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BluFocus Assists Blu-ray Studios with Quality Control
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Posted January 15, 2008 08:32 AM by Josh Dreuth
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A new company, BluFocus, has formed in order to assist movie studios with quality control checks on their Blu-ray releases. Because Blu-ray titles are sophisticated systems of video, audio, and interactive features, testing is needed to ensure that they operate on all available players flawlessly before release.
With expertise in the Blu-ray authoring language BD-Java, the company is able to run the discs through a variety of tests in order to ensure compatibility with the set standards. BluFocus is already working with several movie studios to ensure their releases will operate flawlessly for all consumers.
Thanks goes out to BluClues for submitting the news.
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MacDaddyOJack
Jan 15, 2008
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Sweet, maybe this will lead to less firmware updates. | |
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scook
Jan 15, 2008
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This is good news for everyone | |
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hc666
Jan 15, 2008
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MOONPHASE
Jan 15, 2008
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and now we wont have problems like what happened to independence day blu-ray. thats awesome | |
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Malosch78
Jan 15, 2008
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Nice ... i guess. I have never had problems with my blu-ray movies. | |
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Zazou
Jan 15, 2008
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Cool job, sat watching movies and playing with the interactive features all day! Where do we sign up? | |
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johnnyd1
Jan 15, 2008
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Samsung is probably happy ! | |
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jpacente
Jan 15, 2008
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BluFous, Please use the Samsung BD-P1200 as your base for testing. This player has problems with a lot of movies. | |
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tru blu
Jan 15, 2008
Excellent news indeed. I hope this leads to faster & quality releases from studios like Fox.
May the Blu be with you... | |
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pitriscu
Jan 15, 2008
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I hope they will also do a PICTURE QUALITY control. Found that transfer on some BR discs are the same as SD dvd picture. We are paying premium prices for HD and not to get SD | |
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CptGreedle
Jan 15, 2008
AWESOME.. This will make a lot of happy consumers with no more bugs and errors on new movie
releases!
I can't wait to see all Blu releases run through a thorough quality control so there are no more
complaints. | |
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Sonny
Jan 15, 2008
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This is a very good thing (that should of been done long ago) but better late then never:) | |
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Blu-Runner
Jan 15, 2008
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Dear BluFocus: Disney is doing just fine. Take what they're doing and spread it around to others. | |
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caliminius
Jan 15, 2008
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With all of its recent issues, Warner needs to buy them, not just hire their services. I suppose most were manufacturing issues, but there's no good excuse for the T3 1080i issue. | |
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nycomet
Jan 15, 2008
Whatever happened to THX? I would think this sort of quality control service would be right up their
alley. | |
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ckenisell
Jan 15, 2008
Are you serious? Why aren't the studios doing this to begin with? Do we really need this? All it's going to do is delay some titles.
I'd say, instead of coming up with a company that QA's discs, someone needs to come up with a company that QA's the hardware and firmware updates. Shouldn't all players be using the same Blu-ray specs and, therefore, all Blu-Ray movies should play just fine? My PS3 hasn't blinked at playing any Blu-Ray movies and now titles will be delayed because Samsung can't get their $#!+ together? | |
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Guinness7
Jan 15, 2008
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A nice quality control from an outside source. | |
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bkbluray
Jan 15, 2008
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I definitely like this idea. | |
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Robert Siegel
Jan 15, 2008
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This is a major step forward for the format. Not sure why anyone posting above has complained, this helps the studios work it all out. Very good timing! | |
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saginawjuggalo
Jan 15, 2008
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Thank you, thank you! This is just what Blu-ray needs... Does this mean checking up on PQ as well? I hate paying a premium double dipping on the movies I loved on DVD only to get 10-15% increase over upconverting it.. This gets me a pretty upset when it does happen.. It's doesn't happen very often but it shouldn't to begin with... I guess it wouldn't bother me so much had I never seen the movies before but still... Quality control is a Major Plus! It sure would make me feel better about double dipping on those upcoming catalog titles ;-) | |
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kingofgrills
Jan 15, 2008
This is definitely good news. There have been quite a few Blu-ray releases with sub-par film transfers or audio tracks. It really irks me to get a Blu-ray only to find a crappy film transfer and no lossless audio track. There's no reason a Blu-ray film should look or sound just like an upscaled DVD.
