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Makes you wonder.. with the games on there, special features.. it seems Sony will be releasing Blu-ray light movies with more compressed video/audio. It seems weird that HD DVD was not good enough due to it's 30gb discs and now this from Sony.
Hypocritical? You betcha.
Actually Bozster, lots of movies are bigger than 30gb. Blackhawk Down, Bottle Rocket, All 3 Bourne Movies, and Close Encounters are all over 30GB that is just 6 of the movies off of my shelf without going past C. This is true for MPEG2, VC-1, and AVC encoded movies.
On the other hand the Kung Fu Panda movie file size is less than 23GB. And it has 6GB of space available on the disc. I never purchased the movie or the game but if they where to put both on one disk for $35 I might be interested. Cut out a couple of extras from the movie and free up 2 or 3 more GB and stick the game on there.
What game is 2-3 gb? This again goes against the claim that games require full BD for full potential aka MGS4.
Either way it's hypocrisy, unless they include a separate disc with the game in the package.
You will need at least 10gb for a game, add some extras and stuff it's a few GB.. so your movie on BD with a game will have to be 30gb or under. This requires more compression in video and audio streams.
I'm not saying that lower bitrates can't produce great images, I've seen movies that look great and get 5/5 rating with 15mbps encode, I'm just pointing out the whole hypocrisy about HD DVD and Blu-ray. The whole point initially was that 30gb is not sufficient that you MUST have 50gb in order to maximize quality of video and audio and now they are fitting everything on HD DVD size.
Well let's see TDK is 35GB, that leaves 15GB for the game. Considering all of these crappy movie games come out on the 360 also they are all under 8.5GB so there is plenty of room for the movie, game, and some crappy extra features.
Though generally most movies that are turned into games suck, and most games turned into movies suck so it does not really interest me. Not to mention they will still have to come up with a BD version sans game for people without a PS3, so at worst maybe the PS3 movie combo suffers a little on quality but the movie by it self is fine.
The real question is will these play in both a BD player and a PS3?
Bozster, as you should know all too well, games vary in size from 50Mb all the way up to 50Gb. I'm quite sure there are plenty of game / movie combinations that would comfortably fit on a single disk without compromising either. For example, cross platform games don't exceed 8Gb (due to the limitations of DVD) leaving a respectable 42Gb for a movie + features.
I think you guys are missing the point. It's going to affect quality either way.
Dr. Xym, usable size of Blu-ray disc is not 50gb it's 45gb. So add features and a game at 8.5gb you will have to pack a movie at 30gb or so.
They will have to cut corners. I'm just talking about hypocrisy here. They will have to lower the encodes to fit it and I find it really funny to see blu-ray die hards who were purists until this moment defend this as nothing is wrong.
Some of the people were the loudest how these type of things were unacceptable and now defend this.
No Bozster they will not have to cut corners due to the simple fact that not all disks use their full capacity.In the absence of knowing what movies / games are being considered, or the price of the disc you are spouting nonsense like usual.
Your maths is awful too since 45 less 8.5 is not 30. And Blu-Ray has 50Gb of usable space, 50Gb as per the industry definition for storage where 1Gb is 1,000,000,000 bytes. HD DVD also follows the industry definition. But hey, maybe disks only have 45Gb usable from that? Nope, the Godfather II disc uses 48,295,163,904 bytes just for its main feature.
But hey, if you fudge the value into gibibytes (counter to how storage capacity is usually measured) it looks less. So let's pretend it's just 45Gib and ignore that by the same measure HD DVD is 27.9Gib and DVD is 8Gib by the same criteria. Hey presto, another stupid Bozster comparison is born.