iPhone / PS3 Blu-Ray integration?

[DezNutz]

http://play.tm/story/17278

A NetBlender SDK will soon allow Apple's iPhone to communicate with the PlayStation 3 console, CTO Denny Breitenfeld reveals to Gizmodo today.

The new connectivity will see the the iPhone acting as a PS3 remote control, and will also introduce new touch features that might be integrated into PS3 movies (via Blu-ray), games and applications.

The CTO said the new SDK "will allow studios, independent movie companies to enable BD Touch features. These features send data in two directions from the Disc to the iPhone and vice versa. Video, audio, text, and player commands can be sent. So right now it seems everyone likes the ‘remote control’ idea. However the player can control the iPhone as well."

Another possible application of this new feature would see portable versions of Blu-ray releases copied to the iPhone for watching on the go.

More on this as we get it.

[Borris]

Wow! This is great! Who knew? (Oh wait...we did! https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...253#post785253) Thanks for the multiple source confirmation though.

[Aaron]

Quite possibily the best new i've heard this week.

[PS3-Playb3yond]

I doubt many people will use this feature.

Geez, how many things does Sony want to use the PS3 for?

[Entertainment72]

Originally Posted by PS3-Playb3yond

I doubt many people will use this feature.

Geez, how many things does Sony want to use the PS3 for?

I'll be first on board.. .. Who knew something actually useful.. I know one thing.. I'll use this more than um.. yea BD LIVE

[Brian Cash]

Originally Posted by Borris

Wow! This is great! Who knew? (Oh wait...we did! https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...253#post785253) Thanks for the multiple source confirmation though.

I was thinking the same thing

[SGIBES]

Ill use it too,but more importantly I wanna be able to sinc my IPHONE with PS3 for sharing music and pictures.

[CptGreedle]

Now will it let me use a PS3 to listen to music on my iPhone that I downloaded from iTunes?
Or if they just added an iTunes app for the PS3 I would be happy too!

[bdrex28]

Pretty cool I guess.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...la yback.html


iPhone to interface with PlayStation 3 Blu-ray playback

By AppleInsider Staff
Published: 11:00 AM EST

Blu-ray Disc solutions provider NetBlender is expected to announce this week a software kit for iPhone developers that will allow them to expand upon the Blu-ray playback features of Sony's PS3 gaming console.

Dubbed BD Touch, the technology aims to leverages the network capabilities of Blu-ray players, meaning that iPhones and iPod touches could soon add to their repertoire the ability to dual as a multimedia remote for supporting Blu-ray players like the PS3.

In addition, BD Touch could also serve to funnel movie extras from the PS3 to the iPhone, build an iPhone-based database of a user's movie collection, and beam iTunes Digital Copy versions of movies from Blu-ray discs to the Apple handhelds.

"It's a technology that is built into our professional Blu-Ray authoring tool that will allow studios, independent movie companies to enable BD Touch features," Denny Breitenfeld, the CTO of NetBlender, told Gizmodo. "These features send data in two directions from the Disc to the iPhone and vice versa. Video, Audio, text, and player commands can be sent."

Breitenfeld added that while the idea for remote control functionality has been well received, it should be noted that the BD Touch technology will also allow Blu-ray players to control the iPhone and iPod touch.

"One idea is to automatically pull up IMBD of the movie you are watching right on your iPhone or send the movie information a movie database on your phone," he explained. "The ideas are only limited to what people want and will use."

NetBlender plans on making its SDK available to all of the 100,000+ registered iPhone developers so they can begin work on "applications that easily work with all kinds of [Blu-ray] titles."

A formal announcement is expected on Thursday.

[Entertainment72]

[bajor27]

I didn't read the article, but I'm a bit confused as to how an iphone or itouch would interact with the PS3. From my understanding they aren't Blue Tooth enabled (which btw I think is complete BS on Apple's part)

Would it just be connecting through wi-fi? Is that how remote play works with the PSP?

Overall it does sound alright, but I still won't waste my money on either an iPhone or iTouch though.

Edit - I've discovered that the iPhone has Bluetooth enabled, but all the information I found still says the iTouch is not.

[Entertainment72]

Originally Posted by CptGreedle

Or if they just added an iTunes app for the PS3 I would be happy too!

Imagine.. iTunes on the PS3 which syncs to all THREE.. computer, PS3 and iPhone/touch.. etc..
via WiFi Bluetooth.. whatever..
Holy shazaam Batman!

Heck imagine Apple ditching Apple TV and implementing the PS3 as it's offical "TV" device..

[bdrex28]

No idea, we can't have iphone through work only blackberry due to Exchange.

So, I have no experience with an iPhone.

pulling up Imdb of movies though is kind of cool. I imagine it has to do with the wifi though in someway, just as the iphone can pick up wifi if I remember correctly.

[Entertainment72]

Um.. iPhone is very much Bluetooth enabled..as well as WiFi enabled...

JUST as the PS3 can adapt to changes via firmware.. so can the iPhone.

iPhone will be able to work with exhange soon.. via a firmware update..

[bdrex28]

Sorry for the article repost. I looked and didn't see it.

[TK421]

Originally Posted by bdrex28

No idea, we can't have iphone through work only blackberry due to Exchange.

So, I have no experience with an iPhone.

pulling up Imdb of movies though is kind of cool. I imagine it has to do with the wifi though in someway, just as the iphone can pick up wifi if I remember correctly.

My daughters have the iTouch and my son has a iPhone, we'll just have to see how well it works.