Blu-ray player profiles explained in detail - Page 10

Hello,

Is there a 3.0 Profile yet?

Thanks

Hi. I have long been waiting for subtitles to be downloadable via profile 2.0 discs and players. It seems that the first one has arrived! German audio tracks and subtitles are downloadable via BD-live on the German version of "The Orphanage".

I hope this is only the beginning. My dream is to be able to add Greek subtitles to all the 2.0 BDs that ship without, and I would not mind paying extra for that.

The link for the German version is here: http://www.imagion.de/en/news/news-a...r-bd-live.html

Is there a Profile 2.0 Blu-ray player that supports source direct video resolution? I'm interested in this because I want a 2.0 profile player, but also have an external scaler so I don't want any DVD upconversion on resolution. Thank you.

Hi, I am hoping for a bit more clarification about downloading subtitles, and this is the only place to ask... The Bourne Identity Trilogy has been announced for Blu-ray as 3 BD-live titles in a Jan 09 boxed set. To me the offered extras seem like slim pickings.

OK, but in the future can alternative subtitles etc. be downloaded for this BD or is there a danger the original BD-live menu is going to be stuck with the launched package? To clarify, I am asking if anyone has seen any BD-live menu that has been changed to allow for additional language content. I have not so far.

Please excuse me if I seem to be hammering on about subs but I believe it's a great part of Blu-ray's future interactivity and I would be delighted if just a fraction of my enthusiasm gets through to people who make decisions about such things.

ahh...this is a great post.....i like how everything was broken down. I understand better

Thank you for your thoughts. I am just one person that craves additional subtitles, and I hope there are many more out there like me. It would make a disc much more versatile and valuable IMO. I wouldn't mind at all paying a Euro or something like 5% of a BD's value, for the subs I want. I know that the captioning process is time consuming, but it's a one-time expense for each dialect, and the studio machinery does not have to be as expensive as audio or video tracks, of course. I hope there is a market...

I think we should not just be looking to the studios for alternate language subtitles.

I've seen a little bit of this done already(sourced by people not connected with the studioes) for standard def stuff. I recently watched a Chinese movie (In The Heat Of The Sun) in DIVX format.

And it had English subtitling that I know did not come from the studio. The subtitle file was a separate file. I burned it on to the disk.

Anyway, I would think the same thing will happen slowly over time with Blu-Ray titles. Subtitles will tend to be come available in alternate languages when:

1. There is some demand from viewers (for some of the larger language groups, I presume)
2. There are fans of the film who understand the original language and have/take time to subtitle translations of it

It sounds like BlueRay 2.0 Profile is what I should be looking for to one day (I'm sure it's going to be a while) download and use alternate language subtitling?

I have the BDP-S350 and want to add a usb flash drive.

How many gigs should i get when i buy one?

I have a Memorex blu ray player that died and I need to return. The feature I really liked was the usb port in the front allowing you to show movies and pictures from a flash drive or an external hard drive. Anyone know what other players have this feature? PS3?

The PS3 will do that and more. The different photo viewing modes are spectacular and are full 1080p resolution. My photos look amazing on my 52" LCD via the PS3.

The PS3 will also recognize a Windows Media Server that could be on your wireless or wired network. So, if you have photos on your computer hard drive, you could have the Windows Media Player recognize the folder that contains the photos, then you could view your photos that are sitting on your computer using your PS3. So, basically, you're setting up a media server for free. You probably already have the equipment to do it (minus the PS3 of course) and it's pretty easy to set up. This is true with photos, audio and video. It "streams" the media, wirelessly, from the PC to the PS3.

To take it one step further, if you also get a PSP, you can access your PS3 from anywhere in the world that has WiFi and access your media that's sitting on your PC at home. The PSP will even turn the PS3 on and off so it doesn't have to stay on when you're not at home. Pretty sweet. Instead of pulling out my wallet to show photos of my kids, I pull out my PSP and show pictures that are on my home PC. It freaks people out. This also works for video and audio. Pretty amazing technology. Kind of like SlingBox.

Good luck and let me know if you have any issues setting it up.

Great Reference Material (Official Sony Documentation):

• Viewing Photos on the PS3 Hard Drive
• Viewing Photos using Storage Media
• Viewing Photos using a USB Device
• Viewing Photos using Blu-Ray discs, CDs, or DVDs
• How to access your Media Server using the PS3
• Setting up Remote Play between the PSP and the PS3

Thanks I wonder if one can do this on a Mac?

This is a bit off topic so I'll make this my last post regarding this. PM me for any more information.

TwonkyMedia is working on a program called TwonkyMedia manager for for a Mac, but you can get it right now in something called TwonkyMedia server. It's the same thing, just without a graphical user interface.

I use NullRiver's MediaLink, which is a Mac DLNA server expressly targeting the PS3 (but works with other devices as well). Works very nicely for me.

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