Yellamokara wrote:
1 - DoStudio. This comes as a modular tool, and starts very cheaply indeed with the DoStudio Indie option (Straight BDMV only) or the EX addon module, and you can also get the BD-J module as well as a 3D module. Unlike Scenarist, the basic version is fully expandable.
It costs ~$2500. Is that "very cheaply"?
Compared to what you will have to pay for BluPrint ($50,000 and upwards plus the encoders), compared to what you woiuld have had to pay for Scenarist (2D vertsion was £25,000 retail, and if you wanted to go to 3D you had to pay a similar amount as there was never any upgrade path fromn Scenarist SD > BD > BD3D) and even compared to what I had to pay for DoStudio when it was still NetBlender (I paid £5000 for the base mode, plus additional for the EX & BD-J, coming in at a total of £13,000) then yes - I would say a pitiful $2500 that gets you an application capable of replication (which is something Encore never dould do) is VERY cheap indeed.
It may be well to remember that technically, Encore cannot create BluRay discs - it can create BD-ROM, but Encore's output certainly should never be described as BluRay bevcause it isn't. No written disc is "BluRay" and no written discs should carry the BD logo because it is non compliant.