I'd be amazed if the number of BD25/50s matched the announcement, given what's being included and the sheer volume of content that's been added at the last minute - they were still filming and recording material as recently as last month.peerpee wrote:The bit budgets on the discs seemed to be changing daily. Those figures may not end up being accurate. I think it's pretty safe to say that nothing was done to "artificially inflate" the size of the set, it was for safety – to allow for more content to be added, which it was. Last week, I think it was 8x BD50s, but even that wasn't locked down.
But the notion that the set is being "artificially inflated" by being deliberately and cynically presented on more discs than is necessary is ludicrous - why on earth would the BFI deliberately increase their per-item production costs if they didn't have to? Quite aside from anything else, this would allow more scope for things to go wrong - and I speak as someone who's co-ordinated quite a few multi-disc box sets in my time (my record being 11, which isn't far off this project). Also, I know Sam Dunn well, and the chances of him spending unnecessary funds on something Machiavellian like this when they can be diverted into on-disc content is zero - I imagine every single penny on this project has had to be watched like the proverbial hawk.
