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Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: Blu-ray - Recent Posts http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: Blu-ray - Recent Posts en Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:16:23 +0000 Don on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-74488 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:41:18 +0000 Don 74488@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I never bough into blue ray and never regretted it. Streaming is the way..and it gets better and easier every year. composite1 on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-74486 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:27:04 +0000 composite1 74486@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Personally, I'm disappointed with Blu-Ray. I actually preferred HDVD as the content creators back then took advantage of its capabilities and you got a lot of material on a disc. With Blu-Ray it's like was mentioned all they seemed to do was take a large format disc and treat it like a VHS. You barely see any content on them unless you pay an exorbitant amount of money and even then, it's nothing like you would think. Plus, much of the additional content isn't HD anyway which is also a gip. You can tell they are getting ready to phase it out because blu-ray player prices are falling significantly. There is hype about 'Violet Ray' tech, but I'm not excited about it because they aren't going to do anything different than what they did with blu-ray. I actually prefer DVD over blu-ray as it is less expensive and when they don't short you on content, the experience is still satisfying. Ever watch the full four disc set of "Kingdom of Heaven" the Director's cut? I have. Several times.... I agree though. Everything is headed toward streaming. Right now, pirates have paved the way for how the tech works, content will be seen and get monetized which is why the massive effort to get them out of the picture is underway. Sad though, as hollywood and the big networks already had the means and money to have gotten things going sooner but they were still trying to drag their old models of doing things into the new medium. The just don't understand that early on, nobody wants to watch 'stacked ads' on-line or on their mobile devices. The pirates figured that out a long time ago. iankinnz on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-74462 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:41:55 +0000 iankinnz 74462@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/   I agree with Weddingmaster Blu Ray is the way to go. Sure until the HD-DVD thing was settled and Hollywood movies started to be commonly released on Blu Ray, there was a low saturation of Blu Ray players. The extra cost to buy the Blu Ray version of a movie didnâ??t help either. But now that in New Zealand at least, the cost difference between Blu Ray and DVD movies is disappearing and players are starting to sell at sub NZ$100 the saturation of Blu Ray players is increasing. Analogue TV is being closed down here and replaced with mainly HD digital TV transmissions and large full HD flat panel TVs are selling as quickly as McDonaldâ??s hamburgers at the moment. Once HD becomes the norm DVDs will quickly become an inferior product. For myself, I purchased a Blu Ray burner for my workstation nearly two years ago and purchased my first HD camera about the same time. I have recently sold my last SD camera and will be completely HD (1080p) from now on. The difference in cost for blank media is insignificant compared to the production costs so why would you deliver your product on anything else but Blu Ray? Streaming may be fine but reliable bandwidth is some time away. Maybe Blu Ray will be replaced with SD cards or some such standard, but memory and replication costs will have to drop a long way to match. I think Blu Ray is here for a while yet. Weddingmaster on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-74406 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:57:22 +0000 Weddingmaster 74406@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I feel just the opposite.I love Blu Ray and my clients love it as well. I do 90% Weddings, Most clients will ask for both BD and DVD and then I will get replies a week later saying WOW! what a difference. Part 2, I just learned recently that I can rip a BD recordable that I have created back to my editing timeline and still have H-264 quality ready to make demos, highlight discs etc. try that with a DVD. on another note I hope 3d fades away as quick as it did in the 70's or 80's whenever it was that they tried to push that weird format on everyone. :-) Im all for online playback and storage but with true 1080P youtube has a ways to go..even on the fastest connection out there. I have an HD demo on there now and have played it on several computers and they all have issues streaming without hiccups. Harry iankinnz on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-74405 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:53:50 +0000 iankinnz 74405@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <html /> Ian James Smith on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-74392 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:53:06 +0000 Ian James Smith 74392@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ In our case we simply purchased a Blu-Ray player. With it, I understand, I am able to play material from