Size change in Blu-Ray movies - Blu-ray Forum

Alex Pallas · 04-22-2006, 06:48 PM

when they upgrade the disc size to 200GB will the movie data size increase, or will they stick with the 50GB discs for movies? any speculation?

zombie · 04-22-2006, 06:53 PM

My guess is that they won't use more than 50GB on the movie itself, unless for maybe a long ass movie like Gone With The Wind which is like 4 hrs. I don't see larger capacity BDs being used often, if at all, other than for consumer recordable purposes. I mean, do we really need the Back To The Future trilogy, plus tons of extras on 1 disc?

AV_Integrated · 04-23-2006, 05:53 AM

The movie specification is written in stone AFAIK. 50GB dual lay discs. Anything more is not Blu-ray Video compliant.

Kind of like DVDs. If you put a brand new DVD into a 10 year old DVD player, that 10 year old player should still be able to play it back.

thunderhawk · 04-23-2006, 08:29 AM

Crap. It would've been nice to find the complete LOTR trilogy in HD on one disc...

Rob · 04-23-2006, 11:43 AM

I would assume the problem with releasing higher capacity discs in the future, would be that they wouldn't play on the earlier models.

thunderhawk · 04-23-2006, 01:05 PM

Mmm.. They said something about upgradable firmware... It's done now for PC drives, so they can read higher speed discs and there is a difference in dye so... Since it's here only a matter of adjusting the height of the focus of the laser because models now can already read double layered BDs... Ah well, I don't know for sure. *-*

04-22-2006, 06:48 PM	#1
Alex Pallas Active Member Member since:Sep 2005 Location:The Belly Of The Beast (USA)	Size change in Blu-Ray movies when they upgrade the disc size to 200GB will the movie data size increase, or will they stick with the 50GB discs for movies? any speculation?

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04-22-2006, 06:53 PM	#2
zombie Blu-ray Guru Top contributor Member since:May 2004 Trading Score:865	My guess is that they won't use more than 50GB on the movie itself, unless for maybe a long ass movie like Gone With The Wind which is like 4 hrs. I don't see larger capacity BDs being used often, if at all, other than for consumer recordable purposes. I mean, do we really need the Back To The Future trilogy, plus tons of extras on 1 disc?

04-23-2006, 05:53 AM	#3
AV_Integrated Senior Member Member since:Jan 2005	The movie specification is written in stone AFAIK. 50GB dual lay discs. Anything more is not Blu-ray Video compliant. Kind of like DVDs. If you put a brand new DVD into a 10 year old DVD player, that 10 year old player should still be able to play it back.

04-23-2006, 08:29 AM	#4
thunderhawk Moderator Member since:Jul 2004 Location:Belgium	Crap. It would've been nice to find the complete LOTR trilogy in HD on one disc...

04-23-2006, 11:43 AM	#5
Rob Active Member Member since:Jun 2004	I would assume the problem with releasing higher capacity discs in the future, would be that they wouldn't play on the earlier models.

04-23-2006, 01:05 PM	#6
thunderhawk Moderator Member since:Jul 2004 Location:Belgium	Mmm.. They said something about upgradable firmware... It's done now for PC drives, so they can read higher speed discs and there is a difference in dye so... Since it's here only a matter of adjusting the height of the focus of the laser because models now can already read double layered BDs... Ah well, I don't know for sure. -

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