Anybody making Bluray discs?

Laurence wrote on 6/24/2007, 10:01 PM

I know a couple of us are having great luck making cheap 30 cent red laser HD DVD discs.

On the other hand, Bluray seems to be more successful as a format. Is anyone experienced making Bluray discs that might impart their knowledge on how to make the most of this format.

I have Roxio's DVDit Pro HD software. What burner is best right now? Has anyone found a good deal on printable blanks? Does anyone have customers willing to pay enough money to make burning Bluray discs worthwhile?

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tnw2933 wrote on 6/25/2007, 9:48 AM

Laurence,

About two months ago I purchased the Lacie d2 Blu-ray drive and I have used DVDit Pro HD to prepare several 25 GB single-layer Blu-ray disks that play back perfectly on my Sony BDP-S1 player running the latest 2.0 version firmware. I also created a 50 GB dual layer disk using DVDit Pro HD to author the disk and Nero Ultimate 7 to burn the disk to a 50 GB Blu-ray disk. This disk will play in my Sony BDP-S1 but after a period of time I start to get freezes of the image. I found that this problem was probably do to the 25000 bit rate that I was using on the dual layer disk. I tried lowering the bit rate to 18,000 and the resulting dual layer Blu-ray disk played fine.

I have also used Ulead's Movie Factory 6+ to create Blu-ray disks on red laser single and dual layer disks. Again I author the disk in MF6+ and then burn in Nero Ultimate 7. As long as I keep the bit rate at about 18,000 both the single and dual layer RL Blu-ray disks play fine in my BDP-S1. At higher bit rates, I get periodic freezing of the video. I should add that I view my Blu-ray disk using a Sony VPL-VW100 projector on a 96 in. diagonal StudioTek 1.3 screen. The image produced by this projector is truly splendid! Finally, I cannot see any real difference in image quality on this system between the RL Blu-ray disks created at 18,000 bit rate and the real Blu-ray disks created at bit rates as high as 30,000 or more.

Tom