And that's what they need to do to really get BR to catch on, package a standard DVD with it, especially for these Disney movies, and lower the hardware priceds already.
Yep, including a DVD version is pretty much the only way I can see Disney Blu-ray releases work. The audience for Disney movies like Sleeping Beauty are children. I don't see many parents giving over their home theater every time their children want to watch it.
Which again raises the question of why the BDA hasn't adopted a combo format disk yet. It can't be hard: there were two entirely different HD DVD combo formats, and at least one of them - the "one side DVD, other side HD" type - ought to be transferable to Blu-ray without any issues.
Cost, that's why. It's just cheaper to throw in a DVD than to start developing this whole combo format. Look how well that went for HD DVD... Besides, I prefer studios utilize BD's capacity for pristine transfers than having a DVD version pressed on the same disc.
DN: It really isn't going to cost any more to make a combination disk - indeed, it should save some money on materials and packing.
Regarding your second comment, I'm not sure you understand how a combo disk works. There is no reduction in quality, a combo disk is (in terms of the flip disks most HD DVD combos were shipped as) a complete HD disk and complete DVD disk glued back-to-back. A Blu-ray combo disk would have the same 50G capacity a regular Blu-ray disk would have, it's just on the other side it'd have a 8.5Gb DVD disk too.
You're right, thanks for clarifying. So quality doesn't suffer, but the cost is still there. You have to have special discs and replication machines made specifically for these combo discs. I can guarantee those ain't gonna be cheap.
I can certainly see this viable should BD take off, but they have to go over some hurdles first.
I would be very surprised if it costs that much. The major issue, I suspect, is that BD duplicators are probably not set up to do this. But it's extremely common to find double-sided DVDs, and I doubt there's much difference between a BD press and a DVD press, so in the end...
The bottom line is it would make enormous sense for the BDA to endorse a combo format, and I doubt the cost of building plant that presses combo disks is significantly higher than regular BD disks, especially for any company that already has DVD presses. It would certainly help make Blu-ray a viable format if people could play BD disks in their DVD equipment as well as their Blu-ray equipment. In terms of what Disney's doing, I think their solution is the only way forward - I seriously doubt a Disney film aimed exclusively at children would ever sell well if it could only be played on Blu-ray systems.
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And that's what they need to do to really get BR to catch on, package a standard DVD with it, especially for these Disney movies, and lower the hardware priceds already.
Yep, including a DVD version is pretty much the only way I can see Disney Blu-ray releases work. The audience for Disney movies like Sleeping Beauty are children. I don't see many parents giving over their home theater every time their children want to watch it.
Which again raises the question of why the BDA hasn't adopted a combo format disk yet. It can't be hard: there were two entirely different HD DVD combo formats, and at least one of them - the "one side DVD, other side HD" type - ought to be transferable to Blu-ray without any issues.
@ squiggle.
Cost, that's why. It's just cheaper to throw in a DVD than to start developing this whole combo format. Look how well that went for HD DVD... Besides, I prefer studios utilize BD's capacity for pristine transfers than having a DVD version pressed on the same disc.
DN: It really isn't going to cost any more to make a combination disk - indeed, it should save some money on materials and packing.
Regarding your second comment, I'm not sure you understand how a combo disk works. There is no reduction in quality, a combo disk is (in terms of the flip disks most HD DVD combos were shipped as) a complete HD disk and complete DVD disk glued back-to-back. A Blu-ray combo disk would have the same 50G capacity a regular Blu-ray disk would have, it's just on the other side it'd have a 8.5Gb DVD disk too.
@ squiggle:
You're right, thanks for clarifying. So quality doesn't suffer, but the cost is still there. You have to have special discs and replication machines made specifically for these combo discs. I can guarantee those ain't gonna be cheap.
I can certainly see this viable should BD take off, but they have to go over some hurdles first.
I would be very surprised if it costs that much. The major issue, I suspect, is that BD duplicators are probably not set up to do this. But it's extremely common to find double-sided DVDs, and I doubt there's much difference between a BD press and a DVD press, so in the end...
The bottom line is it would make enormous sense for the BDA to endorse a combo format, and I doubt the cost of building plant that presses combo disks is significantly higher than regular BD disks, especially for any company that already has DVD presses. It would certainly help make Blu-ray a viable format if people could play BD disks in their DVD equipment as well as their Blu-ray equipment. In terms of what Disney's doing, I think their solution is the only way forward - I seriously doubt a Disney film aimed exclusively at children would ever sell well if it could only be played on Blu-ray systems.