My Eye Media enters Blu-ray quality control arena with Blu-Qual
By Darren Murph 
posted Feb 23rd 2008 11:24PM
posted Feb 23rd 2008 11:24PM
After seeing a wave of faulty Blu-ray Discs a few months back, we've heard relatively little about further mishaps. Still, that's not stopping firms from hoping in the quickly-expanding quality control arena. On the docket today is My Eye Media, which is broadening its service portfolio with Blu-Qual, a BD testing solution "designed to analyze the complexities" of the format. More specifically, it's out to "identify impairments, artifacts and technical anomalies much earlier in the production process than traditional optical media testing methodologies have allowed," and while you'll likely never know what titles it touches, we're all for making sure shipping products work as advertised.
Excellent. You can never have to much quality control
perhaps they should add HDi to the Blu Ray spec to minimize "further mishaps"
Please tell me how HDi is going to stop Warner packing HD-DVD discs in BD packages or video framing issues? Check the links from the article.
The issue is that with so many players from so many manufacturers and so many discs from so many distributors, there are bound to be edge cases. Proper quality control is an essential part of the process for hardware and software to ensure strict adherence to the spec and to workaround known issues where possible.
HDi wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference to the issue. Authoring tools in general might make some difference if they can generate code which avoids issues as and when they are discovered.
"HDi wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference to the issue"
If it would decrease the load times and the clunky menus....I'm all for HDi. Come on Java, I know you can do better. Java 2.0 better be more than an online feature update, or I'm going to try to cram my HD DVD add-on into my Blu-ray player do to rage. You better get it right, I don't want to have to buy another player for 400+.
HDi uses interpreted JavaScript and parsed XML. I don't think you can emphatically claim it is "faster", especially as many Toshiba HD DVD players have been criticized for being slow too. Speed (or lack thereof) is probably more a symptom of the hardware, not the software. A number of BD players such as the PS3 and DMP-BD30K are recognized as being quite fast and the chances are that future versions will get better.