PHL - Mastering Blu-ray disc explained!

Panasonic Hollywood Labs (PHL) are one of the premier Blu-ray authoring houses in Hollywood with many award winning discs to their name, such as i,Robot. Here the team explain the process of taking the master and transferring that to Blu-ray. PHL are also one of the leaders in 3D Blu-ray authoring having set the standards for the industry to follow.

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Science & Technology

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• about:Panasonic
• hollywood
• labs
• blu-ray
• film
• transfer

[PeloMR2]

Interesting video. Please use a tripod next time!

[stryker7x]

interesting how they go trough so much trouble to get the best picture after all the compression yet the Blu Ray release of Gladiator was done very poorly. They need to redo the Gladiator Blu Ray and re-release it.

[lghaze42]

it;s just that you would'nt expect a GM manager to be driving a Ford so You would'nt expect Panasonic to be using Sony products .Panasonic makes BD players and recorders can't see why they need another brands equipment.

[Geolink2349]

@lghaze42 Well Blu-rays are Sony product.

[WTFDanger]

Ponyo!!!

[emptysatisfaction]

@stinkey1217: Uncompressed video would take up an incredible amount of space at HD resolutions and you would need insanely fast equipment to handle a bit rate that wouldn't make for choppy video.

[lghaze42]

Why all the Sony equipment?Panasonic makes about any component that should be needed.Very strange

[EmpireLS56KW]

What these sly studios do is take the digital master of such and such title produced a few years back for DVD and slyly give it new silly menus and, you get the idea because otherwise I wouldnt be seeing the same poor colour balance on Terminator 2 and 3. Green like smug appears around bright whites when there is blue colour background! You can few the scene where the terminator arrives in T3 youll see green all around the white arc light effects and that is not on the 35mm I promise you that!

[EmpireLS56KW]

Also for those who dont listen to BLURAY! There are a few titles that have fake stereo surrounds and folded stereo centre front phantom on top of the discrete centre channel!

"Blue Thunder" 1984

"2010 the year we make contact" 1984

Never ever sale the DVD or least the first edition DVD for the sakes of Bluray!

I was gutted when I heard this and bluray is by no means a perfect format!

The more things change. The more they stay the same.

Now then!

[EmpireLS56KW]

@vorpalproductions

That is why I havent touched Gladiator on Bluray I have the region 2 DVD and that is just sickening to watch. I saw the film twice at the local Bournemouth Odeon and once at the Empire Leicester Square. I can see the grain in the film and that should be on the bluray if this so called format is to show-off then the grain or the image look shouldnt be an issue. EE and DNR is should be banned from being used on DVD/bluray it ruins the look of the film!

[EmpireLS56KW]

No grain and grain is inherent on film you idiot! sigh! This is way cinema beats Bluray standing on its head! The colours are right LMAO! Terminator2/3 have poor colour balance that wouldnt even be seen in the cinema! Ive only seen but just a few that mirror the look a few! And a few is just not good enough with this format! My high expectations for bluray was 100% last year now it stands at 40% due to poor Blurays, NOW THEN! Wow that was just unbelievably boring!

[vorpalproductions]

It wasn't the compression that was bad on Gladiator, it was the poor ass master used as the source for encoding. You can't encode beautiful video for Blu-ray if the source is garbage.

I'd love to get my hands on that Panasonic encoder.