two versions on one disc

[blu-ray fan002]

trust me, I hate full screen. I'm just tired of customers coming up to me asking "Is this full or widescreen"? I've even had some customers want a refund because they grabbed the wrong format.

[EvolutionCherry]

Originally Posted by blu-ray fan002

trust me, I hate full screen. I'm just tired of customers coming up to me asking "Is this full or widescreen"? I've even had some customers want a refund because they grabbed the wrong format.

Why can't people read the back of the disc package? I mean it states the screen format.

[broganreynik]

Originally Posted by EvolutionCherry

Why can't people read the back of the disc package? I mean it states the screen format.

On the back of the Back to the Future Trilogy it doesn't state the screen format, and I ended up buying the fullscreen one. Boy was I pissed!

[EvolutionCherry]

Originally Posted by broganreynik

On the back of the Back to the Future Trilogy it doesn't state the screen format, and I ended up buying the fullscreen one. Boy was I pissed!

Ah. Sorry to hear that.

[OokieSpookie]

I know that generally it is much easier to encode a complete other version and then to find a way to stuff it on a disk with the main version...
But ..and i know this is a wild idea...but wouldn't it be easier to educate them on the screen feature on their tv and their player that allows them to fill the screen with one press of a button?

[Bobby Henderson]

I believe the poster wants a version of the film pre-cropped to 16:9 available on the same disc. Although, I'm not you could get both on the same disc without compression.

1080p video on Blu-ray Disc is already compressed, and often the video compression is fairly severe at that.

Uncompressed HD-SDI video streams in 1080p run at roughly 1.5 Billion bits per second. On BD, that video bit rate has to be squeezed to under 40 million bits per second.

If the movie has to fit on a single layer BD-25 disc then it is going to be compressed quite a bit worse and yield even more inferior video quality. And that's what we would be stuck with if we had to fit two different framing versions of one movie on the same disc. It's a terrible compromise that should not be made on a high end video presentation format.

[kalkin84]

Originally Posted by EvolutionCherry

Why can't people read the back of the disc package? I mean it states the screen format.

and sometimes it even says on the front of the box (on the banner along the top). Look on the back, if it doesn't explicitly state the format as "wide" or "full" it will give a ration "X:Y." Anything 1.6:1 or higher is widescreen.

or this: "does this disc have DTS?"

>.<

READ PEOPLE!!

[Blu-Dog]

Originally Posted by blu-ray fan002

trust me, I hate full screen. I'm just tired of customers coming up to me asking "Is this full or widescreen"? I've even had some customers want a refund because they grabbed the wrong format.

Just shake your head and walk away.