NY Times Disney Blu-ray Article

[Tok]

This comes to mind...

Just because you can do something does not mean you should do it.

I agree I am not really that excited by these BD-Live enhancements. I am sure those diehard redants that slammed BD for not doing things like this will now be equally slamming these so-called features.

[kpkelley]

This may be a new article, but the story is pretty old:

http://www.hollywoodinhidef.com/blog_detail.php?id=207

[HD Man]

Originally Posted by CraigW

I am sure those diehard redants that slammed BD for not doing things like this will now be equally slamming these so-called features.

Now that is absolutely true!!

I may even come to like the feature, and won't specifically not buy a player that is 2.0 profile, but assume the operator will be able to turn the features off and on he/she deems fit.

I guess you could also have polling at the conclusion of movies, discussions of alternate endings, etc, or the studio could ask customers what catalog movies from their vault they would most like to see on blu-ray, etc. The on-line interactive aspects are pretty endless, and that might be kind of cool.

[kefrank]

while the specific features announced for Sleeping Beauty don't really excite me, there is potential for the studios to do some cool things with BD-Live, such as:

-- automatically cataloging your Blu-ray collection online (given the appropriate user-input)
-- allow user-created content such as menu themes, amateur commentaries, etc to be downloaded, experienced, and rated
-- allow users to set up a custom "pre-movie reel" from a vast library of trailers and other content - basically, a customizable version of the "Warner Night at the Movies" feature on some of the classic WB DVDs

there are many others. i just hope the studios get creative enough to make BD-Live worth it.

[owa]

I haven't been all that excited about the stuff offered so far but I've been voting for the live chat type functionality in the Sony BD-Live polls. With most of my friends having kids, we don't get together nearly as often to watch movies. So, I'm thinking it could be somewhat fun to have chatting during movies but it would only work for movies that we've already seen or campy type movies. I wouldn't want to be trying to type text during a movie I was trying to watch for the first time. Also, keyboards for text entry at a minimum (I wonder if voice-chat is possible over BD-Live). If I have to use a remote/controller and it takes like 10 minutes to type a message, it won't be very useful for realtime chatting (imo).

[Bobby Henderson]

I'm not all that excited about certain BD Live features, like text chats with other people during the movie.

However, it's probably still a very good idea to pursue development of features like that.

It's a good idea for one very true reason: not everyone likes the same things.

There's so many people in this forum and others griping about the inclusion of extra features and other stuff like that. I have one answer for that: don't watch it! No one is twisting any viewer's arm to watch any extra features or use BD Live functions and any of that other stuff. But other people do like that sort of thing. And it is just plain ignorant to pretend or insist otherwise.

While in movie text chatting via BD Live may seem silly to me, I can see a younger generation or just other people more turned on by text function crap getting into it in a big way.

Blu-ray has the ability to do a lot of different things to make lots of different customers happy -and thus make a movie disc more appealing to a larger group of people.

[Blu Titan]

I had a lot of initital doubts about BD Live. However, BD Live can have a lot of interesting application. I am a PQ & AQ guy, but I do understand that many people care for the extras and the interactivity.

[fdm]