Sonic Solutions delivers BD-J tools for the creative set
If you've been left disappointed by the BD-J interactive features on Blu-ray discs, you're not alone -- all of that Java power is great, but the production tools leave it in the hands of programmers rather than artists. Sonic Solutions has introduced two applications to help keep the creative side of the house a little closer to the final product: BD Fusion is based on Clickstream's Multimedia Fusion game development environment and BD-J Converter converts Flash animations into Java code for use in BD-J projects. Now we'd be the first to say that rich BD-J features are pretty far down on our own wishlist for Blu-ray, but lowering the barrier to producing BD-J features that are actually interesting (even for kids) can't hurt, right?






















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
J.Goodwin @ Sep 18th 2008 4:41PM
Alien Hominid for BD2.0 confirmed.
Evan @ Sep 19th 2008 9:26AM
BD-J would be a good way to deliver Japanese visual novel and eroge games. Several of these games have been ported to the PS2 but were censored in the process. BD-J would allow these games to be played on the PS3 without any censorship. Also, Blu-Ray would better protection against piracy than releasing the games for PC.