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Efforts by Disney and other studios to add interactivity are only hurting the format's chances of success.
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Blu-ray replication executives yesterday said new BD Live interactive features are making it difficult to make copies of the high-def disc.
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Video Business writes that the executives say they must worry about ensuring the discs are compatible with current players -- and future players that receive firmware updates.
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Blu-ray replication executives yesterday said new BD Live interactive features are making it difficult to make copies of the high-def disc.
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Video Business writes that the executives say they must worry about ensuring the discs are compatible with current players -- and future players that receive firmware updates.
The BDA should have skipped Profile 1.1 and made Profile 2.0 mandatory, this way the only compatibility they have to worry about is with old 1.0 players, and perhaps they could have given discounts for those users to upgrade, hence getting rid of 1.0 altogether and having a single profile.
To be honest, the Internet features, if the current 2.0 discs and HD DVDs are a guide, aren't all that exciting. They're slow and difficult to use, and I'm not sure people want to be fiddling with their remotes during a movie anyway.
But when I read the title "Interactive TV ...", I was thinking about truly interactive TV, like IPTV or TV-on-demand. Now that would be something I think there is a market for, where you choose what to watch and how you watch it (for example, I can suddenly find the urge to watch season 2 episode 9 of Lost, then I would be able to select and watch it ... all for a set monthly fee).
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