X-Files: I Want To Believe is Fox's first BD-Live title
By Darren Murph 
posted September 20th 2008 4:01AM
posted September 20th 2008 4:01AM
If you plunked down the extra coin to get yourself a BD-Live-enabled deck, you can look forward to having one more BD-Live-enabled title to enjoy come December. Fox Home Entertainment has announced that its very first BD-Live enhanced film will be The X-Files: I Want To Believe, which will take advantage of the web-connected functionality with "exclusive features, games, additional content and connectivity to other BD-Live users and X-Files fans nationwide." The X-Files Dossier will allow users to "create their own Special Agent avatar that can browse through Agent Dakota Whitney's case files on clairvoyance and post their own notes and theories to her files online and download other profiles directly to their BD player memory files." Fun, right? Make your choice on 12/2 when it hits shelves (with Digital Copy, no less) for $39.99 MSRP.
I want to care. I just can't.
I want to believe that price is way too high for a movie.
I want to believe no one in their right mind would pay MSRP for any Blu-ray title instead of buying online.
Okay, how is Fox going to mess up this BD? Excessive DNR? Yet another firmware update required prior to viewing? Maybe the BD live feature will require too much bandwidth and even then have back end issues?
Rental at best.
Well, I do think this feature is the kind of thing that will actually get BD-Live used, and is the kind of thing movie/internet fans in the majority would enjoy more than a cheap and cheesy game.
I am into gaming so maybe I'm harsher on the cheesy games, but let's face it, social networking and internet chat is big, big, big, and it would have a fairly low upkeep cost if a studio just made a site for all their movies and made an interactive blog/wiki for each release on that site.
It was probably this or that 2D spy vs spy elevator game.