Higher peak bitrate speeds up encoding 'considerably', saves studios money

[Sonny]

They will eventually start using AVC & lossless on all BD's

[GarettP]

Originally Posted by HDTV1080P

This post is a theory only. There is no link. It would be the most logical path for Warner. My original post I used the words might and maybe several times.

Sorry, I just hope it happens too! And no more DD 5.1 want more PCM 5.1!

[owa]

In a thread earlier today, Grubert posted a quote from DV (who was quoting sources from Global Digital Media Xchange apparently) that says they plan to do this.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...ghlight=Warner

Warner will continue to do VC-1 encodes, but they are upping the bitrate to the max for BD encodes and according to a very good source at GDMX, this will speed up the encoding process considerably because of not having to hand tweak hard to encode scenes as much. This is one of the benefits of Blu-ray with the higher peak bitrate and will allow cost savings on the encoding side.

[blu reality]

It's sad that so many releases were handicapped by Dud's limitations.

[dobyblue]

The 30GB thing is nowhere near as important as the increase in bandwidth Blu-ray offers for Warner's compressionists.

The 40 Mbps for video on Blu-ray vs. the 29 Mbps for video on HD DVD will mark the biggest improvements and you'll start seeing it no doubt for 10,000 B.C.'s release.

[Horhay]

Originally Posted by Sonny

I hope so too. But Uni & Para will give us crappy ports of whats already out. But hopefully they will get with the program soon after going Blu.

That would suck, keeping in mind that their last releases on blu were fantastic!

[HDTV1080P]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

The 30GB thing is nowhere near as important as the increase in bandwidth Blu-ray offers for Warner's compressionists.

The 40 Mbps for video on Blu-ray vs. the 29 Mbps for video on HD DVD will mark the biggest improvements and you'll start seeing it no doubt for 10,000 B.C.'s release.

Yes increased bandwidth (higher bit rates) is more important then storage capacity. Of course with more storage capacity means less optical discs needed. Hopefully one day 100GB and 200GB discs will become a reality. A BLU-RAY bit rate of around 48 Mbps for combined video and audio could take advantage of a 200 GB disc.

[Clark Kent]

I had suspected this for quite awhile. It's why the big titles on the HD DVD side have looked as good as they have. The HD DVD studios were tweaking and retweaking the video encodes over and over for the big titles(Blade Runner, Transformers, King Kong, etc).

But since catalog titles and smaller day and date titles didn't warrant that much time and cost they come out looking pathetic at HD DVD limited specs. This is all starting to make sense. It explains why so many Universal catalog titles look like nothing more than dvd upconverted.

[richteer]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

The 30GB thing is nowhere near as important as the increase in bandwidth Blu-ray offers for Warner's compressionists.

The 40 Mbps for video on Blu-ray vs. the 29 Mbps for video on HD DVD will mark the biggest improvements and you'll start seeing it no doubt for 10,000 B.C.'s release.

I think both are important. Higher bit rates implies less compression, which in turn requires more disk space. Once movies exceed a certain length at maximum bit rates, disk space will be the limiting factor.

But, I am very glad that Warner is finally going to make the effort to make their releases Blu-ray optimised. Which should also shut up the HD DVD faithful...