Blu-Ray 2.0 Interactive DVDs
Mar 29th, 2008 by filmbook
The first interactive Blu-Ray DVDs are on there way. On April 8, 2008, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and The 6th Day, will be Sony’s first Blu-Ray DVD Live (BD-Live) titles to be introduced to the high-definition DVD market. BD-Live titles will be able to connect to the internet for more bonus materials and features, including: live virtual events, wallpaper downloads, gaming ringtones and p2p interactions. I find this curious. Why not just include this material and functionality on the DVD’s initial release? Why force people to go to a website for these items and programs?
Also on April 8, the BD-Live rollout will coincide “‘with the launch of a new software update for Sony’s PlayStation 3 that makes the game console the first Blu-ray player with Internet connectivity, an ability known as ‘Profile 2.0.’” This is good news for PS3 owners who it seems will be on the cutting edge of Blu-Ray technology. Stand-alone Blu-Ray owners and future owners will not be left behind. “‘Ultimately, all Blu-ray players will be Profile 2.0. When the format launched in June 2006, Blu-ray players were of the basic Profile 1.0 kind, meaning they could offer neither picture-in-picture nor Internet connectivity, something the doomed HD DVD rival format offered from Day 1.’” Isn’t it humorous that one of the major reasons why movies studios picked Blu-Ray over HD was because of its higher level of copy-right protection but now that protection has been cracked and Blu-Ray rips are all over the internet, ready to be downloaded and burned onto blank double-layer DVDs.
Most people don’t realize though that to fully benefit for a Blu-Ray player, any Blu-Ray player, you need an HDTV with some nice SD video processing circuitry on the inside. Plus, do you really want to watch a regular television signal on your HDTV.? Hell no, so now you have to order HDTV programming from one of the cable providers. By getting a next generation DVD player, you will eventually be upgrading 75-90% of your home theater equipment.
Source: Reuters
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I updated my player but I know I dont have any movies that support these features. On a side note I did finally receive my 5 free movies that they were giving away earlier in the year so the offers are good.
That Sony was giving away with the purchase of a PS3?
Yeah, the selection was a bit weak in some of the categories but I did get Devil’s Rejects, the first Pirates and the reissued Full Metal Jacket along with SWAT and Flight of the Phoenix, the last 2 obviously being the lesser titles but Phoenix holds up great even after all this time and SWAT is a guilty pleasure.
SWAT? In the name of Dionysus, how could you pick a PG-13, censored and average cop flick like that? The selection most have been VERY small. I guess they weren’t offering Narc or The French Connection.
Are they still giving away five Blu-Ray films with the purchase of a PS3?
Trust me, SWAT was the best of the category, the way they had it worked up was that you had 5 columns and a group of films in each one, so if one column had 2 good films you could only get one from it and one column has only so so films you’d be stuck with one so so film, which SWAT was.
That was clever of them. Sneaky bastards.
Are they still giving away five Blu-Ray films with the purchase of a PS3?