Smallville Season 7 09/09/2008

[MasterXeus]

I found Smallville Season 7 up for preorder over at Warner Bros. for $ 59.95
The Site is saying Available: 09/09/2008

http://whv.warnerbros.com/WHVPORTAL/...atType=Blu-ray

I don't know of any official announcement from WB, but I figure since it's WB's website they might know what's going on.

Right now they have 30% off going on so you can preorder it for $41.96

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=50286

Code at checkout: ANWBTS

[u_nick]

Yeah, Amazon has had it on preorder for a week or two now as well. Hopefully we get some sort of press release soon.

Edit: Damn, coupon code not working for me

[XanderAE]

God I hope the reports of it being a 3-Disc set are false.

I don't like the sounds of 7 episodes a disc. Encoding nightmare!

That's a point... Where's Supernatural season 3 on Blu-ray Warner???

[ganthc]

Yeah, I already preordered mine.

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/sh...This_Fall/1758

Apparently, it won't have a lossless track for it, which is par for all the Smallville seasons in HD so far, and on par with Warner in general.

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by XanderAE

God I hope the reports of it being a 3-Disc set are false.

I don't like the sounds of 7 episodes a disc. Encoding nightmare!

That has me worried as well (though your math is incorrect, as there are only 20 episodes)... especially considering the extras and the fact that not every disc is supposed to be a BD-50 (a mix of BD-25 and BD-50).

I guess we can rule out a BD-optomized encode or "lossless" audio! ;(

Originally Posted by XanderAE

Where's Supernatural season 3 on Blu-ray Warner???

Sadly, it looks like we'll be waiting ANOTHER year for "Supernatural" as the DVD has been announced...

~Alan

[XanderAE]

Originally Posted by Alan Gordon

That has me worried as well (though your math is incorrect, as there are only 20 episodes)... especially considering the extras and the fact that not every disc is supposed to be a BD-50 (a mix of BD-25 and BD-50).

I guess we can rule out a BD-optomized encode or "lossless" audio! ;(



Sadly, it looks like we'll be waiting ANOTHER year for "Supernatural" as the DVD has been announced...

~Alan

Yep, I'm aware of the shortened season this year, it's just 3 discs will mean a config of 7,7,6 (6 episodes a disc was frequent in season 6) which is faaaaaaaar too much!

I've prefer 4 discs, with a config of 5,5,5,5. Can get decent encoding then (look at Lost!)

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by XanderAE

Yep, I'm aware of the shortened season this year, it's just 3 discs will mean a config of 7,7,6 (6 episodes a disc was frequent in season 6) which is faaaaaaaar too much!

Actually, you're forgetting one thing. So far, it appears that not every disc will be a BD-50 (I'm betting the first two are, and the third one will be the BD-25), so I'm thinking more like 8,8,4.

~Alan

[XanderAE]

Oh lord, that would be teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrible! 50gb spread between 340 minutes

3 discs has got to be a mistake! I don't think it's all finalised yet, so I'm not gonna hold my breath.

We just gotta wait til July for the press-release... That is if they release it in July like they usually do.

[JJ79]

Originally Posted by XanderAE

so I'm not gonna hold my breath.

Those can't be complete yet, not with that lousy set of extras.

[Alan Gordon]

BTW, since it wasn't posted, I thought I'd post this link to the story:

TVShowsOnDVD.com

~Alan

[nrose101]

Originally Posted by XanderAE

God I hope the reports of it being a 3-Disc set are false.

I don't like the sounds of 7 episodes a disc. Encoding nightmare!

That's a point... Where's Supernatural season 3 on Blu-ray Warner???

I agree. Hopefully we can get Season 3 (and even Season 1 and 2) by end of year.

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by flickdirect

I agree. Hopefully we can get Season 3 (and even Season 1 and 2) by end of year.

Don't get your hopes up!

Hopefully Season Four will be available next year though!!

~Alan

[XanderAE]

How compromised will the video quality be with 8 x 42mins on a 50gb disc, 4 x 42mins on 25gb?

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by XanderAE

How compromised will the video quality be with 8 x 42mins on a 50gb disc, 4 x 42mins on 25gb?

I asked a similar question on 2themax's thread just a minute ago...

~Alan

[WickyWoo]

Those specs are not complete

[ChadCronin]

So what is the normal time limit with a good bit rat supposed to be per 25GB disc?

[ryoohki]

Well Buena did 5 Ep per disc with Lost.. look good but it have some Macroblock here and there...

Now Warner is gonna use crappy DD 5.1 AGAIN.. i guess you could fit more..

[cajmoyper]

It's become obvious to me that Warner is only half in this thing. Fox put DTS HD MA on Prison Break, BV put PCM! on Lost. I'm thinking that if it's just DD, I'll buy the DVD instead.

[WickyWoo]

As I said, wait for an actual press release, it's probably coming pretty soon.

Also it should be kept in mind that if this season IS DD 5.1, that WB may very well have been "spreading the wealth", compressing A/V every time a set number of episodes were completed and therefore any change in spec would require the entire redo of the front half of the season

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

Also it should be kept in mind that if this season IS DD 5.1, that WB may very well have been "spreading the wealth", compressing A/V every time a set number of episodes were completed and therefore any change in spec would require the entire redo of the front half of the season

It's also possible they started working on the set during the strike (as they might have felt there wouldn't be any more episodes that season... and for a little bit during the strike, they weren't Blu-ray exclusive).

That being said, I'm disappointed by the lack of "lossless" audio, but not too much as at least the Blu-ray version has Dolby Digital 5.1 (US DVD sets didn't have 5.1 until the sixth season on DVD).

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

As I said, wait for an actual press release, it's probably coming pretty soon.

It's very possible this is a mistake... and I'm hoping it is... but TVShowsOnDVD.com has been a VERY reliable site, and they say this information came STRAIGHT from WB. Of course, that doesn't mean WB has it straight ("The Perfect Storm" has "lossy" listed on the back cover), and "WEIRD" issues I'm HOPING is a mistake ("Justice League" in 4x3, "Birds Of Prey" in letterbox (non-anamorphic) widescreen, no "lossless" on "Batman: Gotham Knight" and other titles that deserve it, and what I hope is a mistake, "Supernatural: Season Three" in LETTERBOX (non-anamorphic) widescreen). Either way, I'd consider it a cause for concern nonetheless... but I'm going to keep hoping it's a mistake (possibly even AFTER the press release) until it's being reviews by this site (and others).

~Alan