Category Archives: BD-Live

BD-Live advances – a Possible Killer App?

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Yesterday I went to Sydney, courtesy of Sony, to see its new line of Blu-ray players and some of the stuff it’s doing with Blu-ray discs. First, the players. There are three models: the BDP-S360, BDP-S560 and the BDP-S760. They … Continue reading →

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Samsung delivers BD-Live

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

When Samsung released its BD-P1500 Blu-ray player a few months ago, it delivered a BonusView player with a promise of a future upgrade to BD-Live. Earlier this month it delivered on that promise with new firmware available from Samsung’s website. … Continue reading →

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Samsung BD-P1500 Blu-ray player going BD-Live

Posted on October 12, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

The other day Samsung made available a Version 2 firmware for its BD-P1500 Blu-ray player. As delivered the player was BonusView (ie. PIP) capable, and ‘BD-Live ready’. That is, it had the hardware for BD-Live (principally, the ability to access … Continue reading →

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Iron Man succeeds

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

Well, that explains things. A couple of posts ago I mentioned that US watchers of Iron Man on Blu-ray were having their Playstation 3s seize up on loading the disc. No wonder. It seems that the Blu-ray version of this … Continue reading →

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Has Iron Man recovered?

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

This morning I checked ‘The Iron Man Blu-ray Ferro-Thread‘ and found that overnight the problems seem to have disappeared and people were getting onto BD-Live fine with the Iron Man Blu-ray. As compared to my discussion in the post before … Continue reading →

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Will BD-Live ever be any good?

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

Eventually, I reckon. While I was writing the previous post a possible answer to a conundrum occurred to me. Consumer technology is not built upon an assumption of endless consumer patience. If you provide some feature in your equipment, consumers … Continue reading →

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BD-Live problems

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

The other day Sony kindly sent me its new BDP-S550 Blu-ray player, due for release in Australia in November. Aside from some other virtues, this is a BD-Live player. That is, it can support the Web-enabled content becoming increasingly available … Continue reading →

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Another BD-Live title

Posted on August 14, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

Paramount Pictures will be releasing Iron Man on a twin-disc Blu-ray (and also, ho hum, on DVD) on 9 October 2008. Lots of special features, most of them in HD. Most interestingly, there will be a BD Live extra called … Continue reading →

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On the scrounge again – Sony Playstation 3 to the rescue

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

Today I found a package behind the screen door of my house (a remarkable number of couriers seem unable to read the ‘Stephen Dawson, Writer, Office at Rear’ sign on the house). Within was a ‘Testmold’ Blu-ray from Sony Pictures … Continue reading →

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Web-enabled features

Posted on December 31, 2007 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve just been writing my reviews of HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs for Sound and Image magazine. I did a long one on the newly released The Bourne Ultimatum, which is on HD DVD, so I didn’t have much space … Continue reading →

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