Sony Announces Release Dates for Blu-ray Discs

[Jedi2016]

Taken from here WTF One hell of a disclaimer Sony can get F****D They aint getting my hard earned cash!

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If you read the page closer, you'll see that they're referring to streaming media from your PC, not playback from BD discs. It makes sense, too.. you can't expect a set-top box to be able to decode every different kind of A/V codec out there. That's all they're referring to.

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

Well there's only one title I'd buy (thanks to Netflix allowing me to rent the others), which would be Robocop, now I just have to wait till June to see if A: Is it the uneditied directors cut? and B: Are they going to chop the 1.66:1 frame to make it anamorphic 1.78:1?

 

[pepar]

Well there's only one title I'd buy (thanks to Netflix allowing me to rent the others), which would be Robocop, now I just have to wait till June to see if A: Is it the uneditied directors cut? and B: Are they going to chop the 1.66:1 frame to make it anamorphic 1.78:1?

You know the drill - they release the movie on BD and then later they release the director's cut on BD and after that they release the ultimate version on BD and after that they release ALL the Robocop movies with a popcorn promotional tie-in with Orville.

 

[broberts]

So are these new Blue-ray titles actually going to be native 1080P? Or are they just going to scale up the 480P discs and re-release them? I'm just have chills about buying a BR disc that accomplishes nothing more than an upscaling DVD player.

 

[Jedi2016]

They're all native 1080p.

 

[avnetguy]

So are these new Blue-ray titles actually going to be native 1080P?

Good question!
Does anyone have a link that shows those releases will be from HD scanned film?
Wow, that would really suck if they pulled a stunt like upconverting 480p content and then save it as 1080p on disc.

Steve

 

[BMXTRIX]

I'm not aware of much of any film having been scanned in a format other than HD in recent years. What you get on HBO HD may be upconverted DVD, but most films, if they go through the trouble to scan them, scan them at HD resolutions... Usually 4K I believe... or more?

Very unlikely that we will see anything but higher resolution film masters that have been downconverted to 1080p/24 to be put onto the HD discs.

 

[Wayde Robson]

Some interesting points raised.

I wonder though... Will DTS HD be "as good" as DVD-Audio?

DTS already does DVD-A discs that also play on a DVD player.

I've read the specs on DTS HD ... 24/96, uncompressed "practically" unlimited channels. So in that respect I understand it actually tops DVD-A.

From an "audiophile" perspective, is there anything else? I mean, does this mean DTS HD is just DVD-Audio with more (potential) channels? Or am I missing something?

Because DTS has become the ad-hoc standard on both next-gen formats, I think Dolby Digital is in trouble? Being that, if I read correctly, there are discs with no D.D. format whatsoever.

What if DTS takes over the DVD-Audio format? I mean buys it or whatever. Does anyone own it? How far fetched would it be for DTS to create a DTS-HD/DVD-Audio codec and just fuse them? Then we wouldn't have any bother with "does it support DVD-Audio" or not. Any playback device that did DTS-HD would also do DVD-A. Or is it too late for that now?

To be honest I haven't thought this scenario through at all. But I see DTS on the rise, reading about that Pio BD player got me thinking about the implications of DTS taking over.

 

[MACCA350]

From an "audiophile" perspective, is there anything else? I mean, does this mean DTS HD is just DVD-Audio with more (potential) channels? Or am I missing something?

You're not missing anything. As far as the audio quality is concerned, MLP tracks on DVD-A, DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD are identical, they are all lossless formats bit-for-bit identical to the studio master. The only differences are the extra things that the formats can encompass.

Being that, if I read correctly, there are disc's with no D.D. format whatsoever.

Not so, Dolby TrueHD is a mandatory audio codec for HD DVD—all players must support it—and is an optional audio codec for Blu-ray Disc.

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