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Sony authors the first BluRay disc containing a feature film
Published by admin November 19th, 2005 in News“Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) president Benjamin S. Feingold today announced that authoring has been completed on the first Blu-ray Disc (BD) to contain a full-length, high-definition feature film. Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle was compressed and authored in MPEG 2 full high-definition (1920 x 1080) by Sony Pictures’ Digital Authoring Center (DAC) and is now being shipped to BD hardware companies for player testing.”
I guess they chose “Charlie’s Angels: More Inanity” so they wouldn’t feel sad if they got a bad disc burn. *rimshot*
This Slashdot poster may have the real reason though: “…they won’t have to worry about anybody trying to pirate the first Blu Ray disc because nobody will want it”
Seems plausible to me.
UPDATE: HDBeat has discussion on better movie selections for launching this new format.
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why did the encode in mpeg2 and not h.264??? this is really strange… or do they have problems with the h.264 decoders for the players like the satellite operators in europe…. HDTV via SAT/h.264 was postponed 2 times now…. 2 channels are broadcasting via astra satellite using h.264 codec, but nobody is able to watch those because no company is able to deliver receivers before the end of the year…
Interesting sidenote about the ethereal Euro SAT decoders, smoke. Perhaps that’s it in this case, or maybe they are just more comfortable with an MPEG workflow, since they’ve got it downpat by now. I’d sure be interested to hear the reasons they have…