Will LBT ever go HD-DVD and Blu-Ray?

[pokeplayer984]

With so many jumping onto the bandwagon of HD-DVD and Blu-ray, I'm wondering if LBT will be doing the same?

Maybe they'll do this for the 20th anniversary edition that's bound to come out sometime later this year?

What do you guys think?

[Kor]

It depends partially if there would be any benefit from putting it on hd or blue ray.  It's like with the classic dr who series, someone asked the same there and one of the restoration team said not anytime soon since the classic series would not benefit any since they have no hd quality material.  So I guess it depends on if there is any hd quality material for LBT, or if they will put it on hd anyway so they can get say 3 movies onto one disk instead of 2.

[Petrie.]

Considering Universal can't seem to decide on which camp (Blu-Ray or HDDVD) to go with, I don't think they'll release anything until they choose one or the other.  I for one see no reason why they would release these to a hi-def format due to the cost of production at the current time.  Most 2-D only films have very little to gain by going hi-def.

[steetboris]

Considering Universal can't seem to decide on which camp (Blu-Ray or HDDVD) to go with

They have, they've always been exclusive to the HD DVD format. But I doubt they wouldn't switch to Blu-ray if this one becomes the major format for high def.

Anyway, I really doubt Universal would release their animated films in high def format before a VERY long time. (not before 4 or 5 years, I think) It's a niche market, for now the "family" target doesn't really know what high definition means and doesn't care much. The animated films were the latest ones to switch to the DVD format...
There's even an animated film they never released on DVD... (We're back : a dinosaur's story)
And for all the others (An american tail, Balto, Land before time and their sequels), they released cheap DVDs with no real extras on it, which were not really more than just VHS versions ported to DVDs. So no, I really don't think the HD DVD formats are their main focus.

[LBTFan13]

As much as it would be a good idea, I think others would consider it copying off of Disney, since they are re-releasing all their classic movies on Aniversary Edition DVD's.

[landbeforetimelover]

I can personally see no advantage to blu-ray, seeing as you need the best TV on the market for it to make any difference.  I will not be getting blu-ray until they have less expensive players for computers.

[lbt/cty_lover]

Blu-ray has one huge advantage over HD DVD. 50 GB for dual layer on blu-ray. 30 GB on TRIPLE layer for HD DVD. As for advantages of hi-def, a huge amount of special features.

[action9000]

Blu-ray has one huge advantage over HD DVD. 50 GB for dual layer on blu-ray. 30 GB on TRIPLE layer for HD DVD.

My reason for being a Blu-ray fan. B)

LBT on High Def...Sure, I'd like to see it happen.  I'm kind of a techie fan and the concept of LBT in high def is generally interesting and cool to me.
Aside from that though, it also demonstrates that LBT may not be *completely* dead...we shall see.

[landbeforetimelover]

Blu rays are great, but I'll never use them for movies. I liked the switch from VHS to DVD so much because there were no more huge freaking tapes that get jammed up and crap and you could put it onto the computer.  Now, I'm just fine with DVD, and personally, I don't want to find a way to decode a blu ray movie.

[Petrie.]

How many of you actually WATCH the special features more than once?  I can only name maybe four films I have where I actually have done that.

[landbeforetimelover]

Who even watches the special features?   I certainly don't.  I mean, mostly they're boring talks about how actors feel on stage, or in the case of cooler movies, they just ruin the movie by showing you how they do everything. : I don't ever watch special features.  I've got better stuff to do.

[Manny Cav]

Blu rays are great, but I'll never use them for movies. I liked the switch from VHS to DVD so much because there were no more huge freaking tapes that get jammed up and crap and you could put it onto the computer.  Now, I'm just fine with DVD, and personally, I don't want to find a way to decode a blu ray movie.

Wait, I thought you said somewhere that you was secretly a VHS junkie.

[pokeplayer984]

I just got done converting the LBT Sing Along Songs DVD I got, and found the amount of space they used for certian scenes to be higher than ever.

Normally, I've only had to deal with 10 MB or lower.  After converting everything properally with the help of #1 DVD Ripper and Windows Movie Maker, (I seriously need to upgrade on the latter.) I was a little surprised by the amount of space they used.

When You're Big and Kids Like Us are a bit above 13 MB.

Standing Tough is at about 15 MB.

Finally, the Sing Along Music Video of If We Hold On Together is 28.5 MB.

If them taking up so much space within just under 5 minutes keeps up, LBT is definately going to have to go at least HD-DVD within a few years.

For now, we may not have to worry about this, but it seems they will eventually have to, regardless.

[action9000]

When You're Big and Kids Like Us are a bit above 13 MB.

Standing Tough is at about 15 MB.

Finally, the Sing Along Music Video of If We Hold On Together is 28.5 MB.

If We Hold On Together: 3:54 - 28.5MB
Kids Like Us: 1:57 - 13MB
Standing Tough: 2:06 - 15MB
When You're Big: 1:53 - 13MB

Total time: about 10 minutes
Total Size: 69.5MB

At that quality, 100 minutes will be 695MB, or about the capacity of a normal CD.
400 (6 hours and 40 minutes) minutes is still only 2.8GB or so, which is half of of the capacity of a DVD.  A DVD can hold 4.6GB worth of data.

I don't think there is an absolute necessessity for HD-DVD / Blu-Ray anytime, soon...as interesting as LBT on Blu-Ray could potentially be.

[Petrie.]

Poke, those are compressed...big time.  Uncompressed .avi at around 4 minutes is 120mb.  Quite a difference there.  Still easy to fit all on a cd, and dvd.  Realistically, even dvds are compressed, and so will be Blu-ray or HD-DVD.  Its not to impossible to get lossless video to fit.

[Kor]

The only way they may put them on either blue ray or hd-dvd is if they decicded to do 3 movies per disk, or just re issue the 2 movies per disk but in the new format, but no other extras or increase in quality.

[lbt/cty_lover]

The fact is that, going by your data action, they would need about 10 times as much data to fill a single-layer blu-ray disc. and about 4 times as much to fill a single-layer HD DVD disc.

[Petrie.]

Uncompressed video could easily fill up those things....then you truly have high def stuff.

[LBTDiclonius]

Maybe it will for the anniversary but it's so old. No one really cares for it anymore (except everyone on here ) And most kids today like newer stuff, like all those new better animated cartoons we have now. In fact 1, 2 and 3 are so old I can't find them anywhere now. The stores probably have every sequal besides these two, and the origanal. Not that I need the first one. In fact, I have two copies on VHS!

[landbeforetimelover]

Wait, I thought you said somewhere that you was secretly a VHS junkie.

Um, sorry for the REALLY late response. But there are some things I preferred with VHS over DVD.  For example, how about being able to take the video out and still be at the same place when you pop it back in?  This feature could have been easily added to DVD players.  It must have cost an extra $0.02 to do it and that's why they didn't. : But now, I don't like any sort of disk or archaic storage medium.  I just have the stuff stored on the computer in FULL DVD quality.  There's no reason for me to even keep the disks anymore.  In fact, the only DVD's that are still in my house are the LBT ones.  I keep them for more sentimental reasons.