RSSJava to be Used in Blu-ray DVD Players
By Nate Mook | Published June 29, 2005, 11:20 AM
Next generation Blu-ray DVD players will ship with built-in support for Sun Microsystem's Java, which will be used for interactivity features. The announcement was made at Sun's JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Tuesday and could prove a big win for the technology that has largely remained Web-based.
All interactive features including menus, network services and games will be Java-based, according to Yasushi Nishimura, director of Panasonic's Research and Development Company of America.
"The Blu-ray Disc Association, the standards body for the format, has decided it will adopt Java for the interactivity standards," said Nishimura. "This means that all Blu-ray Disc player devices will be shipped equipped with Java."
Although Java was initially designed with consumer electronics in mind, Sun's technology has found little success in the mainstream market compared to its adoption in the enterprise. In order to spur further Java use, Sun has developed three new licenses to provide developers with access to Java source.
Java in Blu-ray means next-generation DVD players could have advanced network capabilities, such as the ability to download added content from the Internet.
But despite backing from Blu-ray, Java's adoption in the living room is far from shored up. A competing high-definition DVD standard, known as HD-DVD and backed by Toshiba, will reach the market before Sony-developed Blu-ray.
Java will allow much better menus and interactivity. While it could be used for annoying purposes, the studios won't if it means people won't buy their movies, so I don't think it means a bunch of annoying popups.
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|Java buyilt into Blue Ray huh.....
I wonder if this means all those Java online games will be playable on the PS3 when it comes out.. It is going tobe using BlueRay..
I remember using Java stuff on my Dreamcast, and the PS3 would actully have some power to process alot of neat Java stuff..
It is just a thought...
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|what if you don't want to connect to the internet?
for example, you're gonna watch it in your grandma's house back in the deepest part of the country, you can't watch the movie?
so to prevent piracy?
what the... lousy companies calling me a pirate? i'll stick with DVD and see whether HD-DVD will be a better alternative.
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|And you'll also be streamed some clips that weren't released on DVD, aswell as an "If you liked the movie, you might enjoy watching these!" ad.
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|Don't forget the popups.
I wasn’t sure which was better, now I know. I’ll go with HD-DVD thank you very much!
I’ve always hated Java.
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|Java isn't bad - just the way its used. Just imagine a game that had a java interpreter built-in, and had an editor that compiled to java. It'd be ultra-fast scripting. You could code whatever you want inside it - your own game even.
I think based on how things are used, we can all agree flash is worse, or atleast "more annoying".
Flash ads don't like my Asus SmartDoctor(videocard thing), so it pops up about every 15 seconds going *WARNING, YOUR VIDEOCARD IS RECEIVING 28VOLTS!!!*, or some other random number. *WARNING, YOUR VIDEOCARD IS RUNNING AT 293C!!!"
Irritating how flash disrupts...you know, your OS.
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|I see this as a wrong move. Watching a movie and downloading advertisements from the Internet. Ads are bad news. Having Java support is fine, but now anyone can write code to execute it while watching a movie spells disaster to me. A reason to not hook your media up to the internet once the Blue-ray is available. Someone always takes a great idea and hooks on bad practice with it.
"Warning! Before watching this video, we need to download special content from the internet." Instead of a "preview" you will get a coke commerical intended for the specific audience.
Like what Congress does to Bill's we are going to have the Movie Industry to do DVD's.
Blue-ray.........go-away! Java is an old technology trying to increase its market share by utilizing new tricks and bundling with others. They've opened their source code to anyone.
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|Completely agree!
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|following the coke commercial WARNING you must also be conected to the internet to be streamed some segments of the movie to help prevent piracy brought to you by youy local MPAA.
For some reason i can actualy see this happening
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|I agree w/ one & all here-- though i suppose adware may become more palatable once we enjoy 100mb/1gb bandwidth & computers with arrays of multiple Cell processors & ramsticks...
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