help for bd newbie

[vxrmarc]

I am currently waiting for new alienware laptop and am also looking at building a new pc with blu ray drive and burner...

Now i know absolutly zero about bd discs and what they can and cannot do???

I have just downloaded some snowboarding bit torrents about 4 gb of 1080 quality which i want to burn to disc and watch on a bd drive either on my laptop or pc.....

So...

Do i have to burn this to a bd disc or can i burn it to a dvd-r disc as the file size is smaller than a full dvd-r disc?? Will the blu ray player still play the disc with full quality in otherwords are bd discs just capable of holding larger quantity of data or is there more to it than that??

[pedigree]

Originally Posted by vxrmarc

I am currently waiting for new alienware laptop and am also looking at building a new pc with blu ray drive and burner...

Now i know absolutly zero about bd discs and what they can and cannot do???

I have just downloaded some snowboarding bit torrents about 4 gb of 1080 quality which i want to burn to disc and watch on a bd drive either on my laptop or pc.....

So...

Do i have to burn this to a bd disc or can i burn it to a dvd-r disc as the file size is smaller than a full dvd-r disc?? Will the blu ray player still play the disc with full quality in otherwords are bd discs just capable of holding larger quantity of data or is there more to it than that??

im no expert but although the size of the disc plays a huge part in the level of quality you get but it also has to do with the difference in the way the information is etched or burned onto the disc... something about blu ray having a shorter wavelenght or something and this way it looses less quality

they explain better here
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/blu-ray.htm

[jorg]

u can make a bd-9 which is just a dvd disc spun faster then normal and formated like a bd
bd only suports avc mpeg 2 and vc-1 make sure its one of those codecs