You know when you read a load of comments that totally go against your opinion? Wow... Where to start...
I am a DVD author in a big produciton house in London, a programmer with a degree in Computer Science and I am emphatically NOT a Microsoft hater.
HOWEVER, I back BDJ fully... As someone else said, not only is BDJ a derivation of existing standards in interactive television, its base, Java, is a very clean, full programming language, well defined, open language that is easy to read and work with, can be coded and compiled with any number of development environments (even notepad).
My present view of HDi is that it is technically weaker, being a scripting language and therefore 'interpreted' (slower) and more importantly, it's shrouded in Microsoft endorsed standards that are revealed to developers as they wish. Uses .NET for development meaning use of heavy development environments restricting you to a particular coding style.
I am not saying I think Blu-ray will win, or that there will even be a winner. What I am saying is that as a coder who appreciates technically neat and open standards, I desperately HOPE that Blu-Ray wins. Otherwise I will wake up every morning knowing I have to code a steaming pile of HDi.
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You know when you read a load of comments that totally go against your opinion? Wow... Where to start...
I am a DVD author in a big produciton house in London, a programmer with a degree in Computer Science and I am emphatically NOT a Microsoft hater.
HOWEVER, I back BDJ fully... As someone else said, not only is BDJ a derivation of existing standards in interactive television, its base, Java, is a very clean, full programming language, well defined, open language that is easy to read and work with, can be coded and compiled with any number of development environments (even notepad).
My present view of HDi is that it is technically weaker, being a scripting language and therefore 'interpreted' (slower) and more importantly, it's shrouded in Microsoft endorsed standards that are revealed to developers as they wish. Uses .NET for development meaning use of heavy development environments restricting you to a particular coding style.
I am not saying I think Blu-ray will win, or that there will even be a winner. What I am saying is that as a coder who appreciates technically neat and open standards, I desperately HOPE that Blu-Ray wins. Otherwise I will wake up every morning knowing I have to code a steaming pile of HDi.