Well, that has been a struggle. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has sent me both the Blu-ray and DVD versions of the most recent Pixar animation: WALL-E<\/a><\/em>. So I set out to do a Blu-ray vs DVD comparison. There were some interesting things the process revealed.<\/p>\n First, instead of Disney packing the entire movie into one large 20GB+ file on the disc, as generally happens, it split it up into twenty-ish smaller files, ranging from about half a gigabyte up to over six gigabytes in size. I ended up having to write a DOS batch file to automate the extraction of the shots from these files.<\/p>\n Second, the Blu-ray seems to be region coded for B and C, but not for A. That’s a bit weird, and the first one of those I’ve come across.<\/p>\n Third, the DVD seems to have layers upon layers of protection. When I inserted the disc in the computer, it trashed around for ages before it did anything useful. Here’s what AnyDVD HD<\/a> eventually reported:<\/p>\n Checking the disc using Windows Explorer, it was reported to have a size of 7.46GB. Opening up the disc and checking the contents of the VIDEO_TS folder, I found claimed contents of 61.7GB. The main *.VOB movie files seemed to be listed under different names eleven times! It seems the studio has screwed around with the disc table of contents. I copied one of these to the hard drive, but despite several applications of ‘Quickstream Fix’ by Video ReDo Plus<\/a>, attempting to play the resulting file crashed VideoReDo Plus. That’s the first time Quickstream Fix has been unable to produce something playable for me.<\/p>\n Fortunately, the disc working happily in PowerDVD<\/a> so I was able to get me comparison shots, albeit in a tedious way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, that has been a struggle. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has sent me both the Blu-ray and DVD versions of the most recent Pixar animation: WALL-E. So I set out to do a Blu-ray vs DVD comparison. There were … Continue reading Media is a DVD.\r\nBooktype: dvd-rom (version 1), Layers: 2 (opposite)\r\nSize of first Layer: 2072144 sectors (4047 MBytes)\r\nTotal size: 3912832 sectors (7642 MBytes)\r\n\r\nVideo DVD (or CD) label: WALL_E_LIC2_D1\r\nMedia is CSS protected!\r\nVideo Standard: PAL\r\nMedia is locked to region(s): 2 4!\r\n\r\nRCE protection not found.\r\nFound & removed structural copy protection!\r\nFound & removed invalid cell pieces!\r\nFound & removed bogus title set(s)!\r\nUDF filesystem patched!\r\nAutorun not found on Video DVD.\r\nFound & removed 9 potential bad sector protections!\r\nEmulating RPC-2 drive with region 4!<\/pre>\n