What movies have this feature and does it work well?

Close Encounter and Spiderman 2 will.

AVP is the only title available currently.

I'm not trying to start a war here, but is it true that HD-DVD cannot support this feature? Why not? DVD did.

The Descent support it also

Excuse my ignorance, but what does seamless branching do?

Excuse my ignorance, but what does seamless branching do?

Being able to contain the theatrical cut and special edition on the same disk.

I'm not trying to start a war here, but is it true that HD-DVD cannot support this feature? Why not? DVD d

I've been wondering this also. For example, I have T2 on HD DVD and it's on 2 discs one for each cut. That's pretty sad considering the nearly 10 year old Ultimate edition has both cuts on one DVD. If it's truly a bandwidth issue, something has to be done to rectify it.

Being able to contain the theatrical cut and special edition on the same disk.



I've been wondering this also. For example, I have T2 on HD DVD and it's on 2 discs one for each cut. That's pretty sad considering the nearly 10 year old Ultimate edition has both cuts on one DVD. If it's truly a bandwidth issue, something has to be done to rectify it.

Well on any format Branching eat Half Banwidth

Example : HD DVD can have 24mbits dedicated to Video, BluRay 40mibts, when you arrived in the 'BRanch Section of the film' both are overlapped so if give you half peak. Witch is 12mbits on HD DVD and 20mbits on BluRay , 12mbits during action scene is way less forgiable than 20mbits on BluRay..

Well on any format Branching eat Half Banwidth

Example : HD DVD can have 24mbits dedicated to Video, BluRay 40mibts, when you arrived in the 'BRanch Section of the film' both are overlapped so if give you half peak. Witch is 12mbits on HD DVD and 20mbits on BluRay , 12mbits during action scene is way less forgiable than 20mbits on BluRay..

Not true. Branched segments are stored sequentially, not in parallel. Otherwise they'd all have to be the same length. What you state is only true for multi-angle streams.

The Descent support it also

Really? I thought Descent just had 2 separate encodes, one with PIP and other without.

I keep hearing that Blu-ray handles seamless branching better than HD-DVD. Which is why I preordered Blade Runner on Blu-ray since 3 cuts of the movie will be included on a single disc which would indicate seamless branching will be used.

Really? I thought Descent just had 2 separate encodes, one with PIP and other without.

There is also the rated and unrated (for no PiP iirc) that uses branching.