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NHL Blu-ray disc uses dynamicHD BD-Live Technology
NHL's "2010 Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup Championship" Blu-ray disc uses dynamicHD BD-Live Technology.
The National Hockey League Blu-ray disc uses BD-Connect, a technology platform that Giant Interactive markets to North American content owners under an exclusive partnership with European service provider ...Imagion AG. The NHL Blu-ray disc will deliver downloadable content and additional bonus features, including dynamically updated interviews from the hockey team's Blackhawks TV and news from the league. According to features developer Giant Interactive, the title marks the first use of BD-Live among major sports leagues. The disc, in stores today, is also the NHL's first Blu-ray release.
U2 Blu-ray with dynamicHD BD-Live
U2's first Blu-ray, released on June 4th, „360° At The Rose Bowl" will be kept up-to-date with the BD-Live solution dynamicHD. The content of all discs worldwide will be updated centralized in different languages using Imagion's solution. "We are very proud that we could enthuse a partner like U2 for our solution. The combination of creative concept, technical possibilities and above all the flexibility and simple usage of the system have convinced the management - we think that together with the Authoring Studio "The Pavement" from London we have created a real Fan-Item." Says Andreas Thran, CEO Imagion. Planned are, amongst other features, Live-Streams of Videos and entire songs of different concerts of the ongoing tour via BD-Live.
Leading BD-Live solution available in United States
NEW YORK - Giant Interactive, a leading creator in Blu-ray, DVD, creative content and interactive media services, in exclusive partnership with Imagion AG, Europe's leading BD-Live service provider, announced today the North American availability of BD-ConnectTM, the world's most widely used BD-Live solution. The flexible, easy to use gateway to content and customers is the easiest BD-Live technology to implement, is pre-configured with more features than competing solutions and ready to go.
"Blu-ray is well on its way to becoming DVD's successor, and in addition to amazing high definition video and audio, one of the great features of the format is web interactivity," noted Jeff Stabenau, President, Giant Interactive. "BD-Connect offers the richest, most powerful BD-Live experience for consumers and content providers today."
Already featured on more than 400 titles in Europe as dynamicHD, and available in North America exclusively through Giant, BD-Connect software for adding robust web-connected interactive fea¬tures to Blu-ray Discs is in use on more Blu-ray titles than any other BD Live platform in the world. The technology is already a hit with European consumers and content producers, and it arrives in North America as a compelling and thoroughly proven gateway to customers and content, that is easy to implement, pre-configured with rich features, fast, flexible and ready to go. BD-Connect has a highly scalable architecture with Akamai edge server content delivery, allowing for rapid loading of geo-targeted BD-Live components including full screen progressive streaming video, HD downloads, synched movie viewing experiences, user generated quizzes, trivia tracks, photo galleries, marketing banners, RSS feeds and menu widgets.
BD-Connect works seamlessly with community-driven BD-Live web sites (such as cbs-bdlive.com, Twitter and Facebook) and utilizes a highly scalable architecture with Akamai edge server content de¬livery, allowing for rapid loading of BD-Live components and full screen progressive streaming video. Other key features of BD-Connect include synched movie viewing experiences, user generated quiz¬zes, trivia tracks and photo galleries, iPhone applications, live event downloads, marketing banners, RSS feeds, menu widgets and geo-targeting for seamless content delivery by region or country.
BD-Connect has also enjoyed critical acclaim from the Blu-ray community. Featured on Paramount Home Entertainment's "Star Trek The Original Series" and "CSI" box sets, HighDefDigest.com called the technology "...one of the most useful and best implemented BD-Live features I've used to date," while High-Def Disc News praised the "very sleek and fast interface," and EngadgetHD declared "These implementations so far have been some of the best examples of the potential BD-Live holds that we keep hearing about, but rarely see."
BD-Connect is currently featured on CBS/Paramount Home Entertainment's recently released "CSI" Blu-ray release. The release, which takes users to criminology and forensics conferences in Denver and Las Vegas via BD-Live, showing how easily targeted content can be delivered to consumers with this platform, is being spotlighted this week at the media industry confab Blu-Con 2.0 in Los Angeles.
About Giant Interactive
Giant Interactive is a foremost provider of creative and technical digital media services for the world's top Home Entertainment content owners and distributors. Through offices in Los Angeles, New York and Denver, as well as worldwide strategic partnerships, Giant delivers specialized services for DVD and Blu-ray authoring; original content production for web, value-added and TV; creative design, inter¬active TV applications, BD Live development and hosting, and java programming. Since its founding in 2005, Giant Interactive has been recognized numerous times with industry awards and accolades for superior creativity and expertise. In 2009 the company was recognized with Home Media Maga¬zine's "Best Collection/Multi-Disc Set" and "DVD of the Year" awards for its design and authoring work on the 28 disc, 86 episode presentation of "The Sopranos: The Complete Collection".
For more information about Giant Interactive or BD-Connect:
http://www.giant-interactive.com/
http://www.bd-connect.com/
