Question about the capacity of the bluray disc and how that relates to the Star Wars movies, ie what could fit on each disc, how is that material divide up between discs. (this is tangential to Zombie's Letter writing campaign, didn't want to muck up his thread just yet)
Starting with the wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc
These discs are either minimum 50gb but are upto 100gb versions.
A. is this 100gb version compatable with older bluray players? and is the 100gb currently being used for retail movies or is it more of a data disc?
B. If the 100gb is a retail movie format, how much video at high or very high quality would it hold. The idea being could it house 2 full length versions of ANH plus the SE scenes?
According to: http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#bluray_capacity_video
Now since everyone is a stickler for quality, if they went with a very high bit rate, would this half the time, so 4.5 hours? Is that a good assessment? That would be enough for what ever version George wants in full, the Theatrical (same quality) full, and the SE revised scenes, the score 35mm & 70mm, and a bunch of other variations. So 6 disc of just movies, no commentaries, no cut-scenes etc. An expanded set (announced before releasing this set) would compensate by including Documentaries, and other video material.
Or would it satisfy everyone if the OT theatrical was on a separate disc. Three movies on one disc, or is this pushing the quality level?
How would everyone divide the material they want over 'x' number of discs. I would expect that in all versions there's an easy way to purchase just the movies, since that's going to be their dominant sale. But maybe there's an argument against that.