Sony BD-Live

[EricJ]

May be old news by now, but:
After months of theoretical geek-discussion about Profile 2.0 and BD-Live (and all those cool HDi features that HD-DVD was going to bring us, on our wireless/Ethernet modem! ), finally got my first peek at Sony's version of Internet BD-Live, via wireless PS3 and a copy of "Cirque du Soleil: Corteo"
(Although "Dralion" and "La Nouba" were better, but I'd watch any Cirque in 1080. )

After about two-minutes of loading, what popped up onscreen was a sort of proto mini-Playstation Network, with:
- A "magazine-style" index offering "Spotlight" on this month's promoted disks (previews for new titles, and a web-Blackjack game for "21"),
- The standard downloadable Blu previews as already available on PSN (which took about the same length of time to download as PSN's
- An index of what extras I'd already collected, which I assume would stay on the hard drive and be accessed from any Sony disk.
- (And presumably any web-exclusive disk content, if there'd happened to be any for this title.)
Seems like all the content was on the Sony server, and the software only is there to plug the machine into this month's latest "issue" of extras.

So, THIS's what all the waiting-for-2.0 fuss was about?
I can live with it--Like all those DVD frills (Alternate Angle, anyone?) that never caught on as toys, but ended up as useful disk-extra tools, I can see this New Thing being harnessed for useful purposes.
Just so long as I don't have to pull the disk down three years from now, and wonder whether anyone still wants to chat about a Cirque show.