Category Archives: Disc details

New Blu-ray vs DVD comparisons

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Here are some new side-by-side Blu-ray vs PAL DVD comparisons that I’ve just put up: Disaster Movie The Queen Sin City Sleeping Beauty Some really stand out, such as this shot of a newspaper in Sin City: It’s not just … Continue reading →

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Sound, Branching and Disc Real Estate

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

My Blu-ray disc data gathering project continues, in which I try to determine as many technical and standards details as possible about Blu-ray discs. Of the nearly 300 Blu-ray discs in my database, 98 now have a ‘Completion’ score of … Continue reading →

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Warner Bros, Roadshow Entertainment and Gran Torino

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Most Warner Bros Blu-ray discs are fairly basic in their organisation. They lack BD-Java, BD-Live, BonusView and so on. I’m not complaining, because Warner Bros has been pretty aggressive at getting its back catalogue out there in the new format. … Continue reading →

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Speed demon

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

One word describes why I felt I needed a new computer: Blu-ray. My old computer would not play Blu-ray discs in any watchable way. Not that I watch them on a computer, but when checking things out, half the time … Continue reading →

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Day and Date everything

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Warner Bros says that it is proposing to release ‘day and date’ (where this term comes from I don’t know, but it means ‘on the same day’) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in just about all possible formats on … Continue reading →

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New Blu-ray disc notes

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Icon Film Distribution will soon (1 May, I think) be releasing Slumdog Millionaire on Blu-ray. My Blu-ray vs DVD comparison for this title is here. A sample: That company will also be releasing Transporter 3 on Blu-ray on 10 June … Continue reading →

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Super-dedicated WALL-E

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

I was scanning the Blu-ray version of WALL-E with BDInfo and discovered that it is organised very differently to the US one. That one apparently has the movie, with a run length of 1:37:25 in a single file (20000.M2TS). The … Continue reading →

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24 bit sound vs 16 bit sound and DTS-HD Master Audio

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve run BDInfo on the forthcoming Australian release of Slumdog Millionaire on Blu-ray from Icon Film Distribution. This turns out to be a very different encode to the US version. The main title details of the US version are here. … Continue reading →

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That’s a lot of bits

Posted on April 7, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve just been analysing the new Blu-ray release of the 1958 musical Gigi. This gets Dolby TrueHD 5.1 channel sound for the English track, backed up with Dolby Digital 5.1 at 640kbps. Foreign language audio is provided in French, German, … Continue reading →

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Finalising The Fifth Element

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Well, I have finally completed my almost-proof that the Australian Blu-ray version of The Fifth Element has identical video to the US remastered version (see two posts down). To do this I extracted the first 999 ‘I’ frames from each … Continue reading →

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