You make some great points, the problem is that studios say that BDJ authoring tools are not "mature". The number of Blu-ray titles with interactive content can be counted on one hand while HD DVD has 4 times that number.
If you read the site you know I am a BDA proponent, some readers even call me Ben "Blu-ray" Drawbaugh. But I am disappointed with the lack of interactive content on Blu-ray and when the studios tell me it's because of the authoring tools for BDJ, I believe them.
I guess it's not a big surprise since the number one Java IDE isn't made by Sun, maybe someone should take Eclipse and modify it to work with BDJ.
Authoring tools. Yes, this is something I had not considered. A platform (BDJ) may not be at fault, but I agree that authoring tools could damage it significantly. That is truely sad, since I would think it would be fairly easy to provide support for BDJ in existing Java IDE's. I'm sure you know, but for others benefit - IDE's for Java have been the most sophisticated, intelligent and productive development tools over any other language IDE for some time now.
I would take some exception to calling Eclipse the number one Java IDE though. ;-) It might be the number one *free* Java IDE, but my personal favourite is Intelli-J. If you get a chance, you should try it some time!
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You make some great points, the problem is that studios say that BDJ authoring tools are not "mature". The number of Blu-ray titles with interactive content can be counted on one hand while HD DVD has 4 times that number.
If you read the site you know I am a BDA proponent, some readers even call me Ben "Blu-ray" Drawbaugh. But I am disappointed with the lack of interactive content on Blu-ray and when the studios tell me it's because of the authoring tools for BDJ, I believe them.
I guess it's not a big surprise since the number one Java IDE isn't made by Sun, maybe someone should take Eclipse and modify it to work with BDJ.
Authoring tools. Yes, this is something I had not considered. A platform (BDJ) may not be at fault, but I agree that authoring tools could damage it significantly. That is truely sad, since I would think it would be fairly easy to provide support for BDJ in existing Java IDE's. I'm sure you know, but for others benefit - IDE's for Java have been the most sophisticated, intelligent and productive development tools over any other language IDE for some time now.
I would take some exception to calling Eclipse the number one Java IDE though. ;-) It might be the number one *free* Java IDE, but my personal favourite is Intelli-J. If you get a chance, you should try it some time!
Sonic are intending their BDJ solution to work with Eclipse. I was told this by a Sonic employee.