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Originally Posted by jorg

talk i am very curious to bd-j abilitys to run as a type of "operating system" or to host programs

such as will there be a day were a program such as browser could be programed to run on a player?

Absolutely, since the Java platform supports most of the same capabilities an operating system does. In fact, it's already been done on the very similar Multimedia Home Platform (MHP), a standard for over-the-air and satellite TV based on the same Java platform as BD-J. When you watch "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" in Italy you get a Java browser (transparently) downloaded to your set-top box, and then that browser renders the HTML content for the game itself (see screenshot below). This model could work well for studios to use to access specific HTML content online, but probably wouldn't work great as a general purpose browser (since it likely wouldn't support all of the latest HTML standards used online).



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