DVD-discs which fall outside the 'DVD-standard'; meaning that, for most purposes, I'd be quite happy with my ouput on DVD-discs, but incorporating progressive-scan as an alternative to 'interlace'. I have a blu-ray reader/writer less than a metre from me as I type this. It has sat there in its box for 13 months, and I have, as yet, only unpacked the 'manual' to bring myself up-to-speed with what it is capable of doing. It awaits the arrival of a new up-to-date computer in about a couple of months time. Out there in the wedding/small-scale pro field, I am unaware of any demand for work on Blu-Ray, as opposed to DVD. However, in New Zealand, currently, there are four individuals awaiting extradition to the US for copyright piracy and other misdeeds. Involved with their operation is a considerable amount of 'cloud' style storage, which the owners of the data being held, have no access to at the moment, as court proceedings drag-on. For that reason, I am intensely suspicious of anything 'on-line'. In my experience, this phenomenon invariably leads to significant extra expense, as is happening with an ever increasing amount of TV content in this country becoming in-effect, 'pay-to-view'. By keeping everything of mine, 'in-house' I avoid all of the hassle and 'aggro'. In any case, broadband in New Zealand is so abysmal, that many won't contemplate quitting 'dial-up' until such times as the situation improves. There is, for example, a significant deterioration in internet performance when the students flock back to Dunedin, (a 'University' city), after the summer break. Many times, when downloading, incoming internet activity is down to 20 percent of the time, or less. Ian Smith - Dunedin, New Zealand kmrscripts on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-74381 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:11:18 +0000 kmrscripts 74381@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/  Great conversation thread.... In our effort to "future proof" our business, we spend a lot of money on technology that MIGHT take off.  DVD is standard, Blu-ray is a nice plus, 3D is a gimmick (a profitable gimick).  It seems to me that the ultimate profiter on 3D is manufacturers.  The benefit to the consumer is minimal.  How many times have I heard the excuse "after the first 5 minutes of oooos and ahhhhs, I forget I'm watching 3D and just enjoy the story."  My customers don't want 3D for their wedding vids. vid-e-o-man on "Blu-ray in 1995?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/blu-ray-in-1995#post-73971 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:50:16 +0000 vid-e-o-man 73971@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/  ophelia, interesting question. We've all probably seen movies that have been rereleased on Blu-ray. The producers probably used equipment/software that we can't afford. This leads me to ask Birdcat about the equipment he uses to produce such a large image. Adding images from old slides/film to a Blu-ray production would be very useful to some upcoming projects that I have planned. Keep shooting. ophelia on "Blu-ray in 1995?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/blu-ray-in-1995#post-73957 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:06:02 +0000 ophelia 73957@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Thanks guys! birdcat on "Blu-ray in 1995?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/blu-ray-in-1995#post-73956 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:59:27 +0000 birdcat 73956@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I have a film scanner that scans 35mm negatives among other things. If I scan at the highest resolution I get a file that is 5184 X 3360 pixels - more than enough for measly HD (1920 X 1080). EarlC on "Blu-ray in 1995?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/blu-ray-in-1995#post-73955 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:43:29 +0000 EarlC 73955@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Film, ophelia, can certainly be resolved to Blu-ray specifications, depending on the equipment used. ophelia on "Blu-ray in 1995?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/blu-ray-in-1995#post-73954 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:31:50 +0000 ophelia 73954@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Whoops - typo: Blu-ray! ophelia on "Blu-ray in 1995?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/blu-ray-in-1995#post-73953 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:30:16 +0000 ophelia 73953@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Any thoughts on how a film from 1995, for example: 'The Quick & the Dead" can be offered on Bu-ray? signmax on "VERY fast DVD/Blu Ray duplicator?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/very-fast-dvdblu-ray-duplicator#post-70731 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:56:09 +0000 signmax 70731@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hi, May be nobody on this forum has a machine cost this price, look on the web industrial DVD using silk screening and duplication. You need a floor space about 20 x 20 and you need contract. I suggest to you find a producer near your location they charge less than 0.70 to duplicate and print on DVD also they can package in DVD case add trap sheet a good DVD case cost between 0.14 to 0.22 and trapsheet 0,25 to 0,79 Personnaly try to find somebody with all equipment to produce for you is much less problem than start from 0. Regards, YR Yanni on "VERY fast DVD/Blu Ray duplicator?