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Studios, please listen and stop hapring this BD Live crap!]]>Jan 28th 2009 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/Jan 28th 2009 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/Jan 28th 2009 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/Jan 27th 2009 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/Jan 27th 2009 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/
The reason it sucks so often is because it actually takes commitment, time and talent to make something as worthwhile as the movie to which its being attached. Studios are rarely willing to devote the time and money necessary to make BD live truly shine.

So it ends up being crap filler.]]>Jan 27th 2009 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/Jan 27th 2009 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/Jan 28th 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/Jan 27th 2009 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/]]>Jan 27th 2009 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/Jan 27th 2009 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/Jan 27th 2009 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/Jan 28th 2009 12:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/Jan 28th 2009 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/
Since BD-J is 95% the same as Tru2Way you might even see client apps that run on Tru2Way or BD-J. What would help BD-Live a lot is if a profile 2.1 (for example) defined the manner in which BD-J apps (xlets) could be downloaded and invoked without a disk being inserted. Then you wouldn't need to have Netflix baked into the firmware because the user could just go download it.]]>Jan 28th 2009 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/
Movie previews i can get anywhere...]]>Jan 28th 2009 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/
In theory AC is a great idea. The idea isn't "We'll let you chat to people who are also watching the movie" or "We'll bung a bunch of movies on the web as a special extra", those were simply things you could do as a side effect. The idea was to create an integrated infrastructure that was medium transparent, thus allowing users to buy discs, buy or rent downloads, stream other content, and do this via both offline and online web-style pages.

Unfortunately it was pushed as a feature before the rest of the infrastructure (HD DVD players capable of local storage or disc burning), and so ended up being a collection of nice features that were terribly easy to abuse.

And, somehow, BD Live ended up being a clone of that.]]>Jan 28th 2009 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/
Personally I buy/rent a disc when I want to see a movie. I do not think, "Hey, maybe I can also play some crappy games and hear the "Assistant Color Editor's comments".]]>Jan 28th 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/
If at least they took stuff off of the disk to use the space better that would be something. But they just take it off so that you have to get it from the internet for no reason. Just silly right now.

I like Sony trailers etc but Universals streaming trailers are horrible. Although Universals portal looks the nicest.]]>Jan 28th 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/Jan 28th 2009 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/will-bd-live-finally-shine-in-2009/Jan 28th 2009 2:02PM