New Constellation Technologies' Blu-ray Verification & QC Services

All bases are covered, to help navigate your Blu-ray project safely through authoring, replication and out to market.

Our Blu-ray proofing and verification procedures that we propose you consider, outlined below, go beyond Industry standard, and anything offered at Hollywood or Burbank Blu-ray testing operations - the previous statement is confirmed by New Constellation Technologies' licensing of the EclipseSuite Blu-ray® and the Sony BD-ROM Verifier®.

Please find below a description of our 4 major Blu-ray testing components. Of course, we suggest that you enlist all of them for Blu-ray Disc productions destined for replication and wide distribution, but we also offer the components individually.

Trai Forrester's New Constellation Technologies is licensed under the category of "BD-ROM Commercial Audiovisual Content". NCT is listed as a licensee, on this page.

Please call Trai Forrester at 610-924-9204 or email if you have any questions, and for a great quote.

Sony™ BD-ROM Verifier® - The Gold Standard in Blu-ray Testing and QC

All first tier Hollywood Studios and many Disc Distributors require Sony BD-ROM Verifier® testing, as part of the certification procedure before the Blu-ray Disc is released into the market. The Sony BD-ROM Verifier® can spot anything amiss in your build files. And once known, remedies can be implemented. A clean Sony BD-ROM Verifier report going out into market, can be a good feeling for all involved in the production.

Blu-ray QC that Fits Your Production Flow

The Sony BD-ROM Verifier® is also very versatile; it can perform verification on an HDMV folder residing a BD-R 25/50, a BD Disc Image on a Hard drive, or verify a BDCMF Image on a Disc or Hard drive. It can also check all video and audio elementary streams for specification compliance before import into the Blu-ray Disc authoring system - Many encoders out there do not put out BD spec compliant streams and ones that do can occasionally output errors.

When Errors are Reported

If (when) problems are reported by the Sony BD-ROM Verifier®, which are returned in an extensive error reporting system which include the page number the item in question is dealt with in the various Blu-ray specification books; Trai has the full library of Blu-ray Specification volumes, plus a growing Blu-ray issue experience base.

Trai is committed to helping solve any errors that may come up during your project's verification, at no extra charge for these consultations.

Before Replication: Even as the above battery of Blu-ray file system and AV tests are being performed, Trai's staff is putting your BD-R through the player bank, and testing the living daylights out it. Everything is checked in each player and extensively reported on - Blu-ray Disc load up time, disc menu navigation performance, pop up menu responsiveness, navigation consistency across players, general performance, etc. A full written report is submitted to you with our findings and recommendations.

After Replication: The Blu-ray Check Disc is tested to see if the manufacturer constructed a quality disc with a repeat of the prior to replication performance tests in the players. But before the player compatibility testing begins, one of the Check discs is run through Eclipse ImageAnalysis Blu-ray®, to make sure the Image came through replication properly; and just like with standard definition DVD Check Discs, we monitor the Eclipse ImageAnalysis Blu-ray® Read Performance Chart to see if there's an area on the disc that shows marginal read performance - this is the area where we'll hone in on during the player bank testing (please see this article for more detail on testing DVD and Blu-ray Check Discs with Eclipse ImageAnalysis).

NCT's proofing rooms are loaded with 3D HDTV's, high-resolution large screen plasmas, high-end and midrange 7.1 and 5.1 sound systems, BD playback capable computers; i.e., everything needed to emulate your BD-R and BD Check Disc's performance - just as if it they were already out to market.

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New Constellation Technologies has acquired the best monitoring equipment; the whole system is designed to catch mistakes and imperfections, so they can be corrected.

Our main Proofing rooms are outfitted with 50" Pioneer 'Kuro' Elite Pro plasmas (the best HD monitor ever made, according to Cnet and other tech review sites). Any encoding errors, macro blocking and other digital artifacts, do not stand a chance of getting by us with our experienced staff, and this awesome monitor.

Our monitoring speakers are full Klipsch 7.1 systems (Infinity sub woofers), with Pioneer Elite A/V receivers. We monitor all the audio formats the Blu-ray format supports. Poor mixes, improper surround sound placement, any audio drops and pops, etc., are all duly noted by time code on the final written report.

We check the navigation on the entire disc - All menu buttons are operated, menu calls are tested, and Title end jumps are observed, etc. Subtitles and additional audio streams can be proofed as well - In Spanish, German, Chinese (both versions) and French.

A full written report is submitted to your studio immediately after linear playback testing is complete.