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/very-fast-dvdblu-ray-duplicator#post-70721 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:15:00 +0000 Yanni 70721@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hello, I am new to the duplication field, and was hoping you could give me some suggestions on extremely fast DVD/Blu Ray duplicators. I dont need any printing, just burning. I need a machine that can preferably duplicate a ~4GB DVD every 30 seconds or less and the same for a Blu Ray as well. I know these are extremely high standards, but I am willing to look into a machine that can do this that is priced up to $50,000. Thanks, and any help would be very appreciated. Jaimie on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-70639 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:05:13 +0000 Jaimie 70639@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Earl pretty much reflects my situation. I offer BD but nobody wants it. I also offer streaming video as part of a more expensive package. It seems to help sell the upgraded package and costs very little. Jaimie michael9 on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-70625 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:35:30 +0000 michael9 70625@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I'm not sure it's a big issue in that many NLE's offer BluRay and usb bluray burners don't cost much now. If the client stipulates bluray then it's relatively easy to give them a bluray disc and adjust the cost. I see files and remote storage becoming more popular but older mainstream folk who aren't tech savvy often just want to pop some sort of disc in a player. John Tate on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-70623 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:32:29 +0000 John Tate 70623@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/  I don't think well see bluray take off and become the next big thing distribution way instead i believe in the future all our content will be distributed to us over the internet. We can instantly stream HD movies over the internet with software like zune, itunes, netflix, hulu, youtube, etc, just imagine the future. In the future we probably won't even own a hard copy of our media, well access it through the internet. I own a PS3 and have never played a bluray movie, instead I have streamed movies through the PS3 online rental service.     I use DVD's and Youtube to distribute my media. Rocky on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-69637 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:02:31 +0000 Rocky 69637@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ DVD's and BluRay seem to me to be a repetition of a previous scenario played out between the Beta-Cord and VHS video systems. Beta Cord was the technically superior system and used exclusively in TV broadcasting. However it was VHS that won the battle in consumer market place. To date, I have never had a request to provide a client with a BluRay disc, it’s always DVD’s. However I have invested in a dual DVD/BluRay burner… just in case. BluRay were first introduced to the market in 2003 and if they were destined to replace DVD’s it should have occurred by now. A concern I have with both DVD and BluRay is the natural life of recorded product. EarlC on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-69625 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:11:21 +0000 EarlC 69625@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I do a LOT of event productions where I work once and sell many. NOBODY from ANY of my dance recital, school drama, choral, youth sports, graduation events or other celebrations or productions demand or express an interest or desire in getting their productions via streaming or web distribution. ALL of them WANT that DVD and I'm not about to try and convince them otherwise. Video producers who do ONE of something for a single individual ... weddings, for example ... might benefit from streaming or online distribution at present. I also do hundreds of funerals and/or memorial montages a year and only one since 1994 (six weeks ago for the first time) has EVER asked for streaming or online in lieu of DVD hard copy. So, though it might be "old fashioned" or "so 20th Century" I'll stick with the current demand for DVDs from my client base. Avic Okinawa on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-69607 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 02:24:57 +0000 Avic Okinawa 69607@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Thank you very much for replies, everybody! Personally, I think physical discs old-fashioned and very hard to handle nowadays. It's not about quality. I don't listen to music on CDs anymore even though MP3s don't deliver better quality. I really like the idea of delivering videos on non-physical format online. In the meantime, we just wait and see... WSanford on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-69429 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:46:13 +0000 WSanford 69429@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Google, On2 VP8 codec, the WebM project...yada, yada, yada. Add to that HTML5 and mobile sites, yada, yada, yada. Media is definately moving away from DVD but where could really be anyones guess for now. Just makes me appreciate the 8-track days even more. :-) Don on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-69425 