[mythtv-users] Anyone archiving to Blu-Ray Disks?

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Thu Jul 8 19:46:38 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:13:20AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Thursday, July 08, 2010 10:07:41 am jedi wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 08:42:57AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> > > On Thursday, July 08, 2010 08:28:46 am jedi wrote:
> > > >    Consider that a disk might not need to look like a consumer BD title
> > > >    in
> > > > 
> > > > order to be playable on a BR player.
> > > > 
> > > >    Just a thought...
> > > 
> > > Since a commercial BR player can also play DVDs, I wondered if it could
> > > play a DVD file or directory from a BR disk, thus letting you have
> > > multiple DVD resolution files on a single disk.
> > 
> > ...or perhaps a 50G DVD.
> > 
> > Imagine it as the sort of "all of the Star Trek movies on one DVD" sort of
> > collection that you were hoping for when you first heard of BluRay but you
> > knew they would never deliver.
> 
> They may well deliver it, with a price tag of $100 plus, adding enough junk "bonus content" to claim it as a new product 
> of some sort, and con consumers into actually buying it.

   Well, they do have collections. They just aren't on one disk is all.

   They just find new ways to take up space on a disk. They don't use that
space to find interesting ways to add convenience. It sounds like DVD audio
worked out the same way.


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