You can fit all "Blossom" episodes on a single disc

[PhysicalMediaMaestro]

Before Mayim Bialik was Kat Silver....
Before she hosted Jeopardy...
Before she was Amy Farrah Fowler....
She was Blossom.

Airing between 1990 and 1995, Blossom was a noteworthy sitcom because its lead character was a teenage girl coming of age in an era when most coming-of-age sitcoms had teenage guys as the lead. It still has a loyal following decades later, but it has never been released on physical media in its entirety. But it can be done. And to make things easier for fans and for Disney (who produced the show under the Touchstone Television brand for NBC to air), you can fit all the episodes on a single disc.

Blossom was shot on standard-definition video. A single half-hour episode would take up one gigabyte of data. If you use an existing Blu-Ray BD-XL disc that holds 128 gigabytes of data, you can fit all 114 episodes of the show on a single disc with room to spare. And yes, BD-XL discs with a 128-gigabyte capacity are available to the general public.

https://www.runtechmedia.com/product...PL9VjPzaSHkFJ4

So would you buy the entire collection of "Blossom" episodes on a single Blu-Ray disc, even if all the episodes were in standard definition? Please let me know. Have a nice day.

[benricci]

I mean, considering virtually no one's blu-ray player is capable of reading BDXL discs....no?

[PenguinInfinity]

Originally Posted by benricci

I mean, considering virtually no one's blu-ray player is capable of reading BDXL discs....no?

Exactly. Why would anyone release something on a single disc that has terrible compatibility instead of using 3 discs that will work in every Blu-ray player?

[PhysicalMediaMaestro]

Originally Posted by benricci

I mean, considering virtually no one's blu-ray player is capable of reading BDXL discs....no?

What? I thought all the 4K Ultra HD movie releases were on 100 GB or 128 GB BDXL discs. How do they cram so much visual detail into 25 GB or 50 GB discs?

[benricci]

Originally Posted by PhysicalMediaMaestro

What? I thought all the 4K Ultra HD movie releases were on 100 GB or 128 GB BDXL discs. How do they cram so much visual detail into 25 GB or 50 GB discs?

BDXL is a different format, you are simply mixing things up. Regardless, I doubt the interest is there for Blossom on any BD format if we’re being honest with ourselves.

[Naiera]

Originally Posted by PhysicalMediaMaestro

What? I thought all the 4K Ultra HD movie releases were on 100 GB or 128 GB BDXL discs. How do they cram so much visual detail into 25 GB or 50 GB discs?

BDXL is a data disc format. UHD Blu-rays are 66 or 100 GB.

If you buy a BDXL drive for a computer, there are no guarantees at all that it'll read UHD BDs.

[PhysicalMediaMaestro]

Originally Posted by Naiera

BDXL is a data disc format. UHD Blu-rays are 66 or 100 GB.

If you buy a BDXL drive for a computer, there are no guarantees at all that it'll read UHD BDs.

If a UHD Blu-Ray disc can hold 100 gigabytes, it could hold all 100 episodes of "Bill Nye The Science Guy". You might not like that, but lots of K-12 teachers would like that.

[Naiera]

Sure...

[mikesncc1701]

Am I just really stoned or what? Blossom to Bill Nye to BDXL to teachers using these? The fact a user called PhysicalMediaMaestro has no idea what he's talking about concerning physical media?

[BudBaxter]

Back when blu-ray was initially announced there was a lot of talk about how you could fit an entire 22 episode season of tv on one disc.

To the best of my knowledge, that never happened. I can't imagine this would either. If nothing else, the A/V quality would be appalling...

[Cplhicks]

Has SD on a UHD disc ever been done? Thinking no. Wonder if it is possible. I know some studios had issues with SD on BD. Would be interesting to a see a show like that on 2 UHDs if there was no HD version, though I personally don't have much interest in Blossom specifically. I am guessing it would confuse a lot of people putting SD on a UHD disc, even if it is technically doable.