Charlie's Angels first Blu-ray Disc completed...

[Sean Mota]

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.

Utilizing Blu-ray's unprecedented storage capacity, the Charlie's Angels:
Full Throttle disc features dynamic menus with full resolution graphics and
animation, superior audio and unparalleled picture quality. "We are confident
this achievement will help everyone understand that Blu-ray is real and poised
to enter the marketplace," said Mr. Feingold. "Blu-ray will bring the highest
quality HD experience possible to the home."

"We are extremely proud to deliver on the promise of Blu-ray. This is an
important step for our industry in order to begin mass production of
high-definition movies in the Blu-ray format in the near future," said Don
Eklund, Senior Vice President, Advanced Technologies, Sony Pictures Home
Entertainment.

"Sony Pictures authoring tools, together with our unmatched expertise,
have made the first Blu-ray Disc a reality and we are thrilled to ship this
prototype disc to BD hardware manufacturers for testing," said James Mercs
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Authoring Center, Sony
Pictures Home Entertainment.

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[dturturro]

Of all the movies they have access to and they start with Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle?!

 

[riffjim4069]

I was thinking the same thing. There must be 10,000 better movies that would make more sense than Charlie's Angels.

 

[Sean Mota]

Reason enough for this to make sense HD DVD could hit first and be very inexpensive for consumers

Everyone is looking at this as a negative but it may be positive enought to bring prices down and let the consumer decide where to go with which format. If HD DVD comes out cheap and they start mass producing the HD titles, it can give blue ray a run for their money.