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

Video Business;  April 14, 2008 ;   Ault, Susanne;   244 words ......offers a basic explanation for BD Live. Sony is gradually ramping up the...be downloaded from the PS3 BD Live network. Sony's June 17 Men in Black release...retailers.' No hardware could play BD Live features until Sony released a firmware upgrade...

Sony to debut BD Live players soon.

Video Business;  March 3, 2008 ;     253 words ...By Susanne Ault Sony's debut Web-enabled...manufacturer's first such BD Live player, the BDP-S350...actually playback the BD Live material until a...determined date. Sony's second model, the...as a full-fledged BD Live player. The BDP-S350...about changes to its BD ...

Sony unveils a new Blu-ray lineup.(SONY SCENE)

The Online Reporter;  September 5, 2008 ;     294 words ......also come down. Sony's big boost will...players and records BD Live enabled, which...quarter of 2008, when BD Live software and players...hitting the market. Sony's biggest competitor...actual numbers, then BD Live would be worth more to Sony and a lot more...

Software may speed BD Live titles.

Video Business;  April 21, 2008 ;     368 words ......ray Disc development software, dubbed BD Live Platform, promises to save studios time...bonus features. The result could be more BD Live titles coming to market with beefed up interactivity this year. Rather than build BD Live features from scratch with each title...

Warner plans BD Live push.(Conference notes)

Video Business;  June 23, 2008 ;     612 words ......talent community should be quick to participate in BD Live, added Antonellis, likely boosting its consumer appeal...production process, she said. It will be months [with BD Live] versus several years [with DVD]. It might not be long...Blu-ray Disc growing pains, including the complexity of ...

Beauty makes the most of BD Live.

Video Business;  June 16, 2008 ;     525 words ......Oct. 7 with the format's most advanced BD Live interactive features to date. The title...relatively few major studio releases with BD Live have included only one or two Web-enabled...president Bob Chapek said of the studio's BD Live launch. 'Every subsequent Disney title...

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

The Online Reporter;  July 18, 2008 ;     560 words ......players did not support BD Live. All of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3...release more in the future. Sony, the article says, has eight BD Live movies so far and expects...titles will come with BD Live functions. Lexine Wong, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment...

BD Live set-tops ready for shelves.

Video Business;  July 14, 2008 ;     674 words ......competition The first BD Live Blu-ray Disc set-t...interactivity value. Sony's PlayStation 3...Panasonic, Samsung and Sony at January's Consumer...gaming system and BD Live-capable Blu-ray...this model is only BD Live-ready, meaning it...Similarly tagged BD ...

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...that CNET did with Sony Electronics chief...He said the dream BD Live would be one where...0 is also known as BD Live because it added Java-bas...producers' walled gardens. Sony upgraded every ...

Panasonic lowers BD Live player prices.

Video Business;  September 22, 2008 ;     73 words ...By Susanne Ault Panasonic will price its latest BD Live model, the DMP-BD35, at $399, which is $300 less than the tag for its 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 as the top ...

There's Blu-ray for every budget.

Video Business;  September 8, 2008 ;     787 words ......released in the fall. Sony announced the $2...company called fully BD Live capable. The player...upgraded to include BD Live functionality. Before...start, many expected Sony to cut its price...The player includes BD Live capabilities, just...new offerings from ...

Tinker Bell rings in with BD Live.

Video Business;  June 2, 2008 ;     219 words ......premiere Tinker Bell on Oct. 28 as one of the studio's early Web-enabled BD Live Blu-ray titles, following Sleeping Beauty , which bows with BD Live on Oct. 7. Tinker Bell 's BD Live enhancements revolve around a 'Tinker Trainer Game,' in which players...

Sony's game face: films offset PS3 drain.

Daily Variety;  January 31, 2007 ;   Goldsmith, Jill;   523 words ...Sony's ballyhooed PlayStation 3 squeezed overall earnings last quarter, despite a boom in electronics and a Bond bonanza at Sony Pictures. Net profit fell 5.3% to $1.3 billion; operating...5 billion. Revenue rose 10% to $22 billion. Nevertheless, Sony raised its full-year profit forecast by 38%, suggesting ...

Sony Intros New Digital Media Products in Europe.

The Online Reporter;  March 8, 2003 ;     508 words ...Sony Europe unveiled new products to the European press in Berlin...recorders compatible with multiple DVD-Video recording formats, Sony's new 1GB Memory Stick that doubles storage capacity and data transfer rates, plus important developments in Sony's four central connectivity platforms, namely WEGA TVs, ...