WDW on Blu-Ray

[Ti-doubleguh-ur]

During the Christmas season my family got a huge HDTV and a Bluray disc player. Does anyone know of any WDW bluray disks? Any plans for some?

I would love to visit WDW in HD!!

 

[Monty]

So far I've only seen DVDs.

 

[Mrs.PhD]

We just got a new blue ray too, it is fun to wacth thing on it. I don't know if they have anything on it, and I doubt they will make any.

However the Christmas parade in HD was very nice! It almost felt like being there (but with no crowds or strange family trying to push their kids in front of you at the last min when you have been sitting there for an hour waiting.) :brick:

 

[LoriMistress]

Sleeping Beauty and Wall-E is on Blu Ray. There might be a few other Pixar Blu Ray.

 

[Monty]

Sleeping Beauty and Wall-E is on Blu Ray. There might be a few other Pixar Blu Ray.

I think the question was WDW Park Blu-Ray, not movies.

 

[TheDisneyMagic]

Nothing official related to the parks has been released on Blu-Ray disc, but you can download user created videos in HD, burn them to disc and play them.

 

[djpoore94]

Nothing official related to the parks has been released on Blu-Ray disc, but you can download user created videos in HD, burn them to disc and play them.

Too get those on a true Blue Ray disc could be expensive though. Good quality Blue Ray disc burners are still in the $200 to $300 range and the recordable (not rewritable) discs are usually anywhere from $10 - $15 EACH!!

 

[ClemsonTigger]

I think the best you can do for now is to enjoy the upconvert.

 

[Astro_Digital]

All releases going forward are going to be on Blu-Ray as well as DVD.

I can I do watch upconverted DVDs but there is no way way the quality is anywhere as good as Blu-Ray.

Many people without a sense of reality tell us that one day we will download HD content maybe but several things have to happen.

1) Down load speed needs to increase by magnitudes, I purchased a few Non HD movies from iTunes and it took me a good 30 minutes for a download !!! HD content which will be much bigger would take what a few hours? There is no way I will wait for a movie for a few hours.

2) The current ISPs, non of them have true unlimited download quotas. One or two HD movies a month will fill that quota fast.

3) When I buy a Disney film I want to watch it over and over again not rent it once. So I want my perminant Blu-Ray disk.

Like already mentioned pretty much all the Pixar films, Sleeping Beuty, Wall-E are on Blu-Ray. It is worth paying an extra $5 to buy a Blu-Ray over a DVD.

 

[kingtrmpt]

All releases going forward are going to be on Blu-Ray as well as DVD.

I can I do watch upconverted DVDs but there is no way way the quality is anywhere as good as Blu-Ray.

Many people without a sense of reality tell us that one day we will download HD content maybe but several things have to happen.

1) Down load speed needs to increase by magnitudes, I purchased a few Non HD movies from iTunes and it took me a good 30 minutes for a download !!! HD content which will be much bigger would take what a few hours? There is no way I will wait for a movie for a few hours.

2) The current ISPs, non of them have true unlimited download quotas. One or two HD movies a month will fill that quota fast.

3) When I buy a Disney film I want to watch it over and over again not rent it once. So I want my perminant Blu-Ray disk.

Like already mentioned pretty much all the Pixar films, Sleeping Beuty, Wall-E are on Blu-Ray. It is worth paying an extra $5 to buy a Blu-Ray over a DVD.

I agree that upconverted DVDs are nice but not in the same league as blu-ray discs. I think the reason is the video being encoded in mpeg-2 and the lower native resolution. Maybe it is just my tv, but I get a decent amount of video noise from DVDs. As for downloading HD Content it is certainly possible but as you mentioned there are some problems. I believe that these movies are meant to be played on hard or solid state disk based networked DVRs or similar.

There are connections available at least in my area (Phoenix, AZ) of up to 20 Mb/S which would allow for a 4 GB HD movie to be downloaded in about 32 minutes. Remember that you can begin watching the movie only a few minutes after the download begins. You have a fair point though; there needs to be wide-spread investment in infrastructure by communications companies in order for high bandwidth connections to be widely available at an affordable rate.

I use in Phoenix, AZ and as of yet there is no quota on my bandwidth usage (knock on wood), however I have heard that they are testing the waters with this idea. If this were to come to fruition or already exists in a market it could certainly make it near impossible to download HD content with any regularity. In my opinion these fees and quotas are a result of bad management in communications by ignoring the exponential increase in bandwidth demand.

Depending on the type of download you may be able to store the file on the DVR and watch the movie at your leisure like any physical disk. I would imagine that an option could exist for temporary licensing that would be like renting the video for a certain time. The main problem here is that you are limited to one tv or perhaps your home network but you cannot take it out of you home easily. Perhaps with further acceptance of Blu-Ray burners in home computers it would be easier to make a copy of your movie. However, with Digital Media Rights Management being so gung-ho I would not expect it.

I also agree that paying the extra for Blu-Ray is worth it. I got the Wall-E blu-ray for Christmas and was blown away by it. The trip across space in HD had me breathless! Also for audiophiles, Blu-Ray disks allow for the space to use lossless audio codecs and 7.1 surround sound.