Seamless branching

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Seamless branching is a mechanism used on

Blu-ray Discs to allow the player to jump to a different scene after finishing one. The most common purpose is to have several versions of a scene within one film, without having to store the entire film on the disc several times.[1]

A popular example is the Platinum Edition DVD of The Lion King, where the user can select between the original theatrical version and an extended version. The two versions differ only in one scene (the "morning report"). The DVD player is instructed to play the film normally up to this scene, then jump to the appropriate scene as selected by the user before the commencement of the film, and then jump back to play the rest of the film. The user normally does not notice this jump, hence the word seamless. Larger scale examples of the same technique are seen in the 2000 Ultimate Edition DVD of Terminator 2: Judgment Day,[2] the 2007 DVD rerelease of Blade Runner and the Platinum, Diamond Edition DVDs of Beauty and the Beast and in the 4 K version of Conan[3] in which three different cuts of the films are playable from the same discs.

Another possible use of seamless branching is for the localisation (translation) of on-screen visible text. The

multi-angle
is used more often.

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-13-208939-5
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  2. ^ "Terminator 2 : L'édition limitée 4K Endo Skull disponible à partir du 29 novembre". www.hdnumerique.com (in French). 2023-11-27. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  3. ^ "Conan le Barbare (1982) et Conan le Destructeur (1984) en 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray le 16 janvier chez Arrow Video". www.hdnumerique.com (in French). 2023-10-27. Retrieved 2023-12-31.

See also

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