Blue Ray content on "plain old" DVD

[gverig]

I am not talking about burning blue ray movies onto standard DVDs.

Blue ray specification consists of two parts: blue ray disks (laser technology, cool lights, 50G - or more depending on number of layers, etc.) and the content specification- how menus are laid out, what codecs are supported, networking support, local storage and mandatory support of a subversion of Java specification (BDJ). I don't care about size. Lets pretend that I have 2 seconds of high def video (or potentially no content at all). I want to play with other parts of the specifications- menus, transitions, java code, etc. But I maybe kinda a little bit curious which does not to me justify a trip to Fry's for a BD burner and much less a $$ for mentioned burner.

[dadkins]

Originally Posted by gverig

I am not talking about burning blue ray movies onto standard DVDs.

Blue ray specification consists of two parts: blue ray disks (laser technology, cool lights, 50G - or more depending on number of layers, etc.) and the content specification- how menus are laid out, what codecs are supported, networking support, local storage and mandatory support of a subversion of Java specification (BDJ). I don't care about size. Lets pretend that I have 2 seconds of high def video (or potentially no content at all). I want to play with other parts of the specifications- menus, transitions, java code, etc. But I maybe kinda a little bit curious which does not to me justify a trip to Fry's for a BD burner and much less a $$ for mentioned burner.

Sure! You can put anything on a DVD-R... space permitting.
Playing it back *WILL* require playing it back on a computer optical drive capable of spinning it fast enough for the bitrate of the video burned.
*ALSO* you will need some sort of Bu-ray playback software, or some player software that can digest the m2ts file format.

Computer specs should exceed 2.0GHz dual core and a semi decent graphics solution for smooth playback.
The menus and "added features" should work as well.

[plee]

Originally Posted by gverig

I am not talking about burning blue ray movies onto standard DVDs.

Blue ray specification consists of two parts: blue ray disks (laser technology, cool lights, 50G - or more depending on number of layers, etc.) and the content specification- how menus are laid out, what codecs are supported, networking support, local storage and mandatory support of a subversion of Java specification (BDJ). I don't care about size. Lets pretend that I have 2 seconds of high def video (or potentially no content at all). I want to play with other parts of the specifications- menus, transitions, java code, etc. But I maybe kinda a little bit curious which does not to me justify a trip to Fry's for a BD burner and much less a $$ for mentioned burner.

First, its Bluray not Blue ray...

Second, there is a book (can't remember) that talks about the BDJ specs and has some examples. As of right now there is no cheap tool to help you create the menus/BDJ type stuff (ie. a game, etc...)

I think you can "develop" in Java, making sure you only use the BDJ calls, you can do it that way...but you'll have to wait until an affordable tool comes along to actually test it out...

[Ex Accountant]

Originally Posted by plee

First, its Bluray not Blue ray...

Not to be a jerk, but actually it's Blu-ray.

[Rob J in WNY]

...and Blu-ray is definitely not "blurry."

[gverig]

Thank you for comments and suggestions.