Star Trek, CSI Blu-ray boxed sets doing BD-Live right with dynamicHD
by Richard Lawler 
posted May 1st 2009 at 4:33PM
Star Trek®: The Original Series – Season One,
Now Available On Blu-Ray For The First Time Ever,
Gives Fans Exclusive Event Coverage Via BD-Live
Fans Get BD Live Access To Daily Reports From "Fedcon,"
Europe's Largest Star Trek Convention
Taking Place In Bonn, Germany From May 1st To May 3rd
Owners of STAR TREK®: THE ORIGINAL SERIES on Blu-ray will be able to access daily reports from FEDCON, Europe's largest STAR TREK convention, for direct download from the disc's BD-Live portal. Apart from the additional information and exclusive videos and trailers provided via BD-Live, videos of the highlights at FEDCON will be available for download.
For the first time ever, CBS Home Entertainment will have teams onsite at FEDCON, filming behind-the-scenes footage, talent interviews and more which will then be made available daily for direct download.
The convention in Germany features appearances from many stars of the STAR TREK universe including Nichelle Nichols (Captain Uhura) from the classic STAR TREK series. More than 5,000 fans will get together in Bonn to celebrate their favorite series over the weekend. All fans are also invited to post their private pictures and comments at CBS's new website dedicated to BD-Live at: www.cbs-bdlive.com
The groundbreaking first season of STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES on
Blu-ray, released on April 28 from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment, boasts superior picture and pristine audio for the best possible home viewing experience. The Blu-ray seven disc set includes all 29 first season episodes and loads of special features.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
J.Goodwin @ May 1st 2009 6:44PM
They finally realized that just doing what HD-DVD did was the best way. Shocking.
Well, at least they're coming around, however slowly.
Vidikron @ May 2nd 2009 1:37AM
Meh... most of the online stuff was pretty lame on HD-DVD too. Mostly a bunch of surveys, trailers, that ability to bookmark your favorite clips and send them to friends, etc... nothing much that would have interested most people. Some of this stuff sounds more compelling though.
EQC @ May 3rd 2009 9:34PM
"You can check out the website to see who is watching right now and where, set up watching parties and share quizzes. "
Is that supposed to be good? I can't fathom caring to know who else in the country is watching the movie I just popped into my video player. Watching parties (with groups in different places able to chat or something?) sounds useful only for parents out traveling who think it'll let them watch a movie with their kids...but they'll soon find out it's nicer just to talk to the kid on the phone instead of saying something once every few minutes during a 2-hour movie. And sharing quizzes? What is this, Cosmo?
I can see the Trek folks getting into news on conventions and such...and being able to get trailers for upcoming movies from the studio would be nice (instead of having to watch trailers for old movies when the disk is a few years old)...but other than that, I don't see much of value in these BD-Live features. Eventually, it's all just going to boil down to links to stores where I can be encouraged to pay good money for annoying/pointless movie-related ringtones and screensavers....so, we'll all be paying extra (features cost money) for the privilege of getting another sales pitch!
Frenzy @ May 4th 2009 12:41AM
Hi EQC,
I just checked out the features on the disc that came up. And frankly speaking this is the best BD-Live usuage I have ever seen. I really hope that also other distributors will come up with features like this instead of boring trailer downloads.
Frenzy