Netblender has announced a new software for the iPhone and iPod Touch that that connects these Apple devices with Blu-ray Disc players that are BD Live compatible.
This SDK, called BD Touch, allows an iPhone or an iPod Touch to become a remote control for the PlayStation 3 or any other BD Live compatible player. That is one of the many potential applications of BD Touch, which can also take advantage of all of the iPhone’s interactive capabilities such as geo location, 3D sensors and QWERTY keyboard. Video, audio, text, and player commands can be transferred via the connection.
Some implementations of BD Touch will include:
- Pushing digital copies of movies to an iPhone from the Blu-ray disc menu.
- Automatically cataloguing a viewer’s Blu-ray disc collection and providing movie suggestions
- Updating and managing a viewer’s rental queue
- Displaying trivia and extra information about a movie in sync with the movie’s playback
- Turning existing Blu-ray discs into games that use the iPhone as the game controller
- Viewing fan-created content in sync with the disc
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