FOX on BD-J

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Originally Posted by ps3andlovinit

I'm not up to speed on what the features of each format offer..but it was interesting to see that "evil" Sony is supporting a format that "allows" other content producers to build games into their movie experiences - that potentially compete with the PS3 in some respects for their gaming dollar.

Sony would probably see it as opportunity. Consumers that who would get excited about gaming value-added, would probably consider a PS/3 as the home theater device. So, in the end, they benefit more from the capability than they lose by the competition.

Originally Posted by ps3andlovinit

Btw does HD-DVD allow this level of interaction or does M$ want to make sure you must buy a 360 to get any type of gaming features or the interactivite stuff demonstrated by BD Live?

HDi is like a browser concept. You have an XML for defining pages of content, and have behaviours and a scripting language to make it dynamic. But you need to power of a browser engine behind the scenes. At this point no SoC has the power required to render HDi. HDi needs the equivalent of, I believe, a 850Mhz processor, which would be rather significant amount of transistors for a SoC, even nowdays. This is accomplished on full HD DVD players by including an Intel processor.

BD-J can support levels of computation power. While HDi seems to be an all or nothing approach.

Lest us not forget that one of Microsoft's goals is to get WinCE into players. And to fight the expansion of Java. The Broadcom/Microsoft platform will undoubtedly be WinCE based.

Gary