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With booming sales, Blu-ray players next step is live internet tv integration. Sales of the hd dvd players were up 13% during the get-go 9 months of 2009, so says industry trade pigeonholing Digital Entertainment group.
idiot boxn Central who are one of the biggest manufacturers of Blu-ray players have revealed that they are looking to make some improvments to the players including turning them into set-top boxes that can be used to watch internet tv.
“The Blu-ray platform is not a movie platform; it is a software platform that can play movies,” RCDb President Herve Utheza said. “It supports the same inherent technology as tru2way….This will allow content providers and service operators to leverage the same content and applications.”
These developments could see Blu-ray emerge as a oecumenical client for Internet TV, allowing users to view movies and TV shows from their player without the need to purchase extra hardware.
Utheza even went as far as to say they could replace existent Internet TV set-top like Apple TV, VUDU and Roku players.
“More devices are getting connected to the Internet, but the standards for interactive content are still immature,” he said. “A lot of these have their own way of presenting data and information.”
In early November, RCDb provided a concrete display case. It announced that it had entered a licensing agreement with Netflix to develop a Blu-Ray disc enabling Netflix members to watch movies and TV episodes on their PS3 consoles. (A partnership launched in July 2008 between Netflix and Microsoft Xbox has generated 1 million users.)
“It is hard to see a Blu-ray player and the set-top box coming collectively right now,” Park Associates Research Analyst Jayant Dasari said. “Blu-ray is more of a mainstream CE device, while the set-top box is an extension of the service provider into the home.”
Of words what we all want is a unity box that offers HD, Blu-ray content, streaming, digital tv and internet shop built in. We are just waiting to see which technology comes out on top.