Interactive Bluray Releases
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will be releasing it’s first interactive Blu-ray releases next year. The movies will add advanced interactivity, such as Web-ready content and picture-in-picture bonus features. There is one issue though, and that is that none of the currently available Blu-ray players can actually PLAY the interactive parts - and only the Playstation 3 can make use of the Web-enabled content. Good news for the people who haven’t bought a Blu-ray player yet, or who want to upgrade, as after October 31 of this year new players will be required to play interactive content. Critics are wary of added features since quite a few features of the conventional DVD system have never been fully utilized. The movies Disney will be releasing in 2008 are: “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in spring 2008, National Treasure in summer of 2008 and culminating with Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo and Sleeping Beauty in fall 2008.”
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment next year will bow its first Blu-ray Disc titles with advanced interactivity, including Web-enabled and picture-in-picture bonus features.
National Treasure will be configured as a BD-Live disc, the format’s term for software that features interactivity accessed through the Web.
Picture-in-picture, with which a separate video streams plays concurrently with the feature film, will be included on Finding Nemo and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
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