Including BD-Live on your Blu-ray projects provides the best of both worlds: On the one hand, it is a physical media, something that movie enthusiasts collect, show off to their friends and keep returning to, again and again. On the other hand, BD-Live offers the possibility to connect to online media.
With BD-Live, any content can easily be updated and kept fresh: Any video or audio file, pictures, text and graphics can be sent to any user by inserting the disc into a BD-Live player. The user will not see any difference between the material on the disc and the updated files sent via BD-Live. So any updates will not interfere with the viewer experience, it will even make it better as the viewer will always see new trailers, new extras, new subtitles.
Furthermore, discs can not only be easily updated with new content but there is also a channel back to the content owner. BD-Live can be used to combine films and other material on the disc with all the services that people love on the Internet. By adding community features, users can stay in touch with their friends whilst watching movies, so the social event of visiting a cinema can be delivered to the sofa at home.
BD-Live is also a powerful marketing tool for content owners to create a closer relationship with their consumer audience.
BD-Live Options Include
- Video on Demand - A new film every day!
- Bookmark Sharing - Favourite scenes?
- Movie info Browser - What is that actor’s name?
- Gaming - Multi-player functions
- BD Remote - Connect mobile devices to the movie!
- IPhone App - Get your MovieApp onto the iPhone!
- Location Info - Where in the world are you?
- Viewer Landscape - Who’s watching with you?
- Weather info - What’s the weather outside my film?
- Facebook - Share with my friends
- Twitter Feeds - Let’s tweet how much I love this film
- Polling - Harness the power of user-generated content
- RSS Feed - What’s the news?
- Advertising - A brand-new way of Advertising!
- Storefront - Sofa Shopping
- Mobile Distribution - That’s my new Ringtone!
- Data Mining - Learn about your Users