Daniel
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The Toy Story 5 disc details landed and one line is worth flagging: it is shipping on a 100GB 4K Blu-ray. Disney almost always uses the 66GB tier unless a film runs long, and this one is 102 minutes. Short film, biggest disc. That is more bitrate headroom than a 102-minute animated feature strictly needs, which is a nice problem to have for once.
Rest of the spec: 4K disc on September 22, mastered from the film's 4K digital intermediate, Dolby Vision with an HDR10 fallback for players and sets that do not handle DV, Dolby Atmos, presented in the 1.85:1 theatrical ratio. Digital came first on August 18 across Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home. The plain HD Blu-ray drops to 7.1 DTS-HD MA and SDR. Extras run to five deleted scenes in various unfinished states of animation plus a feature-length commentary.
The irritating part is that in the US the only 4K option is a limited edition SteelBook. Disney has been doing this for a while now and the practical effect is that the disc goes out of print right around the time the people who waited decide they want one. If you want it, order it, do not sit on it.
Whether that 100GB shows up on screen is the open question. Pixar output is not a compression torture test. Clean gradients, no grain structure, no messy handheld motion. The titles where capacity genuinely bites are grainy live action catalogue transfers, and those are exactly the ones that keep getting squeezed onto 66GB. Anyone here running a bitrate meter planning to grab this and compare it against their Toy Story 4 disc?
Rest of the spec: 4K disc on September 22, mastered from the film's 4K digital intermediate, Dolby Vision with an HDR10 fallback for players and sets that do not handle DV, Dolby Atmos, presented in the 1.85:1 theatrical ratio. Digital came first on August 18 across Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home. The plain HD Blu-ray drops to 7.1 DTS-HD MA and SDR. Extras run to five deleted scenes in various unfinished states of animation plus a feature-length commentary.
The irritating part is that in the US the only 4K option is a limited edition SteelBook. Disney has been doing this for a while now and the practical effect is that the disc goes out of print right around the time the people who waited decide they want one. If you want it, order it, do not sit on it.
Whether that 100GB shows up on screen is the open question. Pixar output is not a compression torture test. Clean gradients, no grain structure, no messy handheld motion. The titles where capacity genuinely bites are grainy live action catalogue transfers, and those are exactly the ones that keep getting squeezed onto 66GB. Anyone here running a bitrate meter planning to grab this and compare it against their Toy Story 4 disc?
