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I had to look it up. I won't post a link here but the file appears to be 38.06 GiB!

cornstalks 10y ago
Which the article mentions: ...due to its 40GB+ size. and is visible in the screenshot: https://torrentfreak.com/images/hateful.png https://torrentfreak.com/images/hateful.png
voltagex_ 10y ago
Interestingly, that's less than a 50GB Blu-Ray, so tell me, why did we need a different disc format for UHD Blu-Ray?
- wmf 10y ago
  Because Hollywood has higher quality standards than pirates?
  - aorth 10y ago
    The article links to the leak, where there are 4K screenshots of the leaked (DCP) version and the Blu-ray version, and the leaked version looks much nicer. :)
  - SSLy 10y ago
    Tell that to the pirate encoders who had to deband movies because the official releases were so bad.
    - mappu 10y ago
      In the early/mid 2000s there was a whole scene around manually applying inverse telecine to badly produced commercial anime releases, with custom tools like YATTA.
      - sjwright 10y ago
        Don't get me started about pre-widescreen episodes of Family Guy. I don't know how they ruined them, but they're all ruined with horrible, burned-in interlacing artefacts.
  - intoverflow2 10y ago
    This is just false, passionate fans are absolutely going to have higher quality standards than some hollywood executives. Even just glancing around the more specific private piracy sites you can see far more love and care placed on releases than most commercial releases.
- mappu 10y ago
  And a YIFY 1080p release is less than a 4.5GB DVD, why did we need a different disc format for regular Blu-Ray? A VCD release fits on a 700MB CD, why did we need a different disc format for DVD? You can make video files come out any size you like - even 1 MB - if you're willing to make the tradeoffs (on both quality and time-to-encode dimensions). There's also a limited amount of hardware you can put into a set-top player while keeping a consumer-friendly price point.
  - voltagex_ 10y ago
    You could still sell the set-top player (which aren't really at a "low" price point) with H.265 as the codec on the current-gen Blu-Ray disc - reducing manufacturing costs.
    - mappu 10y ago
      Normally those kind of decisions are optimized by free market competition. It doesn't seem to have kicked-in in this case, probably due to the elephants in the room (piracy and streaming) having zero capex cost.
  - djsumdog 10y ago
    Hence the HD-DVD which packed the 1080p and 720p videos onto the older media standard.
    - mappu 10y ago
      HD-DVD was a separate type of physical disk. It could store more data than DVD but less than Bluray.
- JimmyAustin 10y ago
  I suspect that the Hateful Eight compresses considerably better then most movies due to the amount of time outside in the endless snow. If it compresses 20% better then a movie of a similar length (like one of the LOTR), one of those movies could go over the 50GB size.
- chungy 10y ago
  UHD Blu-ray doesn't introduce new disc formats, but compatibility with the variant does require support for 3- and 4-layer discs (2-layer, 50GB, discs are also still supported for UHD). These aren't new for UHD, but they were introduced after the regular 1080p standards were set--nothing really stops a 1080p movie from using them too, except compatibility with very old players. Still, as other commenters note, these large disc sizes accommodate for high quality. If we have a 100GB disc format, and you want the 4K video to appear in the best possible quality, you will choose some encoding options that fill up most of that 100GB disc, minus whatever the special features and audio tracks cost. Most consumers won't care about the size: it's on a disc, they're not ripping it to a hard drive of their own.
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Which the article mentions: ...due to its 40GB+ size. and is visible in the screenshot: https://torrentfreak.com/images/hateful.png https://torrentfreak.com/images/hateful.png

voltagex_ 10y ago

Interestingly, that's less than a 50GB Blu-Ray, so tell me, why did we need a different disc format for UHD Blu-Ray?

wmf 10y ago
Because Hollywood has higher quality standards than pirates?
- aorth 10y ago
  The article links to the leak, where there are 4K screenshots of the leaked (DCP) version and the Blu-ray version, and the leaked version looks much nicer. :)
- SSLy 10y ago
  Tell that to the pirate encoders who had to deband movies because the official releases were so bad.
  - mappu 10y ago
    In the early/mid 2000s there was a whole scene around manually applying inverse telecine to badly produced commercial anime releases, with custom tools like YATTA.
    - sjwright 10y ago
      Don't get me started about pre-widescreen episodes of Family Guy. I don't know how they ruined them, but they're all ruined with horrible, burned-in interlacing artefacts.
- intoverflow2 10y ago
  This is just false, passionate fans are absolutely going to have higher quality standards than some hollywood executives. Even just glancing around the more specific private piracy sites you can see far more love and care placed on releases than most commercial releases.
mappu 10y ago
And a YIFY 1080p release is less than a 4.5GB DVD, why did we need a different disc format for regular Blu-Ray? A VCD release fits on a 700MB CD, why did we need a different disc format for DVD? You can make video files come out any size you like - even 1 MB - if you're willing to make the tradeoffs (on both quality and time-to-encode dimensions). There's also a limited amount of hardware you can put into a set-top player while keeping a consumer-friendly price point.
- voltagex_ 10y ago
  You could still sell the set-top player (which aren't really at a "low" price point) with H.265 as the codec on the current-gen Blu-Ray disc - reducing manufacturing costs.
  - mappu 10y ago
    Normally those kind of decisions are optimized by free market competition. It doesn't seem to have kicked-in in this case, probably due to the elephants in the room (piracy and streaming) having zero capex cost.
- djsumdog 10y ago
  Hence the HD-DVD which packed the 1080p and 720p videos onto the older media standard.
  - mappu 10y ago
    HD-DVD was a separate type of physical disk. It could store more data than DVD but less than Bluray.
JimmyAustin 10y ago
I suspect that the Hateful Eight compresses considerably better then most movies due to the amount of time outside in the endless snow. If it compresses 20% better then a movie of a similar length (like one of the LOTR), one of those movies could go over the 50GB size.
chungy 10y ago
UHD Blu-ray doesn't introduce new disc formats, but compatibility with the variant does require support for 3- and 4-layer discs (2-layer, 50GB, discs are also still supported for UHD). These aren't new for UHD, but they were introduced after the regular 1080p standards were set--nothing really stops a 1080p movie from using them too, except compatibility with very old players. Still, as other commenters note, these large disc sizes accommodate for high quality. If we have a 100GB disc format, and you want the 4K video to appear in the best possible quality, you will choose some encoding options that fill up most of that 100GB disc, minus whatever the special features and audio tracks cost. Most consumers won't care about the size: it's on a disc, they're not ripping it to a hard drive of their own.

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