BluFocus beefs up Blu-ray control labs with BD-J / THX certification
At the front end of this year, we heard that BluFocus was getting a facility going to help studios pumping out Blu-ray Discs to the adoring public make sure no terrible backlashes occurred. Now, the quality assurance specialists are offering up two more critical certifications: THX and BD-Java. What does this mean for you? Hopefully nothing that you can tell, but it's not like we're complaining about one more layer of scrutiny before a flick hits the open market.
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WebDev511 @ Oct 16th 2008 1:37AM
Good thing they helped Paramount avoid issues with Iron Man and Universal side step issues with Hulk. Don't know if the latter was rooted in software or replication, but sure would be nice to have some QC BEFORE the shrink wrap goes on.
At least we're not seeing stuff like some of the first laser discs. I saw one LD that had a bug in the plastic. Needless to say it caused a read error.
Mark @ Oct 16th 2008 6:47AM
Paramounts issues were self inflicted and wouldn't have been found by testing the disk. If you're going to make a disc that without consent hits some server and downloads content then you had better be sure your servers can handle the load. Discs definitely needs decent quality control though. BD-J is a Java profile. Different players have different runtime implementations and even the odd bug that needs a workaround. Proper QA is the only way to catch such issues early enough to fix them.
shawnmos @ Oct 16th 2008 11:52AM
Actually no, they also had a recall as well. The first discs that came out would not work on any Sony or Samsung players (and possibly others).
VW Informant @ Oct 16th 2008 4:41PM
I think it's great how the format is being continually updated and improved. It should be interesting to see how THX certified blu-ray movies come out.
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