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'BD Touch' headed to smartphones

19 April 2009 13:24 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 3 comments

Beginning next week, BluFocus and NetBlender will launch a mobile phone app for smartphones that will allow Blu-ray Disc owners to transfer extra features from the disc directly to their phones.

The app, dubbed BD Touch 2.0, will be shown off next week at the NAB conference, added CEO Paulette E. Pantoja.

BD Touch 2.0 will be free in the App Store and other application stores and will work on Apple�s iPhone and iPod Touch, the Palm Pre, Google's Android platform and BlackBerry phones.

With the app installed, users can "transfer downloadable content and interactive features from their Blu-ray Disc to their phone. The phones also can be used as a remote control for a compatible Blu-ray player."

Pantoja adds that BD Touch capability will be a very easy for Blu-ray developers to add to discs in the future. �It�s just one line of code they have to put in,� Pantoja notes. �We made it extremely, extremely simple.�

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beanos66 (Junior Member) 19 April 2009 19:41
using my iphone as a ps3 controller would be cool BUT! I predict apple will ban that app. [ + quote]
vyze (Newbie) 19 April 2009 22:36
*Originally posted by beanos66:* using my iphone as a ps3 controller would be cool BUT! I predict apple will ban that app. using my PSP to control my iPhone and make skype calls would be cool BUT! I predict that Sony would ban that app. :D [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 19 April 2009 22:37
beanos66 (Junior Member) 20 April 2009 4:47
*Quote:* *Originally posted by beanos66:* using my iphone as a ps3 controller would be cool BUT! I predict apple will ban that app. using my PSP to control my iPhone and make skype calls would be cool BUT! I predict that Sony would ban that app. :D you already can use your psp to make skype calls but if you want connect your psp to iphone to make skype calls using 3G then apple banned that :D :D [ + quote]