Theoretically, 4K, 6K and 8K encodes are not impossible on a Blu-ray disc. All we'd need is those 200GB / 400GB discs and a new profile. The new profile could define new specs. The current blu-ray players would see that the content only plays with profile 5.0 or higher (or something like that) and will display an error message saying this disc is incompatible with this player. This would of course upset people, so they would likely have to include a 1080p encode as well for backwards compatibility with lower profiles.
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Andy @ Oct 25th 2008 2:44AM
Theoretically, 4K, 6K and 8K encodes are not impossible on a Blu-ray disc. All we'd need is those 200GB / 400GB discs and a new profile. The new profile could define new specs. The current blu-ray players would see that the content only plays with profile 5.0 or higher (or something like that) and will display an error message saying this disc is incompatible with this player. This would of course upset people, so they would likely have to include a 1080p encode as well for backwards compatibility with lower profiles.
reallynotnick @ Oct 25th 2008 11:53AM
That would be awesome, but can a standard BD player read a 200GB disc?