If you vote NO, please give a reason for not wanting any expansion of details, if you vote YES, please give what is the most important for you or give additional ideas.

Things are not as simple anymore, concerning "Video", as it was during the heydays (the sole existence) of DVD(-Videos)'s. DVD's were rather 'simple', they had a (then unnamed) "standard definition", coded in MPEG-2, PAL/NTSC, had a specific aspect ratio, were anamorphic or non-anamorphic. These were about the only "factors that defined the image"; the one could be suspected, the other could be defined under the “Video”-field.

I think with HD media (Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD) times are (getting totally) different, and that combined with the sheer dedication that crept in detailing the technical specification of audio tracks, the same care is justified for "Video". The lack of details for HD media concerning Video is staggering

I want to outline some of the details I would like to see under "Video", because I think they are useful and will be a great help choosing the "ultimate edition" of a movie, since every aspect details the technical presentation on screen.

HD media are "high definition media", but they can also be employed as "high capacity media” with SD content as main feature, which makes discerning means even more appropriate. These HD media have so many technical possibilities that details are not just “something fancy”, but as needed as the details we give to every Audio track. I would connect the needed fields to a few questions we can ask here.
* SD or HD content?
* What resolution, if HD (720p/i, 1080p/i, and in the future: 4K, 8K, …)? Also, has there been upscaled?
* What codec has been used (MPEG-2, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, SMPTE VC-1)?
* Is the Feature Film 2D/3D (Anaglyphic or Stereoscopic)? And can you choose the way to see the movie (by means of inclusion on the same disc, or extra disc)?
*Something I’d like to see optionally: the inclusion of the OAR (Original Aspect Ratio), and the option to note whether the Feature Film solely contains color shots, monochromatic (black-and-white and tinted), colorized or mixed shots (for example: red dressed little girl in Schindler’s List).

Some may have been posed as Feature Requests before, the fact that I re-iterate them underlines my opinion of evaluating and thoroughly considering them for inclusion. Note that these are just shimmering ideas, but the main lines I would like to see included are here.

What would you think? Please see this as a beginning to a larger debate as what REALLY should be included under Video, and how to do it.

Quoting MatrixTom:

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* What resolution, if HD (720p/i, 1080p/i, and in the future: 4K, 8K, …)?

Well, I have yet to see anything different from 1080p on a commercially produced BD, so it might be a moot point.

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Also, has there been upscaled?

And that would be a total documentation nightmare. How to proof that something is an upscale?

cya, Mithi

Codecs and resolutions can be verified easily with the disc, but things like OAR would be a nightmare when sometimes even the director and DOP can't agree on the matter (or should that be IAR, intended aspect ratio? Maybe we need one DIAR and one DOPIAR) 

And nowadays we also have films released in multiple formats at the same time, like IMAX.

Quoting MatrixTom:

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If you vote NO, please give a reason for not wanting any expansion of details

It's not so much that I don't want an expansion of video details as it is that I think there are many more interesting upgrades that need to see the light of day, and programming resources are limited.

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Most concerts and video documentaries on Blu-ray are 1080i (60Hz in NTSC countries and 50Hz in PAL countries)

I think it was a good decision not to include 25p because then we would have even more cheaply converted PAL broadcast sources with the 4% speed-up in Europe. Now if they want progressive they are forced to use 24p sources.

I want this, too. I wish Blu-ray had supported basically any framerate and converted as necessary. Material shot at 25 fps or 30 has to be interlaced and 16 fps, which was a common silent speed, can't bee done correctly.

I am with those that have said, good thought, BUT there are far bigger and more important fish to fry FIRST, some of which have been waiting for years.