Your thoughts on BD-Live?

[Stu123]

Alot of people when it first started were saying it was a waste of time but i think recently with the studios sending extra content for the disc youve just bought like recently transformers and the x-mens no one is going to turn there nose up at that.Maybe instead of thinking of silly things like being able to talk with your friends while watching a film and games they should just concentrate on giving us extra special features.Im sure theres other worthwhile things you can do with it apart from provide extra special features but i dont think they've come up with anything as worthwhile as that yet.

[Chordata]

As far as I'm concerned, it's "extra", so I won't complain.

[redtornado]

The only downside is I have to register with every studio who does it. Disney, Warner bros, and Lionsgate all have separate accounts. Its kinda hard keeping track of all the usernames and passwords.

[ckenisell]

Originally Posted by redtornado

The only downside is I have to register with every studio who does it. Disney, Warner bros, and Lionsgate all have separate accounts. Its kinda hard keeping track of all the usernames and passwords.

Amen to that.

[Chordata]

Why do you have to register?

I did two BD-Lives last night (Transformers and Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and wasn't required to register to see content.

[SAP12690]

Originally Posted by O_V_N

Why do you have to register?

I did two BD-Lives last night (Transformers and Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and wasn't required to register to see content.

Same here, i did Transformers and X-Men 2, and saw all the content and did not have to register.

[Trekofile]

I'm new to Bluray. I'm hooked up and have successfully got on to BD LIVE through several Disney titles and the Xmen Origions"Wolvernine. But I just got the BD Wizard of Oz. I keep getting a "poor signal strength" text and when I proceed to download a trailer, this is accomplished. BUT, I then try to play it and my player freezes up, screen goes black, and I have to unplug and reset it. What could possibly wrong? I have a new Sharp Aqous 2.0 player, and plugegd a 8 meg flashdrive to it. HELP!

[SuperJedi]

Do you guys with Blu-ray discs that has My chat/Live Screening, ever use it?

I don't see or heard anybody using it on other forums, but perhaps this is the forum that will have people doing it more.

I think It sucks you can ONLY have 5-9 people MAX to chat during movie.. you should be able to chat with 50-100s of people that would really make this thing more Eventful!




And, what is everyone else's favorite BD-Live features?

BTW, my ID is JediMutant if anyone want to add me to watch some movies together.

[Freekman]

Live Screenings with the director for some of WB's releases. Pretty much all I use BD-Live for except registering Sony Blus for their rewards system.

[SuperJedi]

It's kind of a shame it's not more used.

[Phil92]

Nope. Pretty pointless, IMO.

[Alpha]

Not entirely pointless, but I don't really use it much.

[P@t_Mtl]

I voted no because I never use it, I have no interest in that. I would not call it pointless as I am sure a lot of people must enjoy that feature on Blu-ray

[Maswov]

I have never used it, however my Oppo should be here soon so i will check it out then. I probably won't be interested because I never watch the extras that come with disks either.

[wesnah]

It's a pretty neat feature. If they would update the sites that the BD live points to.

[jobrro]

I don't use it very often, especially when they make you register... I can't be bothered typing with an IR remote, but I like having it available, if only for the potential. If BD players couldn't connect to the internet, they wouldn't really be up to 2010 standards of technology(i.e. everything including the fridge is connected to the net).

[Blu-Moon]

I voted no. I wish this feature could be permanently disabled on our player, a Sony BDP-S560. Thanks to the BD-LIVE component, nearly everything on Blu takes entirely too long to load. Whenever I put a DVD into the player and it loads near-instantly, I always find myself wishing my movies on Blu-ray could do that too.

BD-LIVE is fine for those who want it, but I do not!.

[Freekman]

I'll use it for community screenings (i.e. last night) and registering Sony discs for their rewards system. For some Blus where I've already gone through every supplement and am hungry for more (Watchmen), I'll check what's available on BD-Live. But for most discs, I find it useless.

[F13BluRay]

I don't mind having it but it's useless on a lot of movies (I'm looking at you Universal) but there are those rare ones that actually utilize it (Warners- Terminator Salvation, Harry Potter 6, The Dark Knight and Sherlock Holmes and Sony- Movie IQ). Overall I wouldn't care if every Blu was equipped w/ it. I like adding the Data for BD Live to my PS3, its up to about 200 now . And oh yeah my PS3 doesn't take long at all to load Blu's.

[detective392]

I only use it for certain things like trailers or episode previews.

I think most people complaining about BD live use players instead of ps3's. It takes less then a minute on my ps3 to get onto BD live and I know most ps3 users use BD since it's not a hassle to get on like using a stand alone player.