BD Touch 2.0: Blu-ray Application For BlackBerry Coming Soon

Looks like NetBlender is planning on bringing a Blu-ray application for BlackBerry out soon. It will let you interact with your Blu-ray player over Wi-Fi from your BlackBerry. Blu-ray has promised extra features from the get-go but has failed to deliver. Until now all they have offered is better quality video which most people don’t even have a TV capable of viewing. Blu-ray live did promise to bring some extra features and BD Touch seems to be one of them.

NOTE: The main issue I see with BD Touch is that it is coming from a third party so studio’s and device makers will have to build their functionality into their players or their discs from what I can tell. You also would need a Profile 2.0 player which right now only includes the PS3… So this may be more of a dream.

More details at this link

Features include:

• Transfer media from Blu-ray player to handheld device
• Remote control – control movie playback using handheld device
• Keyboard – use handheld device keyboard to enter data to player
• Create games based on title that interact with handheld device
• Multiple handheld devices can integrate with a single BD disc
• simultaneously – multi-player games!

BD Touch enables movie studios to extend their content to a variety of entertainment platforms that compliment each other by taking advantage of each platform’s strengths.

• Provides keyboard-like input device
• Devices automatically connect
• Two-way high speed data transfer
• Self contained library for content creators to use in their BD-J Titles
• Small footprint, so it works 100% of the time
• Utilizes industry standards to continually grow as new BD technologies are introduced
• Well-defined API allows developers and content creators to work independently to build robust interactive mobile applications

Easy Implementation and Connection

• Easy to implement onto a BD-J Blu-ray Title or Blu-ray Player. BD Touch requires a BD-Live (Profile 2.0) Blu-ray Player, a wireless router on the network, a wi-fi enabled device supporting J2ME, and BD Touch installed!