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:09:15 +0000 Don 69425@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I prefer to use an Apple tv to view my hd content on big screen.... as far as I'm concerned, BR will never reach the levels or market saturation DVD had. BlueRays future was history before it even started. signmax on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-69422 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:44:44 +0000 signmax 69422@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hey, When you present your holiday movie on large screen TV a real difference between DVD and B-R color, definition and picture are more live. The only thing thay stay DVD in life is the low price media but in near future 3D coming so fast at least 5% of prosumer have in hand a 3D camera. Since 6 months only everything change fast. Check price on B-R player. Regards, YR pseudosafari on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-69420 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:19:45 +0000 pseudosafari 69420@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ i agree with eric for what it's worth. streaming through youtube or netflix satisfies most people. not Blu Ray quality for sure, but "good enough" for most people I talk to. I have an HD TV and love Blu Ray but even Youtube looks good on it most of the time. birdcat on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-69410 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:47:49 +0000 birdcat 69410@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I am finding more people asking for BluRay but not nearly as many as want DVD's. My workflow is now all done in 16:9 which can be output to either (widescreen DVD or BD). Interesting is a discussion I've had with D. Eric Franks on this - He believes medium will be irrelevant shortly as we move to an on-demand delivery model (all video ever produced anywhere viewable on any device). At first I argued that people like my parents (in their 80's) would never buy into this sort of thing (they still have problems with their VCR) but I am starting to change my thinking (my mother now Skype's using a webcam - whooda think it?). Eric may turn out to be very right. Avic Okinawa on "the future of Blu-ray" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/the-future-of-blu-ray#post-69407 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:29:36 +0000 Avic Okinawa 69407@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I'm from Japan. I'm really curious to know that how often Blu-rays are used in videography business around the world. At our company, we're never asked to give the clients Blu-rays of completed projects. Most of the times, our projects are finally output to DVDs. It's not that we are aggressively offering them the Blu-ray versions anyway... Is it only me who thinks the ordinary people care less about High Definition?? I'm sorry for bad English. vid-e-o-man on "Help: AVCHD to DVD to play in BluRay" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-avchd-to-dvd-to-play-in-bluray#post-68692 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:32:59 +0000 vid-e-o-man 68692@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Brian, I use Vegas Movie Studio 9 and this is very easy to do after editing my AVCHD to burn High Defintion to regular DVD which will only play on a Blu ray or a PS 3. Another way to do this is to use Sony's DVD direct Model VRD-MC5 or later. No computer is needed, you just load your files straight from your camcorder into the recorder and it will burn your files to a DVD with in High Definition (AVCHD). If you chose to, you can change the files to regular defintion and burn to DVD to play in a regular DVD player. Canon might also have something along thse lines. I am not familiar with the output connections of the HFS10. I would check to see if it is compatible with the model of recorder that you get. I was able to pick up a used model on ebay at a reasonable price ($75) and I use it to download files off my camcorder for backup and to free up space. It will also transfer your old VHS, Hi 8, digital 8, or whatever other recordings (home movies, etc.) to DVD for back up. It offers some limited menu selection also. Brian on "Help: AVCHD to DVD to play in BluRay" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/help-avchd-to-dvd-to-play-in-bluray#post-68688 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:32:40 +0000 Brian 68688@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I am at witts end here.Â Posting this now because I just cant find the solution after hours searching. I want to burn my AVCHD files (Canon HFS10) to a DVD to watch on a Blu ray player.Â I dont have a BD burner.Â I understand this can be done, but am looking for the most simple method or software to do this.Â Is there there a single program that can do this?Â I tried IMGburn without luck.Â I have found exactly this for Mac, Â <a href="http://www.shedworx.com/revolverhdmac">http://www.shedworx.com/revolverhdmac</a>Â , but I have a PC,Â and Shedworx is not planning to release a PC version.Â Any simple, one stop solution like this for PC?Â Thanks in advance for any input. sonnyboo on "Cat vs. Blu Ray Player" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/cat-vs-blu-ray-player#post-68348 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:07:30 +0000 sonnyboo 68348@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Pretty much. This is what they do.