iPhone/iPod Touch to Interact with Blu-Ray Players through BD Touch

NetBlender has announced BD touch, a new technology which will allow iPod and iPhone touch users to control their Blu-ray players. Denny Breitenfeld, the CTO of NetBlender, gizmodo.com said that what they offer is far more than just a standalone app, but for a package that includes a professional Blu-Ray creative complete with an iPhone SDK for developers. They alleged that the users will be able to interact directly with movies, see additional information in the iPhone and evidently iTunes based on markets and on advertising film content.

"It is a technology that is built into our professional
Blu-Ray tool that will allow studios and independent film companies to allow BD Touch characteristics. These characteristics send data in both directions from the Disc to Iphone and vice versa. Video, sound, text and commands player can be sent"

said Breitenfeld Gizmodo.

Here comes the good part: "Well, now it seems that everyone likes the" remote control "idea" Breitenfeld continued.

"However, the player can control the IPhone as well. Another idea is to pull up automatically IMBD of the film you are watching right Iphone or send the movie in a movie information database on your phone. Ideas are limited only to what people want and will use ",

he argues.

NetBlender released a SDK for the iPhone community project (estimated at 100k) ", so that it can take advantage of its capabilities BD Touch build applications that can easily work with all types of securities, the company of CTO added.

NetBlender argues that the final iPhone app using tactile BD technology will be able to interact directly with movies, showing additional information in the iPhone, maintaining a database your movie collection, and even copies of digital film inside the Blu-ray Disc . The same source notes that there may have to be ported to iPod and iPhone touch playback.

The only problem we see with BD Touch is the piece that gave to MacWorld UK:

MacWorld UK also scored an interview with Denny Breitenfeld. Also, I received some additional information from NetBlender of CTO:

"The sophisticated user interface of the iPhone allows greater user interaction, and the power to leverage the iPhone's existing network,"

said Breitenfeld.

"Search, e-commerce and features that are associated with advertising content abound when film imagines a real-time communication between the iPhone and the content displayed now at a Blu-ray player."

He has hinted that users will be able to buy standalone content (such as a soundtrack of the film), while Blu-ray movie run

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