Benjamin Feingold, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, announced that the first Blu-Ray disc that contains a full length high definition movie was sent to companies that will produce Blu-Ray hardware for player testing. The film on the disc is "Charlie's Angles: Full Throttle", which was compressed and authored in MPEG 2 full high definition (1920x1080) by Sony Pictures' Digital Authoring Center.

The new edition of "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" disc features dynamic menus with full resolution graphics and animation, high quality audio and superior picture quality. Company officials claim that Blu-Ray will bring the best HD (high definition) experience possible to the home. Also, Sony is confident that this move will help people to understand that Blu-Ray is a viable format and ready to enter the market.

The prototype disc will be shipped to numerous Blu-Ray disc hardware manufacturers and was fully created using Sony Pictures authoring tools.

The Blu-Ray format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data. A single-layer Blu-Ray disc can hold 25GB, which can be used to record over 2 hours of HDTV or more than 13 hours of standard-definition TV. There are also dual-layer versions of the discs with a 50GB capacity.