Blu-ray Disc Specification Change, Intimidate Present Players
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Blu-ray Disc Java is going to arrive this season. This is definitely good news but at the same time it is incompatible with today’s machines. The only advice that experts are giving is to just wait and watch the emergence of victor. The immediate consumers of the product should be watchful that it being advanced could come with a heavy price tag and with a risk of bugs or full software and hardware obsolescence.
The associates of Blu-ray Disc association has given an authorization that all the players of format that will be released after 31st of October, they all are required to stick to a definite set of feature that is currently not available on the latest hardware. There is a programming language called BD Java, which is specifically for Blu-ray players. It is expected that all the Blu-ray players will be supporting BD Java after the fall date. This programming language is mainly used to distribute the picture in picture for comments in-movie and for giving some special features.
The requirements of Blu-ray player and specifications of BD-Java have faced gradual change from time to time, due to which player manufacturers had to face healthy amount of misery. The latest requirements and specifications will make it sure that all the new series of Blu-ray players that will be manufactured after October will be having full capabilities of BD-Java, including picture in picture and many more.
The most recent adopters of this device may find it pretty inconvenient to use a hardware that supports media with the BD Java software. This can be taken as a bad news for early consumers of this product, but this inconvenience will not stop them from becoming the first ones from playing the future Blu-ray movies. The early adopters may not be able to use the complete range of interactive features that are available on titles of future Blu-ray Disc.
According to Philips VP Marty Gorton, future products of Blu-ray might be including some supplementary features like picture in picture. Regardless of the fact that the first-generation hardware offers these new features or not, the discs will still continue to play.
Blu- ray players, unlike the standard HD DVD players, do not require Ethernet ports for updating the firmware. There are more chances of getting complaints from the permitted format of Blu-ray machines.
With the addition of BD Java, the new Blu-ray player is also required to have a minimum of 256MB memory for storage. For the network users, 1GB memory is must so as to support the Web downloads.