarah Brightman with lossless audio

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Originally Posted by garak

No offense, but that's not classical music.

How very, very correct you are!

Liltawen · 01-10-2008, 07:40 PM

In Europe Opera and Dance has been filmed in HD for several decades now.
I have many on LD so it shouldn't be too hard.
Maybe the Ring would be dual sided?!

jfrankowski · 01-10-2008, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by cartman781

I would get Andea Bocelli or Sarah Brightman with lossless audio

They are the best..................

garak · 01-11-2008, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Galley

I wonder how many discs The Ring Cycle would be on? The DVD version is seven discs.

Assuming a lossless audio track throughout, I'm pretty sure Das Rheingold could fit on 1 disc. The others I'm not so sure. If you wanted a high bitrate encode for those, each might require 2 discs, see as they are 4+ hours each.

Anybody have an estimate of how much time you can get on a BD50 disc with a high bitrate AVC encode with a lossless audio track?

01-10-2008, 01:33 AM	#1
sutherland4l New Member Member since:Dec 2007	Classical Blu-ray I've seen that the HD-DVD has released several operas on the format. Any news on whether or not Blu-ray will follow suit? There is an incredibly large audience for classical music, and with the Metropolitan Opera broadcasting in HD now, many people, many aged, at the theatre asked whether or not a regular DVD would have the same visual quality and amazing sound. Do you think that they will release any classical titles soon?

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