Everything you ever wanted to know about Blu-ray.... but were too afraid to ask :o

[Slec]

what player do you have?

1) direct from web
2) download file and update from a thumb drive
3) download file update from a burned disk


4) ??? profit?

[brettallica]

Why don't all Blu-ray discs take the same time to load? More specifically: why can't manufacturing companies (studios?) make these times more consistent? Is there a certain specification (or list thereof) that manufacturing companies/studios must meet?

[PH3AR]

Why was it named "blu-ray" is something in the disc blue or was it the creator of blu-rays favorite color?

[brettallica]

Originally Posted by PH3AR

Why was it named "blu-ray" is something in the disc blue or was it the creator of blu-rays favorite color?

That's an easy one: it's because its data is reaad and written by a blue laser.

The name Blu-ray Disc derives from the blue-violet laser used to read the disc. While a standard DVD uses a 650 nanometre red laser, Blu-ray uses a shorter wavelength, a 405 nm blue-violet laser, and allows for almost six times more data storage than on a DVD.

Source: Wikipedia

[garlad]

Originally Posted by Kor-ray

how do you update a Blu ray player? ive tryed but never could figure it out.

As Slec asked, what player do you have and someone will answer you here! Should be easy!

Originally Posted by Slec

what player do you have?

1) direct from web
2) download file and update from a thumb drive
3) download file update from a burned disk


4) ??? profit?

What do you mean by point 4??

[beefytwinkie]

Originally Posted by garlad

As Slec asked, what player do you have and someone will answer you here! Should be easy!



What do you mean by point 4??

It's a joke from a South Park episode called Gnomes (season 2). A bunch of gnomes would steal underpants and when confronted with their diabolical scheme they had a chart which read as follows:

Phase 1: Collect underpants
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Profit

[Kor-ray]

Originally Posted by beefytwinkie

It's a joke from a South Park episode called Gnomes (season 2). A bunch of gnomes would steal underpants and when confronted with their diabolical scheme they had a chart which read as follows:

Phase 1: Collect underpants
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Profit

It's Not a JOKE unless others get it... Take your crappy humor and get out of hear join a HD-DVD forum or something....


P.S. I was JKing

Korray

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by PH3AR

Why was it named "blu-ray" is something in the disc blue or was it the creator of blu-rays favorite color?

because the laser is blue-violet like brettallica said, and violt-ray sounds stupid
with or without the E

[mikejet]

Originally Posted by brettallica

Why don't all Blu-ray discs take the same time to load? More specifically: why can't manufacturing companies (studios?) make these times more consistent? Is there a certain specification (or list thereof) that manufacturing companies/studios must meet?

I've never noticed certain BD's taking longer than other with the exception of when they load BD-Live content when you start then up, i.e. Iron Man.

[Slec]

Originally Posted by mikejet

I've never noticed certain BD's taking longer than other with the exception of when they load BD-Live content when you start then up, i.e. Iron Man.

the PS3 is one of the fastest loading players. I think only in the last few months have the stand-alones regularly loaded faster than the PS3.

[garlad]

Originally Posted by John72953

Trust me...JJ was joking!

John

+1.. but good of you to answer mj!

What about my question?

Originally Posted by garlad

Also, in the film The Dark Knight, some scenes were shot in IMAX.. eh.. what is that?? What scenes? And what makes them stand out from the rest?? The whole film looked great to me!

[Beefbowl]

Originally Posted by garlad

+1.. but good of you to answer mj!

What about my question?

The very first scene where joker robs the bank was shot in Imax along with most of the action scenes. The biggest difference you'll see is that the film takes up the whole screen (no black bars on top or bottom). For more specifics, you're going to ask someone else.

[garlad]

Originally Posted by Beefbowl

The very first scene where joker robs the bank was shot in Imax along with most of the action scenes. The biggest difference you'll see is that the film takes up the whole screen (no black bars on top or bottom). For more specifics, you're going to ask someone else.

no way! didnt notice the black bars disappearing for those shots.. thanks! Must have another look at the film now

[Johnny Vinyl]

Originally Posted by garlad

no way! didnt notice the black bars disappearing for those shots.. thanks! Must have another look at the film now

I never noticed it either and didn't again the second time I watched it, but then I forgot what to look out for. Will try to remember for next time!

John

[fatediesel]

Originally Posted by garlad

no way! didnt notice the black bars disappearing for those shots.. thanks! Must have another look at the film now

Around once a month someone starts a thread about how Dark Knight is screwed up and why isn't the whole movie full screen. It is easy to miss because the movie starts full screen (IMAX) and most of the time when it goes IMAX it's night scenes so it's easy to miss the aspect ratio changing.

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by brettallica

Why don't all Blu-ray discs take the same time to load? More specifically: why can't manufacturing companies (studios?) make these times more consistent? Is there a certain specification (or list thereof) that manufacturing companies/studios must meet?

1) BD has two options for menus HDMV and BD-J, HDMV is much simpler but can't do as much
2) some BD-J titles run tests on the systems to know its capabilities so it will work well with what is designed
3) some live titles go to get data from the start
4)some have more content then others ( compare a plain static image to a menu with many changing images and sound obviously the second will have a lot more to DL before playing)
5) sometimes it is planned (i.e. make the splash screen last a bit longer)

[Jellybeans]

Why don't we all the icons for the movies in the menu ?

Some have the pic and some it's written bdmovie or such with the picture of a disc.

Will that be corrected ?

[Anthony P]

Originally Posted by Dark Elf

Why don't we all the icons for the movies in the menu ?

Some have the pic and some it's written bdmovie or such with the picture of a disc.

Will that be corrected ?

the icon is on the disk, if the author did not make the disk with the icon then there will never be one (i.e. nothing to correct)

[garlad]

Originally Posted by Anthony P

the icon is on the disk, if the author did not make the disk with the icon then there will never be one (i.e. nothing to correct)

Often wondered that myself.. But why cannot it not be made the standard? Seeing an icon of the film on your PS3 looks way better than it just saying 'bdrom' or whatever. I always thought it was the older discs that just didn’t have it?

[Jellybeans]

Originally Posted by Anthony P

the icon is on the disk, if the author did not make the disk with the icon then there will never be one (i.e. nothing to correct)

Thanks for answering my question!