New software enables potential iPhone/Blu-ray interaction

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New software enables potential iPhone/Blu-ray interaction

NetBlender has introduced BD Touch technology, a software toolkit that could enable iPhones and iPod touches to interact with content on a Blu-ray Disc. The technology will require a BD Touch-compatible Blu-ray Disc—as yet unreleased—and an iPhone OS application that interacts with the company’s BD Touch SDK. It leverages the network connection built into Blu-ray players and the Wi-Fi connectivity of the iPhone and iPod touch to create two-way communication between the devices, allowing for transfer of video, audio, text, and player commands. Possible applications of the technology include pushing digital copies of a movie to an iPhone from the Blu-ray Disc menu, cataloguing a viewer’s Blu-ray Disc collection and providing movie suggestions, and more. “By releasing the BD Touch SDK to the iPhone developer community we’re excited to see creative possibilities for Blu-ray interactivity flourish,” said Denny Breitenfeld, NetBlender CTO. “The BD Touch framework is built into our Blu-ray disc authoring solution, DoStudio, so Blu-ray authors at every level of the industry will be able to take advantage of these exciting new applications on their discs with point and click ease.”

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Comments

1

Waouwwww! I’d like to see a video demo of that.

Posted by Shawin on April 10, 2008 at 7:52 AM (PDT)

2

Great Googly Moogly!

Posted by Galley in Greenville, SC on April 10, 2008 at 8:25 AM (PDT)

3

They have one on their site here: http://www.netblender.com/technology/bdtouch_home.asp

They also seem to have youtube videos as well.

Posted by Jason on April 10, 2008 at 9:21 AM (PDT)

4

hai sir
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Posted by btheja123 on April 13, 2008 at 2:53 AM (PDT)

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