Apple is just being reluctant because they probably want users to use iTunes for watching movies and such.
Most titles I buy for $15, and I have about 50 Blu-rays.Īgain, Blu-ray is booming, successful, and here to stay. In-fact, I've never had to spend over $19.99 at for any NEW title. Players are also like $99 now, and BD titles are falling in price big time. It should be quite obvious with it's many titles. You can get PCs and laptops with blu-ray drives.īlu-ray is here to stay. What more would Blu-ray have to do? When I go to the electronics store, there's huge blu-ray section. Since there is no alternative, and since a lot of people seem to be (at least to me) implementing blu-ray, Apple should get on board and stop being stubborn. I don't want to rent everything over the net and given how fucking hard it is to backup 10's of terabytes of data I don't want to lose all my movies because my raid lost two drives at once. I know blu-ray sucks to develop for, but what is the alternative? And yes there needs to be a physical product.
On my HDTV, Blu-ray playback is vastly superior than anything else I feed it, whether it's netflix on demand, or digital cable or whatever. If you do need Blu-ray support, I highly recommend looking at Adobe Encore, even for regular DVDs, I prefer it to DVD Studio Pro. unless another standard-def only thing gets released.Blu-ray still isn't guaranteed yet, it might be another laser-disc.Īpple is making quite a bit off of downloads, and honestly, im sick of crappy optical media systems, so as far as im concerned, Blu-ray can DIAF. I'm guessing this will prove to be the last DVD I ever buy. So it was a surprise to me that an edited-down package did come out in 2013 from Shout Factory, and I just got it this week. I worked on a special for producer John Moffitt in the 1990s and asked him why Fridays never got reissued on home video, and he felt that a) the cast would want too much money, b) Larry David had made about a million times more money than all of them combined and he was not fond of the show, and c) the rampant drug humor was way too edgy for modern sensibilities. I just picked up the boxed set of Best of Fridays (the obscure ABC sketch comedy show), because I only recently found out that it was released. Actually, I take that back: there are a handful of shows shot in standard-def that I went ahead and bought on DVD. Yes, the moment Blu-rays came out was the day I stopped buying DVDs. (I'm reminded of sound engineers who will bring out a vintage album or 45RPM single when they remaster a tape for CD release.) That way, I can always say, "well, I changed it a little bit but it's in the ballpark of what was done before, only now much sharper and with more consistent color." We also try to let people see a skosh more image area, maybe 1/4" or so on all sides if possible, to avoid cutting off any important images.
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Blu-Ray disc uses Java for its menus, I have no idea how to make BD menus and I've never touched the software you use to make it.Ĭlick to expand.We thank you for your support! We kill ourselves in post to make old movies and shows on Blu-ray look as good as they possibly can, and technicians like myself frequently will refer to the original standard-def release just to get a sense of what people saw back in the day.
The buttons were limited in what they could look like but you could still do some interesting stuff if you were creative. All you had to do is create a looping video and then place overlay buttons on them. During the hight of DVD, you had DVD Studio Pro from Apple and Adobe made something which he mentioned in the video. For Blu-ray, the only thing out there apart from basic templates for burning software is stuff on the level of Sonic Scenarist which costs 10s of thousands of dollars. I think the reason DVDs have more creative menus is just because the way you make DVD menus is a lot simpler and the software for development is more accessible even if it's all discontinued. And there are plenty of DVD releases which have all the same packaging quirks that Blu-ray releases sometimes have. He showed his copy of an Indiana Jones box set, my Indiana Jones box set isn't like his, instead of sleeves, it has the more traditional spindles. Some of the stuff he complained about is neither exclusive to the blu-ray format nor is it true of all blu-ray.