Posted Sep 03, 2006 at 10:07AM by Remi M. Listed in: News Tags: Disney, Sony, Walt Disney, Berlin, TheProfessor, Sun Microsystems
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From the looks of it, Blu-ray is getting all the support it needs...and maybe even more. Recently, the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) announced that Sun Microsystems will join their board. Why? Sun's Java powers the interactivity of Blu-ray, so it would be more surprising if they weren't given that illustrious seat in the BDA board. Among Sun's future seatmates in the boardroom are Apple, Sony Corporation, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures, Samsung among many other big time companies.

In the still-running Berlin IFA, it seems that Blu-ray is gaining more support compared to its adversary, HD-DVD. Mike Dunn, President of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, announced a roster of 8 films that will be released on Blu-ray, including Ridley Scott's Holy Wars epic movie, Kingdom of Heaven (Director's cut). The title boasts of extensive use of Java-driven interactivity, including a video game that uses scenes from the film.

On a more personal note, we would like to thank TheProfessor for the tip.


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   by hush404 - 2006-09-03
 » woo!

Even more companies to make a medium great.

   by pythn2005 (Unregistered) - 2006-09-03
 » got the main peeps

damn they got disney and that fox home thingy i see that fox logo everywhere man they got it made pretty much

   by contrAss (Unregistered) - 2006-09-03
 » poor from importing

screw them man, with the addition of shared region coding as asia, we can get them kick ass asian films in high def. and maybe them kick ass soaps too...

   by Kris_09 - 2006-09-03
 » Sweet

HD-DVD....pff screw that bluray all the way

   by jim (Unregistered) - 2006-09-03
 » good news for ps3 as well

because it looks more andt more that blu-ray wil replace DVD thats exly what sony want wy buildt it in da ps3 da first place andt if it blu-ray is gonna replace DVD or HD-DVD than it wil be over for MS 360xobx 1 jaar after ps3 i mean secondt gen games ar gonna be 50gb dual blu-ray ps2 was first cd-rom after good jaar most games where on dvd-rom we can see da same this gen .SONY is smart TGS WILL bE BIG SHOW FOR PS3

   by Vecha - 2006-09-03
 » lol...

"screw them man, with the addition of shared region coding as asia, we can get them kick ass asian films in high def. and maybe them kick ass soaps too..."

kick ass soaps? I love asian soap operas....but calling them "kick ass".....funny..lol

   by hmm (Unregistered) - 2006-09-03
 » so

is it a gaming machine? or a movie player? because they're trying to get more movies out for it on br than games...

   by stfu (Unregistered) - 2006-09-03
 » to # 7, did u even read the article hmm!?

one word.. sad...

wat has games got to do with this article? wat gaming machine? fanboy..

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   by hmm (Unregistered) - 2006-09-03
 » ha

It's okay man. It's okay

   by 8stfu (Unregistered) - 2006-09-04
 » #8

ummm to bad your the sad one. Seeing that this post is IN the PS3 forum I can only assume that this little piece of info is about the PS3 "movie player" seeing that the line up of br movies are getting larger and the line up of ps3 games that are coming out is getting smaller. Just like the psp there's still more than twice as the amount of umd movies out there then umd games....



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