MovieIQ is a brand new feature for BD-Live on web-connected Blu-ray players that lets you pull up all the info on the film you’re playing while you watch. No need to dig through the Internet Movie Database for that name you can’t quite remember anymore!
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BD-Live was billed as an exciting way to experience bonus entertainment on your Blu-ray player, but so far it’s been a damp squib that’d struggle to get the most avid movie fan excited. Well, that could be set to change thanks to a new service bring video on demand to your Blu-ray player.
We’ve heard a lot about BD-Live, or Blu-ray Profile 2.0, and how it’s revolutionising bonus content on a movie disc, but a new app demonstrates that it’s not just about downloading interviews and featurettes onto your Blu-ray player – you can also interact with it using your mobile phone.
Disney is putting everything behind Blu-Ray with the 2-disc Wall-E Blu-Ray release and Finding Nemo arriving on 18 November, while The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian will arrive on Blu-ray on 2 December with an exclusive new feature called Circlevision.
LG has announced the BD300, the first Blu-ray player with the skills to instantly stream video content from US movie service Netflix. Users will be able to queue up their chosen films or TV shows and, once selected, a movie will start playing within 30 seconds.
It’s lunchtime, so grab your eye cutlery and gorge yourself on everything gadget-shaped you’ve missed this morning.
Want a truly future-proof Blu-Ray player? Panasonic’s latest model is exactly what you need. It’s ready equipped with BD-Live features, and one of the few Profile 2 players around.
BD-Live is the super-clever tech behind online interactivity on Blu-Ray, and now we know some of the new tricks it’ll bring to films. Even if the first disc to use the brand new features is Disney’s Sleeping Beauty…