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Posted by Allan on 10/05/70 11:33
Sony Completes First Full-Length Blu-ray Disc
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) president Benjamin S. Feingold
today announced that authoring has been completed on the first Blu-ray
Disc (BD) to contain a full-length, high-definition feature film.
Charlies Angels: Full Throttle was compressed and authored in MPEG 2
full high-definition (1920 x 1080) by Sony Pictures Digital Authoring
Center (DAC) and is now being shipped to BD hardware companies for
player testing.
Utilizing Blu-rays unprecedented storage capacity, the Charlies
Angels: Full Throttle disc features dynamic menus with full resolution
graphics and animation, superior audio and unparalleled picture
quality. We are confident this achievement will help everyone
understand that Blu-ray is real and poised to enter the marketplace,
said Mr. Feingold. Blu-ray will bring the highest quality HD
experience possible to the home.
We are extremely proud to deliver on the promise of Blu-ray. This is
an important step for our industry in order to begin mass production
of high-definition movies in the Blu-ray format in the near future,
said Don Eklund, Senior Vice President, Advanced Technologies, Sony
Pictures Home Entertainment.
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