Hopefully this will help ensure that every Blu-ray movie released after the program is implemented has the best video and audio possible. Each Blu-ray film should be required to have a lossless audio track as well as a DTS or DD 5.1 track. | |
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Kairav
Jan 15, 2008
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nice exactly what my friend was saying the other day about the remasteres BDs. | |
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Bambu
Jan 15, 2008
Quality Control is always a good thing...
Is it just me, or does anyone else find that VQ on BRD only marginally exceeds that of DVD? AQ of BRD on the other hand, is much better than most DVD's. The only DVD's (IMO) that are comparable (both AQ and VQ) to BRD are the Superbit DVD's (DTS only and no extras). It's a good thing that the BR format is comparable to DVD in price. Otherwise, I for one, would not purchase anymore BR movies. I am picking up the 'Remastered' Fifth Element on BR tonight. Also have same on Superbit DVD. Will be interesting to see how the 'Remastered' BR version compares!
Until we have 3D TV technology, or Hologram movies (that would be cool huh?), I can't see a vast VQ improvement above and beyond DVD.
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vonzar
Jan 15, 2008
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I have never had a problem with a disc playing, but hopefully this will ensure I never do and that others who have never do again. | |
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sj001
Jan 15, 2008
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Sounds great, hopefully this will cut down on releases that are delayed because of last minute technical issues. | |
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JT_Designer
Jan 15, 2008
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Sounds great! This should save companies the humiliation and money of having to recall a movie due to a flaw. | |
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richard lichtenfelt
Jan 15, 2008
Now if this quality control implementation could also work on websites like this one to destroy the stupid video quality complaints from new members who are obviously trying to discourage people from buying blu-rays.
Blu-ray is light years ahead of sd dvd or I wouldn't have bought 50 of them in the last 5 months. | |
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jbt419
Jan 15, 2008
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Hmmmm. An industry voluntarily monitoring quality control to ensure the fullest of BR's potential to EVERYONE with a BR player. To quote Peter Griffin, "Freakin' sweet!" | |
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coachD
Jan 15, 2008
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I'll add my voice to the folks who support this idea. Testing BR titles on all the systems will make people support the ENTIRE BR system. From the PS3 down to the lowly and firmware delayed Samsung BD-1200. This is a win-win-win deal for the Studios that support Blu-Ray, for the makers of all the Blu-ray systems (Sony, Sharp, & Samsung for example) and for us Blu-ray fans. Now, when I buy a hot BR title, I can feel secure that it will indeed play on my system. | |
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Bambu
Jan 16, 2008
Richard (Special Member)...
I may be a new member of this Site, but I am far from being 'new' to knowing what a 'Quality' video signal is, or 'Quality' in general. And when did you join? 07/02/2007... that's what? Five months ago? Guess that makes you a Site veteran huh?
Let me set things straight here dude. I was not complaining (as you put it), about BR (HD) VQ. BR VQ is awesome! It's just not far removed from that of DVD IMO.
I am using the latest equipment... Sony 52" 1080P Bravia LCD monitor, Sony BDP-S300 Blu-ray player, and a digital cable box suppling HD signal. The best video signal that I have seen so far, is a 'Live' HD feed. 'Live' HD is absolutely stunning!
Don't get me wrong here my man. I'm not putting BR down, I'm just disappointed that there isn't significant VQ improvement between BR and DVD.
Also, please do not distort the truth. I'm not trying to 'discourage' anyone from buying Blu-ray movies. BR is good quality at a decent price. I will continue to purchase BR. I just hope that no one is foolish enough to replace their entire DVD collection with Blu-ray!
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richard lichtenfelt
Jan 16, 2008
This is about compatibility and profile issues. BluFocus isn't going to send a movie back to the studio to be re-transfered or encoded. I thought that was obvious from the article.
You actually came to blu-ray.com and the first post you ever make here states, "Is it just me, or does anyone else find that VQ on BRD only marginally exceeds that of DVD?"
You then go on to say that we might as well be buying Superbit dvds.
Here is a link showing comparison pics of Spiderman 3 on Superbit and Blu-ray. The difference in video quality is marked even in little 400x375 pictures.
http://www.hometheaterspot.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/138940/
Here is another set of pics from Spiderman 3 giving a comparison (2 pages): http://www.zonadvd.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=761
If you said that the vq between blu-ray and hd dvd, or even hd broadcasting are comparable then I wouldn't argue the point. To say that the vq of blu-ray is comparable to dvd IMO is just inane. | |
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