Thanks for the Blu-Ray Posts

[Eric Pautsch]

LOL…the difference between HD DVD and all those formats you listed is all those are still in use today in one form or another.

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[Sean Oneil]

Yeah, except Betamax :).

Funny, I thought by the time the format war ended, both would be totally obsolete:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

Sean

[Walter Biscardi]

Is D9 still around?

I’ll tell you one thing, the first time you watch Pixar’s “Ratatouille” or “Cars” on a 50″ or larger HDTV Plasma display from the BluRay disc you will be in awe. Stand back about 10 feet (the recommended distance for a 50″ screen) and both films look almost 3D.

And the first time you author your first HD project to BluRay you’ll be in awe again because the disc looks exactly like your HD original. The first time I saw that I was just so happy to finally see the quality of our work able to maintain itself on a consumer format.

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[Doug Beal]

The first one we did we had to go back to the edit bay ’cause the blu ray looked better than what we were cutting. We had been monitoring SD in the edit bay to make sure broadcast would be OK. My kingdom for a Cine-tal

[Richard Martz]

I know what you mean about having exceptional monitoring. i was at Crawford Communications (Crawford.com) for several years. Crawford has been a leader from the beginning in the adoption of HD. One thing that we learned there was that it is very difficult to appreciate HD quality on monitors that have a diagonal measurement of less than 48 inches. You can certainly that it is HD but you still miss a lot of information. So when the HD edit suites were constructed they equipped them with HD test monitors but also with high quality HD projectors. With those projectors we could see EVERYTHING. We understood the strengths and weaknesses of our material and we could act accordingly to correct things that needed to be dealt with.

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[Chris Borjis]

[walter biscardi] “Is D9 still around?”

A client just brought me a box of D9 tapes the other day by golly. I rented a deck locally. I couldn’t believe I found one.

I still have a 1983 made laserdisc player and it plays every laserdisc I put in it.

[Richard Martz]

Yep on the D9.

The thing is we still have a lot to deal with – it is just different packaging. Now we have P2 chips and now Sony’s new XD CAM with both the CHIP recording version and the DVD/Disc record media. HDV on DV Tape. And there are probably some new formats that I’m not even familiar with yet. We will have to see what NAB holds. Of course with web marketing NAB doesn’t have the prestige that it used to have for exhibitors. Of Course we heard months ago that AVID was skipping NAB and marketing directly to customers “where they live and work”. I’m still waiting on a AVID rep to show up on my doorstep.

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[Chris Babbitt]

But, what about “Laser Rot?”

[Richard Martz]

Are you being funny or does that really happen. I’ve always had visions of someone opening a time vault in about 500 years and wondering what the strange shiny discs are.

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[Chris Babbitt]

Oh yes, it’s true. On some discs, several in my case, air gets in between the layers and a fungus develops, which results in a very noisy image that gets progressively worse. This was supposedly corrected once the problem was discovered, but I have it on a couple of the most recently manufactured discs.