New BD-Live Application Turns Blu-ray Players into VOD Boxes

Link to news source: Click Here

"a German Blu-ray production studio, demonstrated...its video-on-demand service [which] lets users rent movies via any Blu-ray player, provided it supports BD-Live..."

Cubist commentary

We've commented on previous articles posted here that BD-Live is only now getting up to speed in terms of how it will be used. Enteractive, the German production studio mentioned in this article, has taken a significant leap forward, demonstrating that VOD isn't necessarily the threat to Blu-ray acceptance that some have said it is. With the development of their BD-Live application, Enteractive has proved that the Blu-ray technology has the versatility to adapt to the changing trends of technology. The future is not always clear, but there does seem to be some truth to the predictions that homes in the not-to-distant future will have one box handling all media. With innovations such as this, that box may be a BD-Live-enabled Blu-ray player.

File under: Blu-ray News