DVD Forum asking BDA to incorporate DVD2 spec into Blu-Ray players

This news was originally posted in DVD2 thread but got lost in the sea of posts, so I am creating a separate thread to relay the news.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20080314220743_DVD_Forum_s_Work_Group_12_Set_to_Communicate_with_Blu_Ray_Disc_Association.html

DVD Forum WG-12(DVD2 working group) is sending a rough DVD2 spec to BDA Forum to obtain BDA feedback on DVD2 spec and to ensure better interoperability between DVD2 and Blu-Ray players.

Can you post the article that states the DVD forum is presenting the DVD2 specs to the BDA now?

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DVD Forum’s Work Group 12 Set to Communicate with Blu-Ray Disc Association.
DVD Forum to Detail Network Connectivity Specifications for DVD

Category: Multimedia

by Anton Shilov

[ 03/14/2008 | 10:07 PM ]

At the 41st DVD Forum Steering Committee meeting several decisions were made with the most significant one being declaration of intention to include Internet connectivity into DVD players and communicate with “other organization” regarding recommendations.

The DVD steering committee approved the scope of the so-called Workgroup-12 (WG-12) on the meeting held in Tokyo, Japan, on the 27th of February, 2008. The WG-12 will “study and specify network applications and related network specification of DVD Forum formats, make recommendations for better interoperability and functionality of network connected DVD Forum specified devices and content. Besides, the WG-12 will “communicate on relevant recommendations with other standard creation organizations”.

Conventional DVDs do not feature any interactive technologies, whereas players cannot connect to the Internet in order to download additional content. Both interactive capabilities and Internet connectivity are available in HD DVD specification as well as Blu-ray disc profile 2.0. Given that it is not hard for content providers to enable Web-downloadable content for DVD, the DVD Forum plans to study whether this feature is relevant at all.

Given that without Toshiba HD DVD format is likely to vanish into oblivion, DVD Forum has to work with the Blu-ray disc association (BDA) to ensure that Web-based technologies were similar on both BD and DVD.

Some observers also pointed out that Toshiba-led DVD Forum may also explore video-on-demand Web-enabled technologies.

Err... I'm still waiting.

Thanks.


But while waiting for the article, the other article from which you quoted said something interesting:

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the DVD Forum plans to study whether this feature is relevant at all.

[Post edited by Skyhawk on Mar 18, 2008]

I just saw this on a web site Skyhawk and the quote he posted is the entire article and I picked up on the same quote that you just pointed out.

[Post edited by tony1569 on Mar 18, 2008]

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I just saw this on a web site Skyhawk and the quote he posted is the entire article.

Don't bother, Skyhawk is a Blu-Ray troll, obviously.

SOme people will be interested in the features. Personally i don't watch audio commentaries and the like on regular DVDs. But I do like PIP and the pop up menus.

NO, his is not a troll. He actually ownes both formats and post informative topics as well.

[Post edited by tony1569 on Mar 18, 2008]

The article doesn't say anything about "DVD Forum asking BDA to incorporate DVD2 spec into Blu-Ray players"... :

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SOme people will be interested in the features. Personally i don't watch audio commentaries and the like on regular DVDs. But I do like PIP and the pop up menus.

I definitely like the popup menus and would welcome them on standard DVDs if I was still buying them (but I'm not unless it's something in the $5 Walmart bin I want to watch). Unfortunately, standard DVD doesn't offer the bandwidth that would allow an additional encoded video in the stream for PiP. Bandwidth is just a limitation of the format, and one which would also limit the functionality of HDi on standard DVD if it were ever adopted. Space of course is an additional factor.