Archived: Insiders Thread

[WickyWoo]

Anyway, Beyond Rangoon is a film (1995) by John Boorman (his son has a cameo role actually) starring Patricia Arquette set back in the time when Burma had their own Tinneman Square *incident*, only thing is….. few Americans ever heard about it. The motion picture itself received mixed reviews from the *critics*

Speaking of Charlie Boorman and stunning cinematography, he and Ewan MacGregor's "Long Way Down" should be starting soon.

http://www.longwayround.com

[JBlacklow]

So Fox has "delayed" their blockbuster day-and-date (Silver Surfer), apparently due to "Blu-ray manufacturing problems". Not only that, they say it applies to "all Blu-ray products".

Can anyone tell us right now, or badger Fox into saying something right now, whether they're just going to drop all their titles? This shit was old back in April, it's not any better now.

[LynxFX]

Wow, I originally called BS on all the production rate issues that the HD DVD boys were flinging around, but this doesn't give a lot of confidence. Is this really a problem? And why is Fox the one that seems to have the most problems with it?

[WickyWoo]

Well, Fox is going pretty nuts with the BDJ features, above and beyond everyone else.

Where is the news of the delay?

[L or S of Perfect?]

Originally Posted by JBlacklow

So Fox has "delayed" their blockbuster day-and-date (Silver Surfer), apparently due to "Blu-ray manufacturing problems". Not only that, they say it applies to "all Blu-ray products".

Can anyone tell us right now, or badger Fox into saying something right now, whether they're just going to drop all their titles? This shit was old back in April, it's not any better now.

Do you have a link? I did a quick search on google news, nothing was poppign up except for the simpsons movie on blu-ray. D'OH!


Edit:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...422#post239422

[mel2]

that's why my day after tomorrow was just filled at dvdpacific and will ship within the next 24 hours. I call bull****!

[WriteSimply]

Originally Posted by paidgeek

I checked with the authoring center and these are supposed to be the same MPEG2 encode.

I think Aygie meant Underworld (the first movie) and not Underworld: Evolution (the second movie). Underworld is coming out with AVC encode. Underworld:Evolution was among the first batch of BDs which also happened to be encoded with MPEG-2.

His question was how come Underworld UK is MPEG-2 and not AVC?


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[aygie]

Originally Posted by WriteSimply

I think Aygie meant Underworld (the first movie) and not Underworld: Evolution (the second movie). Underworld is coming out with AVC encode. Underworld:Evolution was among the first batch of BDs which also happened to be encoded with MPEG-2.

His question was how come Underworld UK is MPEG-2 and not AVC?


fuad

Yeah, thanks. Any ideas?

[WickyWoo]

Entertainment in Video owns it there, not Sony, so they did their own disc

Probably because it was cheaper to do if nothing else.

[paidgeek]

Originally Posted by Kris Deering

Hey Paidgeek

Watched Surf's Up last night and have to say it is one of the best video transfers I've seen in awhile. You had mentioned in an AVS thread that this title would have a full 24 bit PCM soundtrack but it is only 16 bit. Any reason it was truncated? Still sounded great, I was just curious.

Hi Kris,

As I recall, the bit depth question was about Dolby THD and that is recorded as 24 bit.

[paidgeek]

Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist

Dear Mr.Paidgeek:

I just wanted to note how utterly impressed I am with the UNDERWORLD disc. Please pass along to the appropriate party at SONY my most sincere thanks for a job (more than) well done. Your tech team, to which you belong, is something special. Thanks And please keep it up!!

Sincerely yours,

Dr. A

Thanks for your positive comments... We will do our best to keep you happy with SPE's product.

[scott1256ca]

Question to Paidgeek:

While I understand Sony might have issues with NTFS support on the PS3, I just tried to format a USB disk as ext2 (linux) hoping that would be supported, since linux can be installed on the PS3. Could you please ask those in a position for ext2 (or ext3) support on PS3?

Thanks

[coolmilo]

Originally Posted by JBlacklow

So Fox has "delayed" their blockbuster day-and-date (Silver Surfer), apparently due to "Blu-ray manufacturing problems". Not only that, they say it applies to "all Blu-ray products".

Can anyone tell us right now, or badger Fox into saying something right now, whether they're just going to drop all their titles? This shit was old back in April, it's not any better now.

JBlacklow, where is the source of this information? LINK PLEASE!!!

[phloyd]

I believe the source is Mortonbay in the movie forum.

We know for a fact that some Day After Tomorrow discs have shipped.

So it is certainly not a no show for Fox.

Please breathe...

[paidgeek]

Originally Posted by WriteSimply

I think Aygie meant Underworld (the first movie) and not Underworld: Evolution (the second movie). Underworld is coming out with AVC encode. Underworld:Evolution was among the first batch of BDs which also happened to be encoded with MPEG-2.

His question was how come Underworld UK is MPEG-2 and not AVC?


fuad

SPE does not have the rights to Underworld 2003 in the UK. I'm not sure who is distributing, but they are apparently sourcing the authoring and encode work elsewhere...

[The Guardian]

Question about that paidgeek.. any particular reason doing so would be cheaper than simply either obtaining rights to, or contributing $$$ towards the encode Sony did?

The only reason I can come up with is if the Sony encode is BD50 and they wanted theirs to fit on a BD25?

[paidgeek]

Originally Posted by jangofett

Question for Paidgeek/penton: I was wondering whether or not any manufacturer could make a BD player without getting sued or otherwise get the permission of the BDA first. What I am trying to get at is whether or not the XBOX360 *could* eventually include a BD-player as part of its features.

Any takers?

You would not be able to put a Blu-ray logo on the product and eventually you would have to answer for the IP you are using that does not originate from your company. Getting under a format license provides the major benefit of a consolidated royalty pool.

[paidgeek]

Originally Posted by The Guardian

Question about that paidgeek.. any particular reason doing so would be cheaper than simply either obtaining rights to, or contributing $$$ towards the encode Sony did?

The only reason I can come up with is if the Sony encode is BD50 and they wanted theirs to fit on a BD25?

It's not cheaper to do it over again, just more straightforward.

By the time another distributor finds the right person to ask about an arrangment to reuse an encode, they can do the whole thing over by themselves. And as you say, they can be sure the specifications are what they want...

[Hussla]

At the moment it seems as if the format war is growing stagnant. There's been no MAJOR earthshaking news in a while from either side, there has to be something in the works?

[WriteSimply]

Originally Posted by Hussla

At the moment it seems as if the format war is growing stagnant. There's been no MAJOR earthshaking news in a while from either side, there has to be something in the works?

Just because you don't hear nothin' doesn't mean things aren't brewing. Remember that 4Q starts in October.

paidgeek, barring any censorship issues, would it not be a good idea to e-mail foreign distributors of the current encode work SPHE is doing for a pending or future BD release just so that they don't have to spend time doing an encode themselves or waste time finding out the right person to contact SPHE about reusing an encode? That way if there are titles they own and want to replicate on BD, they can just contact BD and iron out the details.


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