{"id":312,"date":"2009-03-29T10:29:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T23:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2010-01-28T13:29:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T02:29:30","slug":"wasting-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Wasting Space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I watched <em>Pale Rider<\/em>, a Clint Eastwood Western released on Blu-ray by Warner Bros. I strongly suspect it is the same as Warner Bros releases of the movie elsewhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>I find this disc interesting for a couple of reasons. One is that <a href=\"http:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/1480\/palerider.html\">blu-ray.highdefdigest.com gives it a good write up on picture quality<\/a>, whereas I thought it was one of the weakest titles I&#8217;ve seen. Mind you, I&#8217;d just finished watching the deep, deep blacks of <em>Sweeney Todd<\/em>. Still, the blacks of this movie were a deep muddy brown, and there was a persistent paler band down the right hand side of the frame. Some brief sections of the film were clearly out of focus, for which I suppose I should blame cinematography, rather than transfer. The 20.88Mbps average video bitrate for the VC1 encode is probably higher than average for Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<p>The other reason is the size of the disc. Both the highdefdigest review and Nero DiscSpeed 4 report that this is a dual layer disc. The maximum capacity of a single layer disc is, according to Wikipedia, 23.28GB (using 1,024 as the divisor for the &#8216;thousands&#8217;). This disc comes to 23.15GB, measured using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemasquid.com\/blu-ray\/tools\/bdinfo\">BDInfo<\/a>, AnyDVD HD and dir \/s. So this might be the first disc that actually wastes more that half its capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I watched Pale Rider, a Clint Eastwood Western released on Blu-ray by Warner Bros. I strongly suspect it is the same as Warner Bros releases of the movie elsewhere in the world. I find this disc interesting for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=312\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}