80% Of The New Releases Are Going To Be 50gb Discs To Maintain The Best Quality

[Shadowself]

Originally Posted by Unkn0wn47

Well that is wonderful news! Especially that movies are now being filmed in HD and some great long films (The Matrix, Indiana Jones, LotR) are on the way that will be taking up a lot of space. I can't wait to get my Blu-ray collection to over 100. Should be there in a few months.

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Film has been better resolution than SD since the 30s (and some before that). It's not that films are now shot in HD. It's that we now have a generally and publicly available medium to take advantage of what is in film. I just wish they'd all go to the original negatives and create a true, oversampled, high dynamic range digital master. Then we'd be able to see 100% of what's really available.

Originally Posted by d0uble0se7en

i'd be more excited if this was for all studios but this is just for sony.

I believe that eventually all studios will migrate to a predominance of 50 GB disks. When Sony (and others) consistently get great reviews after using lossless audio and AVC (or even VC-1) at high bit rates which necessitates the 50 GB disks then everyone will get on board with this.

Originally Posted by jorg

i hope the last 20 % are music releases and stuff liek that i would like 100% of movies on bd 50

There are films that will fit within 25 GB. Some old films have very limited sound tracks. In my opinion it makes no sense to do lossless 5.1 or 7.1 sound on those. And many films during the 70s were less than 90 minutes in length (a lower percentage now, but still some are that short). Combining limited sound tracks and reduced length can reasonably fit within 25 GB at the highest quality possible.