How much space do Blu Ray movies take up on a BD disk?
Thursday, June 24th, 2010 at
Thursday 12:08 am
I wanted to know exactly how big the movies are on the Blu Ray disks when you buy them?
I’m not talking about the actual size of the Blu Ray disks (Which the dual layered Blu Ray disks are 50 gigs I think) but the data on them.
Also, have the movies on the disks changed in size since the launch of the Blu Ray players in 2006. For example: comparing X-men 3 to Dark Knight in size.
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Yes. The movie size is between 15-30 GB with some below that and some above that depending on bitrate and movie length. There aren’t too many movies that exceed 30GB because of problems with manufacturing process and a high number of jitter errors on the outer tracks on dual layer discs. Right now there are only two methods of making discs with two or more layers… the "peel and stick" and embossing methods.
Here is a list of some Blu-ray titles with disc information compiled with BDInfo.
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=3338
X-Men 3 is about 21.5GB and Dark Knight is about 35GB with Dark Knight using a slightly higher bitrate.