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Patton is Phenomenal!!!

06-16-2008, 12:53 PM

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mhafner

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Originally Posted by patrick99

My theory as to why Fox so misguidedly went the DNR route on Patton: in order to fit the movie on a single disc. The bitrates on the Patton BD are fairly low, yet the movie occupies about 80% of the available space. Without the DNR, a single disc would not have accommodated the movie. That's my theory.

I see no technical justification for that theory. Patton is ~170 minutes. With a 50GB Blu Ray disk you can encode this with grain and fine detail and get a very good quality picture. Patton as is could be put on a 25 GB disc without problems. Smooth stuff like this compresses well.

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