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Posted by Derek Janssen on 11/22/05 06:07
Alpha wrote:
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>>>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.
>>>Charlie's 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.
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> I find it entirely appropriate that the first film they chose is so
> appalling as to be hilarious.
No, it's a combination of those two time-honored New Format strategies,
which traditionally result in goofy failed hi-profile action movies to
be the first new titles out of the studio gates:
1) The Early Days of DVD strategy ("Quick, dump 'Twister' and 'Lost in
Space' onto the market; maybe we'll finally make some money off of them
from the home-speaker nuts!")
and
2) the Superbit/UMD strategy ("Hey, anybody THAT geeked for a new gadget
probably only watches Matrix sequels!")
Derek Janssen (however, if CA2 *was* the movie I clicked across on cable
last night, yep, it's a stinker)
djanss@charter.net
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