Blue-Ray to DVD?

Question

I was wondering if I can make Blue-Ray movies into DVD.

(single layer) Blue-Ray holds 25GB and DVD holds 4.7 GB. Basically rip blue-ray to dvd then it becomes 5 DVDs.

So you can have a high quality dvd movie saying like insert DVD 2 then insert DVD 3. I think this will be a headache because you will have to switch dvds every 20 min.

Is this possible though?

Answer 1

If you split it right, then it's possible, just not in a DVD player. You'd have to play it out of your computer. DVD players can only put out SDTV, and can't handle HD signal.

Answer 2

Technically, you COULD do that. Though most people would not accept that for watching films, particularly in the USA and Europe. The first couple of video disc formats (VideoDisc, Video CD) failed, or at best, hit limited audiences, simply because the film was interrupted in the middle to switch or flip the disc.

And of course, this would only work on a PC. The size of the video for BD (up to 1920x1080) as well as the technology (VC-1, AVC, DolbyTrueHD, etc) guarantees that none of these stuff could play on a DVD player, even if you got it there somehow. Also, commercial BDs are often 50GB these days... that's a whole lot of disc swapping. Since you need a PC for this anyway, you'd be better off just ripping the BD to a hard drive.

And of course, you would have to edit the video to add the "insert DVD 3" message if you wanted that to pop up. Seems much easier to just buy the BD.