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 ......LOS ANGELES--Warner Home Video will make BD Live a star attraction in most of its new Blu-r...said Warner is determined to include BD Live as much as possible because it should...commentaries. People also might link to BD Live content from their players to buy ring...

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

Video Business;  April 14, 2008 ;     244 words ......Entertainment is going to market its first BD Live, Web-enabled features slowly. The studio makes little mention of BD Live in TV ads or newspaper circulars for...upcoming titles.' Sony did launch a BD Live micro Web site on April 8 at SonyPictures...

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...

Sony to debut BD Live players soon.

Video Business;  March 3, 2008 ;     253 words ......months. The manufacturer's first such BD Live player, the BDP-S350, will launch this...won't be able to actually playback the BD Live material until a firmware upgrade is made...to street in the fall as a full-fledged BD Live player. The BDP-S350 and BDP-S550 are...

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

The Online Reporter;  July 18, 2008 ;     560 words ......can be done with what's being called BD Live (Blu-ray Disc), the ability of Blu-ray...cuts are the obvious possibilities for BD Live. The article says that Disney, Lionsgate and Sony Pictures see BD Live as a killer app that will make Blu-ray...

Panasonic lab grows with Blu-ray.

Video Business;  June 4, 2007 ;     512 words ......Susanne Ault Pushing for picture-in-picture, BD Live UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.-Panasonic's Hollywood...with picture-in-picture and Web-enabled BD Live features. 'We are opening our doors to...picture-in-picture playback. PHL also is testing a BD Live prototype title, which will likely ...

BD player prices drop lower.

Video Business;  November 10, 2008 ;     429 words ...By Susanne Ault Panasonic's latest BD Live player, the DMP-BD35, launched priced...as well as Panasonic's more upscale new BD Live entry, the $399 DMP-BD55, During recent...Panasonic executives anticipated its entry BD Live model would be priced at $399. It's the...

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...

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

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

Sleeping Beauty Platinum Edition Blu-ray.

Video Business;  October 13, 2008 ;     298 words ......doubling as the inaugural title for the studio's BD Live Network. Not every BD Live feature is up and running yet, but Disney has come...for timeliness as well as being right. Outside of BD Live, Sleeping Beauty includes enough special features...

Pioneer, Panasonic set new BD prices.

Video Business;  May 12, 2008 ;     222 words ......oneer's BDP-51FD nor higher-end BDP-05FD have BD Live, allowing players to refresh software...DMP-BD50 will include picture-in-picture and BD Live functions for $699.95. Pioneer's picture-in-pic...Bonus View players, and Panasonic's first BD Live players could face steep competition ...

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-r...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...

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

The Online Reporter;  September 5, 2008 ;     294 words ......will be making these players and records BD Live enabled, which adds Web-enabled features...fashion in the fourth quarter of 2008, when BD Live software and players start hitting the...license. Perhaps there is something more to BD Live besides its interactivity with other devices...