Today, Los Angeles-based disc producer Giant Interactive is officially launching BD-Connect, a BD-Live application that allows for rapid loading, streaming and downloading, as well as user-generated quizzes, trivia, RSS feeds, photo galleries, marketing banners, menu widgets and synchronized movie viewing.
BD-Connect had already been used in 400 European Blu-ray releases, under the name dynamicHD.
So far, BD-Connect has been implemented in Paramount's 'CSI' (
First and
Ninth Seasons), where it offers access to footage from forensics conferences, and 'Star Trek: The Original Series'.
Giant Interactive president Jeff Stabenau said that BD-Connect also works “seamlessly” with BD Live community Web sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as iPhone applications. "Right now a lot of these BD Live solutions, at least those so far, have enhanced just one specific title," Stabenau said. "That makes it limited. … Ours, out of the box, works."