Warner plans BD Live push.(Conference notes)

Video Business;  June 23, 2008 ;     612 words ......Warner Home Video will make BD Live a star attraction in most of its new Blu-ray Disc releases, promised Warner...Warner is determined to include BD Live as much as possible because...ESCA conference admitted to Blu-ray Disc growing pains, including the ...

Software may speed BD Live titles.

Video Business;  April 21, 2008 ;     368 words ...By Susanne Ault New Blu-ray Disc development software, dubbed BD Live Platform, promises to save...features. The result could be more BD Live titles coming to market with...this year. Rather than build BD Live features from scratch with...

Disney pushing Blu-ray's BD Live.(ENABLING TECHNOLOGY)

The Online Reporter;  July 18, 2008 ;     560 words ......done with what's being called BD Live (Blu-ray Disc), the ability of Blu-ray disc...obvious possibilities for BD Live. The article says that Disney...Disney says all its future Blu-ray titles will come with BD Live functions. ...

Beauty makes the most of BD Live.

Video Business;  June 16, 2008 ;     525 words ......Sleeping Beauty will awake on Blu-ray Disc Oct. 7 with the format's most advanced BD Live interactive features to date...major studio releases with BD Live have included only one or...Chapek said of the studio's BD Live launch. 'Every subsequent...

Panasonic lab grows with Blu-ray.

Video Business;  June 4, 2007 ;     512 words ......Pushing for picture-in-picture, BD Live UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.-Panasonic...its staff to grow with the Blu-ray Disc format. Since its inception...picture-in-picture and Web-enabled BD Live features. 'We are opening...playback. PHL also is testing a BD Live ...

BD Live launch starts with a whisper.(Sony Pictures Home Entertainment...

Video Business;  April 14, 2008 ;     244 words ......going to market its first BD Live, Web-enabled features slowly...studio makes little mention of BD Live in TV ads or newspaper circulars for April 8 Blu-ray Disc releases Walk Hard and The...titles.' Sony did launch a BD Live micro Web site on April 8...offers a ...

New Blu-ray player prices run gamut.

Video Business;  September 1, 2008 ;     508 words ......bigger tag Next-generation Blu-ray Disc players from Panasonic...expected to talk up two new BD Live models, the DMP-BD35...Entertainment Group and the Blu-ray Disc Assn. will market the...well positioned to give Blu-ray Disc much deserved ...

'Live' interactivity still no-show for Blu-ray.

Video Business;  December 11, 2006 ;     562 words ......Consumer Electronics Show, Blu-ray Disc supporters hyped BD Live, the format's ability to deliver...once again beat the drum for BD Live with demonstrations of the...ray player that can handle BD Live interactivity. Most studios...

Pioneer, Panasonic set new BD prices.

Video Business;  May 12, 2008 ;     222 words ......out advanced, next-generation Blu-ray Disc players this year, priced at...nor higher-end BDP-05FD have BD Live, allowing players to refresh...include picture-in-picture and BD Live functions for $699.95. Pioneer...players, and Panasonic's first BD Live players ...

There's Blu-ray for every budget.

Video Business;  September 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ......introduce new lower-priced Blu-ray Disc players to go after the mass...introduced at the show include BD Live functionality or the ability...the upcoming LG BD300, with BD Live functionality and the...first time at CEDIA that Blu-ray had the floor to itself...HD ...

Disney to standardize on BD Live for all Blu-ray titles.(DIGIGRAMS)(Brief...

The Online Reporter;  July 25, 2008 ;     124 words ......unit, in a New York Times piece about BD Live, Blu-ray's interactive capability. It...director's cuts. Disney has committed to having BD Live on all its future Blu-ray products, starting...Sleeping Beauty in September. One might call BD Live Blu-ray's version of cloud computing...

Sony wants to add social network functions to BD live.(CLOUD COMPUTING)

The Online Reporter;  July 25, 2008 ;     333 words ...Sony hopes to make Blu-ray's BD Live even more interactive by adding social...chief Stan Glasgow. He said the dream BD Live would be one where you could interface...socially interact with other people. Because BD Live devices are connected through the Internet...

Blu-ray price drops put a handful under $300.

Video Business;  September 29, 2008 ;     238 words ......player Memorex has launched a Blu-ray Disc player priced at $269, marking...Panasonic revealed that its latest BD Live model, the DMP-BD35, will bow...100 price cut for Samsung's BD Live-ready BD-P1500, now priced...499 BD-P2500, with immediate BD Live playback, ...

Panasonic lowers BD Live player prices.

Video Business;  September 22, 2008 ;     73 words ......Susanne Ault Panasonic will price its latest BD Live model, the DMP-BD35, at $399, which is $300...first Web-enabled DMP-BD50 model. Panasonic's BD Live pricing now matches that of current BD Live models for Sony and Samsung, which today rank...

BD Live on all Sony releases.

Video Business;  June 30, 2008 ;     61 words ......LAS VEGAS--Sony is pledging to feature BD Live interactivity on all of its future Blu-ray...business development, demonstrated the BD Live interface it has made standard during...consumer reaction on the studio's first BD Live releases, Walk Hard and The Sixth Day...