Blu Ray Disc's

[robinhood1701]

Just ordered my first blu ray writer,a Pioneer BDR-206DBK,

and have used imgburn alot,its a great little prog,

what can it do with blu ray?

can it decrypt, shrink to DVD9 or 5,

have read thru the imgburn blu ray writinging guide,

[ianymaty]

ImgBurn can copy discs only if there are not copyprotected.

 

ImgBurn only burn discs. It can't decrypt, shrink or whatever you want.

[dbminter]

Actually, I am curious if there is a DVDShrink like app for Blu-Ray, myself. Or something like DVDReMake/VOBBlanker for Blu-Ray as well.

[ianymaty]

db, I heard there is BD Rebuilder out there...

[dbminter]

Googled it. There is such software right now in beta phase. It apparently does both the work of DVDReMake and DVDShrink for Blu-Ray discs.

[dbminter]

Also, are Blu-Ray discs scratch proof? There was a promo at the start of a Disney DVD, Wall-E I think, that claims one of the selling points of Blu-Ray discs is that their data layers are scratch proof? Is that a true claim?

[Rincewind]

Sounds like false advertising to me. They should have gone with scratch resistant (keyword right there). Bluray discs have the new 'hardcoating' layer on them, because supposedly also the disc is so much closer (micrometers??) closer to the laser apparatus that there is a possible chance of surface contact? Not sure if can be verified though.

 

This is also why bluray achieves a higher density (besides the even closer together pits). In some cases now I wish HD-DVD won over bluray, only for a more stable format perhaps.

 

In any case, I don't buy their claim if it is scratch-proof.

Edited March 23, 2011 by Rincewind