WB needs to stop putting their 3 1/2 hour + films on one BD-50

[McCrutchy]

I just saw our Gettysburg review and I'm shocked that WB tried to shove a 271-minute film on one BD-50. First we had Branagh's Hamlet (242 minutes) now Gettysburg, and my biggest fear is that the newly-restored Ben-Hur (212 minutes) will suffer a similar fate, with one disc for the film, and one solely for the extras. Honestly, with feature films, once we get past the 180-minute (three hour) mark, I start to get nervous regarding compression that could have been avoided by splicing the film over two discs, and I certainly think that any film over 200/210 minutes should be split in two. Especially one that has just had a 6K scan from the 65mm elements.

I really don't mind having to change discs, Warner. Seriously, I don't.