Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[BriS2K]

When I saw this at a drive-in, I thought it was a complete snore-fest...though I was probably too young to appreciate/understand the film. I was hugely into Starwars however.

So no, since I was never a fan of CE3K and haven't even re-watched it on DVD, I will definitely skip this on BD.

[Galley]

Back in '77 everyone was "Star Wars this, Star Wars that". For me it was all about CE3K.

[caliminius]

Originally Posted by BriS2K

When I saw this at a drive-in, I thought it was a complete snore-fest...though I was probably too young to appreciate/understand the film. I was hugely into Starwars however.

So no, since I was never a fan of CE3K and haven't even re-watched it on DVD, I will definitely skip this on BD.

I was somewhere between 5 and 17 months old when this film came out, but when I did see it (probably around age 9 or 10) I fell in love with it. Maybe you should give it another chance.

[bluflu]

Just pre-ordered CE3K from Amazon.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=529

[digibob]

This is my favorite all time movie. I was in collage film class when it came out and I remember the Instructor saying how great the aliens looked. A fellow student and I drove to Hollywood and saw it at the Paramount Theater. It was awesome. I also saw it during the 25th Anniversary of the Cinerama dome in Hollywood. I have the VHS, Laserdisc, DVD and will most diffidently buy the BD. I still think Spielberg should make the sequel of the return of Roy Neary.

[ReduxInflux]

so this disc will feature seamless branching? this is a new concept to me...what exactly does this mean?

beyond this, these numbers are looking solid. i really hope the actual sales figures show mr. spielberg just how serious we are about blu. this could be the first of many! if we treat him right

[Knight-Errant]

Originally Posted by ReduxInflux

so this disc will feature seamless branching? this is a new concept to me...what exactly does this mean?

beyond this, these numbers are looking solid. i really hope the actual sales figures show mr. spielberg just how serious we are about blu. this could be the first of many! if we treat him right

Seamless branching is the ability to play multiple versions of a film by branching across from one sequence to another.

If it's seamless then there isn't a jump when this happens.

[ReduxInflux]

Originally Posted by Knight-Errant

Seamless branching is the ability to play multiple versions of a film by branching across from one sequence to another.

If it's seamless then there isn't a jump when this happens.

interesting. curious as to how cool this actually is. hmm...

[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by ReduxInflux

so this disc will feature seamless branching? this is a new concept to me...what exactly does this mean?

It's been around on DVD from the beginning.

Start with the concept of branching. A movie is usually a continuous stream (although it can appear physically as several files).

Start --> End

Now, say you have a Director's Cut that adds two scenes, but still want to offer the original. You can either provide two seperate encodings, or use branching to provide the alternative. Branching describes the switch points and physical locations of the data to the player.

Start Main -> Scene 1 insert point -> Branch to Scene 1 -> Scene 1 -> Branch to Main after Scene 1 insert point -> Scene 2 insert point -> Branch to Scene 2 -> Scene 2 -> Branch to Main after Scene 2 insert point -> End

Seamless branching is doing the above without a pause in the playback. Like a seamless layer change.

The player builds up a decoding buffer and then changes what it is reading on the drive and must start reading data again before the buffer runs out.

Gary

[ReduxInflux]

fundamentally, i understand. thanks

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

The player builds up a decoding buffer and then changes what it is reading on the drive and must start reading data again before the buffer runs out.

Gary

but dude...how crazy is technology. it blows my mind how people ever engineered this. and i'm not talking about this as in isolated tech case. its probably elementary. but how far we've come along into technology that this is simple. computers are nuts. so are tvs and radios and cell phones and blu-ray discs and blu-ray disc players. the list keeps going on and on. technology is awesome and those who understand it and develop it have my utmost respect. crazy. okay. i'm done rambling.