{"id":283,"date":"2006-06-21T23:15:06","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T06:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=283"},"modified":"2006-06-21T23:16:22","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T06:16:22","slug":"son-of-early-adopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/son-of-early-adopter\/","title":{"rendered":"Son Of Early Adopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pursuant to my <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/early-adopter\/\">senseless HD DVD purchase<\/a> a few months ago, fairness demands that I give equal time to Blu-Ray now that the discs are out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/fifth-element-blu-ray.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/fifth-element-blu-ray-small.jpg\" alt=\"Fifth Element Blu-Ray Package\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Click for larger image<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; even though <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/news\/sb\/2006-06-21\/#2\">you may have heard<\/a> that the players aren&#8217;t available yet. Best Buy told me that the Sunday is the official day to start selling the Samsung player (no Sony in sight), though some Best Buy stores allegedly <em>accidentally<\/em> sold some prematurely.<\/p>\n<p>The box copy touts 1920&#215;1080 progressive scan video. Subtitles come in 7 varieties including English, English SDH (what&#8217;s that?), and Thai. The audio is listed as English 5.1 (uncompressed), English 5.1, and French 5.1. Presumably, the latter 2 options are compressed. The package sports the Dolby Digital logo. How is 5.1 audio stored uncompressed on these discs? If each channel were allocated 48 KHz, 16 bits\/sample, that would require ~8.7 GB of the 23 GB disc for this 126-minute feature.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, for those who want to look for hidden messages in the literature accompanying the disc, see below (click any picture for a larger image).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/blu-ray-disc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/blu-ray-disc-small.jpg\" alt=\"Blu-Ray disc\" \/><br \/>\nThe actual Blu-Ray disc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/cover-outside.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/cover-outside-small.jpg\" alt=\"Jewel case cover (outside)\" \/><br \/>\nJewel case cover (outside)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/cover-inside.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/cover-inside-small.jpg\" alt=\"Jewel case cover (inside)\" \/><br \/>\nJewel case cover (inside) &#8212; the jewel case is a transluscent blue which allows for extra artwork on the flipside of the jewel case cover<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/inside-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/inside-1-small.jpg\" alt=\"Inside literature\" \/><br \/>\nInside literature<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/inside-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/inside-2-small.jpg\" alt=\"Inside literature\" \/><br \/>\nInside literature (continued from last image; scanner not that big)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/inside-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/inside-3-small.jpg\" alt=\"Inside literature\" \/><br \/>\nInside literature<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/inside-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/blu-ray\/inside-4-small.jpg\" alt=\"Inside literature\" \/><br \/>\nInside literature<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blu Ray rears its head&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}