DownLoading Blue-Ray Movie

[Iambob]

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[poisondeathray]

If a 1080p is uploaded as a blue-ray, and I download it as a blue-ray movie, and burn it on a blue-ray burner, will it still be a true blue-ray?
thanks for any information on this.

If it was an iso and not re-encoded , yes it would be

This would be unlikely, because more often than not, menus , multiple audio tracks , extras are stripped and the video re-encoded to a smaller size.

[redwudz]

Not likely. A BD disc is about 30GB. Not too many would DL or upload it. The main movie on a BD disc is about 15 - 25GB, so not that either. What you may see is a AVCHD, or more commonly a MKV re-encoded version of the main movie, probably with no menus, no extras, or alternate languages or sometimes no subs. If it's a AVCHD, you may be able to burn it on a Blu-ray disc or possibly a DL DVD disc and it might play on a set top player. But not all set top players accept AVCHD.

And I'm not aware of any legal downloadable BD rips. Better to just buy the BD.

And welcome to our forums.

[deadrats]

If a 1080p is uploaded as a blue-ray, and I download it as a blue-ray movie, and burn it on a blue-ray burner, will it still be a true blue-ray?
thanks for any information on this.

first of all you are an evil pirate for downloading copyrighted content, how dare you deprive these poor companies that are worth billion of the extra $50 they are over-charging for each blu-ray.

seriously though, just because something is labeled as "blu-ray" doesn't mean that it is blu-ray compliant, nor does it mean that it's anywhere near what one would consider "blu-ray" quality, more often than not some wanker rented the blu-ray and then re-encoded it, often poorly and uploaded it with the word "blu-ray" in the title of the file.

my own personal rule of thumb is that if the file is in the 4 gig range and 1080p then expect the quality to blow, i think i have only seen 2 or 3 such files that i could honestly say "wow" that's a good encode.

[Iambob]

First of all Deadrats, I am not a pirate. I do not download copyrighted content. This question derived from a group discussion at work, and I was just trying to get a good answer from some who knew what they were talking about, not from a group of "don't knows" around the coffee machine.

Second of all, thanks for your honest input. I take no offense. I don't know you, and you do not know me, so on that playing field we are even. I so respect your honest input, my take was getting a 1080p down to 4 GB or less was going to take a lot of doing. Thanks for you input though. No hard feelings my friend.