two versions on one disc

[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.

[kpkelley]

Originally Posted by blu-backer

DVD? We're talkin' 'bout DVD? <in attemped Allen Iverson voice>

Not a Blu-ray. N n n not a Blu-ray. We're talkin' 'bout DVD!!! <also in attempted Allen Iverson voice>


How you gonna pay for that?

Straight cash homey. <Not Iverson, but sill one of my favorites.>

[Kristin Simard]

Originally Posted by chasarms

I think the OP is about the BDs that are presented in the original aspect ratio on the disc. For example, POTC, Pearl Harbor, The Patriot, etc. (Those are the ones off the top of my head that I own) Those films display black bars at the top and bottom of the screen.

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.

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[blu-backer]

Originally Posted by kpkelley

Not a Blu-ray. N n n not a Blu-ray. We're talkin' 'bout DVD!!! <also in attempted Allen Iverson voice>


How you gonna pay for that?

Straight cash homey. <Not Iverson, but sill one of my favorites.>

lol

[Sy-]

Originally Posted by blu-ray fan002

That way people can just grab a DVD and not have to worry if they grabbed the wrong format.

What's DVD?

[TheRealBob]

Originally Posted by blu-ray fan002

Why don't studios put wide and full screen on 1 disc and on one side (instead of using a double sided disc) like with the unrated and "R" versions of "American Gangster"? That way people can just grab a DVD and not have to worry if they grabbed the wrong format.

Yes, troll, you already posted this nonsensical question in a thread entitled "widescreen/fullscreen" just 3 days ago:

Originally Posted by blu-ray fan002

Why can't studios put the widescreen/fullscreen option on one disc and let the viewer choose which one to view when hitting "play" on the main menu? A lot of people where I work have a hard telling the difference between which is widescreen and fullscreen.

As was explained to you then, troll, Blu-ray movies don't come in widescreen and full-screen, so this question doesn't make any sense.

Go stir up trouble somewhere else, troll.

Thread reported.

[Gamma_Winstead]

Originally Posted by TheRealBob

Yes, troll, you already posted this nonsensical question in a thread entitled "widescreen/fullscreen" just 3 days ago:



As was explained to you then, troll, Blu-ray movies don't come in widescreen and full-screen, so this question doesn't make any sense.

Go stir up trouble somewhere else, troll.

Thread reported.

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*Yes I am actually serious*