Are PS3's multi regional?

[slarkin1701]

Originally Posted by WriteSimply

Troll.


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I know what troll means but whats fuad?

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lol how does fuad stand for that?

Originally Posted by quirkmanly

Firefly was released on three 50GB discs. Did you expect 10 hours of content on a single disc?

interesting The EU one was on 4 discs - i assume 200GB worth of data - the increase in file sizes will hopefully lead to an increase in DVD sales - i was saying on another forum that with the BSG complete box set being 250 dollers is € 190ish - but 20 50GB discs? thats 1000GB for the BSG box set. Thats a 1TB file for the downloaders. So basically you can buy the box set for € 190 or you can buy a new 1TB hard drive for € 70 - ex vat - and then spend hours downloading 1TB worth of files.

Your better off buying the box set because one you work in costs of the hard drive to store it on and the time to download 1TB your better off buying the box set.

Still it will be interesting to see when they get leaked if firefly will be 200GB and if BSG will be 1TB - i doubt it because i assume it costs more money to make a 50GB bluray disc than it costs to make say a 35GB disc. i dont think each firefly disc contained 50GB and im wondering if it will be the same with BSG.

Anyway the more content and extra features they cram onto the bluray discs the more likely someone will buy the product instead of going though the effort of downloading.

Anway to get back on topic i think bluray saying 50GB discs was a bit of a con considering the amount of movies released on 2 disc blurays instead of 1 single 50GB disc full because its cheaper to make to make smaller discs meaning larger proffit margin when it goes to retail.

Originally Posted by 4K2K

It doesn't matter that Blu-ray titles are usually encoded at 1080/24p - at least for the main feature. The fact remains that:-
1) There are 50hz Blu-ray titles (1080/50i, 576/50i). Titles that have either some or all content in these formats (there's no 480/50i content - it's 576/50i)
2) 1080/50i and 576/50i (as well as 1280x720@50p) are part of the Blu-ray specifications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc
http://www.blu-raydisc.com/Assets/Do...2955-15269.pdf
3) US PS3s are not supporting what is in the Blu-ray specifications.
4) This is a problem for both consumers and the studios.
5) 50hz or 25p is the native recording format for many productions. Not supporting it also means format conversions and lower quality video & audio encodes (like Blu-ray encodes slowed down by 4.096% or things shot at 50i which get converted to 60i), as well as increased costs for the studios.


If a consumer owns a display that doesn't accept 50hz content (the format used in broadcasting to most of the world's population) - because the manufacturer has disabled it, other US players - those that actually support what is part of the Blu-ray specifications - allow it to be converted by the player into something the display does support.

And why would someone not be able to view 480/60i content? Are you saying there are PS3s that don't support that too?

Thanks

[RiseDarthVader]

Originally Posted by slarkin1701

i doubt it because i assume it costs more money to make a 50GB bluray disc than it costs to make say a 35GB disc

Anway to get back on topic i think bluray saying 50GB discs was a bit of a con considering the amount of movies released on 2 disc blurays instead of 1 single 50GB disc full because its cheaper to make to make smaller discs meaning larger proffit margin when it goes to retail.

Okay first of all the 1 layer BDs are 25GB not 35GB. And second most of the new releases depending on the studio is actually on a 50GB BD. I dont get where you are getting this conspiracy theory from of the releases just because they are 2 Disc means they are a BD25. The reason they still have 2 Discs is because you want to use up as much space as you can on the BD50 for the movie. And then just chuck all the extras on a BD25. Also check your punctuation and spelling. You sound like a teenagers that just got Blu-rays and has a crazy conspiracy theory about studios conning the consumers when you can see if it is a BD25 or BD50 on the back of the case.

[slarkin1701]

Originally Posted by RiseDarthVader

Okay first of all the 1 layer BDs are 25GB not 35GB. And second most of the new releases depending on the studio is actually on a 50GB BD. I dont get where you are getting this conspiracy theory from of the releases just because they are 2 Disc means they are a BD25. The reason they still have 2 Discs is because you want to use up as much space as you can on the BD50 for the movie. And then just chuck all the extras on a BD25. Also check your punctuation and spelling. You sound like a teenagers that just got Blu-rays and has a crazy conspiracy theory about studios conning the consumers when you can see if it is a BD25 or BD50 on the back of the case.

We are a MS house in work and want to keep MS products so im on IE 8 and not firefox so no spell check also i tend to be a rush during the day.

35GB was a random number i pulled out - basically im complaining about having two discs because a 3 hour movie in 1080p is not 50GB worth of data. so i dont see how or why movies that are an hour and a 1/2 - 2 hours long require 2 discs. - thats just a complaint i have about bluray - thats not why i came here which was to find out if i have to buy a us bluray player to watch a tv show i like