Do 50g films have better PQ then 25g films?

[Headphone Czar]

To me, 50gig is overkill..unless it trully gets you a better PQ..

[stockstar1138]

Originally Posted by Headphone Czar

To me, 50gig is overkill..unless it trully gets you a better PQ..

Nearly every movie that is rated highly on PQ is a BD50.

[JJ]

Keep in mind movie length, extras, definition of the extras, audio included, etc.

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by Headphone Czar

To me, 50gig is overkill..unless it trully gets you a better PQ..

Amir? J/K!

Disney believes it does...

~Alan

[JJ]

Originally Posted by Alan Gordon

Amir? J/K!

Disney believes it does...

~Alan

ROFLMAO! Aww, Alan, that was just mean.

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by JJxiv1215

ROFLMAO! Aww, Alan, that was just mean.

Ironically, I did not even pay attention to the OP's screen name... which makes my joke even funnier (Amir is REAL big on head phones... and has brought that up MANY times).

As to the OP's question, as I said, Disney has stated they felt that BD-50 allowed them to offer better picture, and Disney certainly gets rave reviews for their PQ on titles!

~Alan

[aygie]

More room = less compression = better picture.

(yes there are more details but in a nutshell)

[M]

I just realized today that most Special Features are in Standard Definition, which isn't so good, but doesn't bother me too much but I'm sure they could have easily been in High Definition..

[CptGreedle]

A movie can fit on a 25GB disc no problem and still look great too, but it would have to be short. For a long movie (1 1/2 hours is long enough), a full 50GB disc would have the room for the information to spread out. That will avoid compression which is used on all video, and can provide uncompressed and lossless sound too, which is on MOST BD titles.
Without the extra space, you will probably have to compress sound and image, especially for longer titles.
It is in NO WAY overkill. BD50 discs tend to get better reviews, and games are already using more than 25GB. Imagine putting a long movie like Lord of the Rings on a 25GB disc and you will see tons of compression and lossy audio. But with 50 GB you can fit lossless audio and better video.

[Headphone Czar]

I'm not amir.. I go by KBI on the AVS forum.

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by Headphone Czar

I'm not amir.. I go by KBI on the AVS forum.

I didn't think you were... I was just joking around!

~Alan

[owa]

Originally Posted by JJxiv1215

ROFLMAO! Aww, Alan, that was just mean.

True but it was funny.

[theprophecy247]

lol love the side convo goin on in here

[blu2]

Originally Posted by Headphone Czar

To me, 50gig is overkill..unless it trully gets you a better PQ..

The important things is that a 50GB disc leaves room for extras and lossless audio on top of a high quality encode.

There is a sticky which shows movie size if you want to correlate movie size to some subjective quality rank:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=3338

[lgans316]

Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Black Snake Moan, MI-3, Alvin on BD-25 etc had better PQ than I am Legend, V for Vendetta, Juno, 27 Dresses etc which are on BD-50.

[odin24]

Originally Posted by CptGreedle

Imagine putting a long movie like Lord of the Rings on a 25GB disc and you will see tons of compression and lossy audio. But with 50 GB you can fit lossless audio and better video.

What are the chances that each movie in the trilogy gets a 4 layered BD (100GB)? I thought I saw something when Blu was first launched that there could eventually be 4 layered discs. Would launch to date standalones play such discs or would firmware updates be required?

[WickyWoo]

What are the chances that each movie in the trilogy gets a 4 layered BD (100GB)? I thought I saw something when Blu was first launched that there could eventually be 4 layered discs. Would launch to date standalones play such discs or would firmware updates be required?

Zero. It is questionable whether they will ever actually be manufactured as writeables for consumers even.

You will not see any commercial movie on a BD-100, except for, and that's assuming someone actually bothers to make a line for them, some oddball disc designed to get you to buy it because it's BD-100

I think everyone learned from DVD-18 the lesson of "the more layers, the exponentially more defects"

[CheapChildren]

Originally Posted by lgans316

Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Black Snake Moan, MI-3, Alvin on BD-25 etc had better PQ than I am Legend, V for Vendetta, Juno, 27 Dresses etc which are on BD-50.

What exactly was wrong with Juno? That was a perfect transfer.

[MOONPHASE]

not every 50gb disc looks great found that out the hard way

[#Darren]

Originally Posted by M

I just realized today that most Special Features are in Standard Definition, which isn't so good, but doesn't bother me too much but I'm sure they could have easily been in High Definition..

Not if they weren't filmed in hi def, which most aren't.