Today the official announcement came out and as promised on our previous post “Blu-ray Controlled by iPhones and iPods”. Here are some more details and quotes of key players from NetBlender about this exciting release.

“Having spent the past decade building interactive video products we are thrilled to bring together two of the most interactive consumer products ever created with BD Touch,” said John Harrington, NetBlender CEO. “We began R&D on integrating the two devices right after I experienced the iPhone Multi-Touch interface for the first time.” “Having spent the past decade building interactive video products we are thrilled to bring together two of the most interactive consumer products ever created with BD Touch,” said John Harrington, NetBlender CEO. “We began R&D on integrating the two devices right after I experienced the iPhone Multi-Touch interface for the first time.”

“We are pleased that NetBlender’s DoStudio, which incorporates Corel’s PureHD Multiplexing technology, is continuing to expand the creative possibilities for next generation media professionals,” said Jeff Hastings, President and GM Corel Digital Media.

“By releasing the BD Touch SDK to the iPhone developer community we’re excited to see creative possibilities for Blu-ray interactivity flourish,” said Denny Breitenfeld, NetBlender CTO. “The BD Touch framework is built into our Blu-ray disc authoring solution, DoStudio, so Blu-ray authorers at every level of the industry will be able to take advantage of these exciting new applications on their discs with point and click ease.”

Some implementations of BD Touch will include:

• Pushing digital copies of movies to an iPhone from the Blu-ray disc menu.
• Automatically cataloguing a viewer’s Blu-ray disc collection and providing movie suggestions
• Updating and managing a viewer’s rental queue
• Displaying trivia and extra information about a movie in sync with the movie’s playback
• Turning existing Blu-ray discs into games that use the iPhone as the game controller
• Viewing fan-created content in sync with the disc
• Receive audio and video from the Blu-ray Disc.
• Receive current information about the Blu-ray Disc that is playing such as the title’s name, the studio, the current audio and subtitle settings, the current chapter, and more.
• Send text messages to the Blu-ray Disc.
• Unlock hidden features on the disc.
• Send audio or video from the iPhone to the Blu-ray Disc.
• Send Blu-ray player commands such as “Fast Forward”.
• Receive URL commands from the Blu-ray Disc such as go to a specific website, or download an iTunes movie or song.

Click here: NetBlender’s website

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