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| Friday, April 4, 2008 |
PS3 BD-Live Blu-ray Impressions With Walk Hard
April 03, 2008
Sony Computer Entertainment rolled out Blu-ray Profile 2.0 to Playstation 3 consoles via the latest firmware update late last week in a swift move to finalize Blu-ray’s features. Downloading and installing the update gave PS3 the immediate means to view BD-Live content, i.e. access online content through select BD-Live enable Blu-ray titles. The only catch: no BD-Live enabled titles had hit the street.
Thanks to our friends at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, I now possess a pre-release copy of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story on Blu-ray. Walk Hard is one of two April 8 Blu-ray titles that will feature BD-Live access, the other being The 6th Day. You’d never know Walk Hard was BD-Live enabled by looking at it as there’s no mention of the technology on the front or back cover art. But I knew what the disc was packing and was eager to see if the final product was worth the hype.
Accessing BD-Live on Walk Hard is as simple as selecting special features from disc one’s main menu, then selecting BD-Live. Doing so turns the screen black momentarily, then brings up a red loading bar that ironically is eaten by blu(e) as the BD-Live menu is accessed. Either this analogy of Blu-ray eating HD DVD is a freaky coincidence or someone on the development team has a twisted sense of humor.
Total load time for the BD-Live menu to appear is roughly 4 minutes on my high-speed DSL connection. Subsequent visits cut that time down to under 1 minute give or take a few seconds. That’s still an eternity to wait for a menu in this age of "gotta have it now" home entertainment, much less the content behind it.
The BD-Live menu includes only Sony Pictures content, headlined by a trio of Derek Stone (Bill Hader) featurettes, Royal Jelly, Mulatto, and Midget Man, where he fills the shoes of a "Coxologist" and breaks down the three Dewey songs. Other available downloads include six Blu-ray trailers in standard or high-def: Untraceable, Dragon Wars, First Sunday, Resident Evil Extinction, Men in Black (not yet announced, but will be *very* soon), and Gattaca, along with three theatrical trailers
Source: The ManRoomLabels: BD-Live, Blu-ray, PlayStation 3, PS3, Sony |
posted by Perimbean @ Friday, April 04, 2008
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