Is Warner screwing up Blu-ray titles because of HD DVD??

[MrVorhees]

Hey there,
i just finished watching the departed on blu-ray some scenes are very sharp and colorfull but then at some moments i was like "hey wtf the image looks very soft" example; scene at 2:12 runtime.

i wasnt sure whats going on (never had some like that on blu-ray before) so i pressed the "select" button on my Ps3 controller to check the birate, and it says "6.8mbps" to maximal 8mbps at this scene.

Now my question is, HOW?? has it something to do because its a warner release and the same transfer as the one on the HD DVD ?
i mean the runtime of that movie is 151 Min, could that be the thing that "the departet" has some scenes with a very low birate? cause they couldnt make it higher cause the 30GB of HD DVD??

before some people here flame on me, i really have NO IDEA why the birate is that low at some scenes, i just ask and try to find the answer here on this forum from the Blu-Ray/HD DVD experts.

Ok i asked the same question on AVS , many people told me it has something to do with the discsize from HD DVD, they couldnt handle constant high birate with 30GB.

HERE YOU GO.

151min = 9060 seconds

encoded at 25MBit/s avg. like you suggested that adds up to 9060*25/8 = 28312.5 MByte / 1024 = 27.65 GByte...

Max. capacity of HD-DVD is 30,000,000 bytes = 28.61 GByte

Now add 1 GB for overhead, 2 GB for ported SD extras, ~ 3GB for the audio tracks (TrueHD @ ~ 2MBit/s avg, 640kbs DD+) and we are already WELL over the max capacity of HD-DVD.