Videociety VOD service uses Blu-ray players with BD-Live

German production house Enteractive is readying its Blu-ray Java disc powered service Videociety that turns any BD-Live enabled Blu-ray player into an Internet delivered VOD box. Still unknown is what resolution movies will be offered in and which ones, although h.264 compression (with Dolby Digital 2.0 or 5.1 soundtracks) is confirmed, and the company has access to 400 films from sister companies Splendid Film, Polyband and WVG Media and negotiations with other major and independent studios are ongoing. Just like Netflix's Watch Instantly, movies are queued from a PC or iPhone, then streamed to the Blu-ray player once the disc is inserted. Anyone else hoping that if this works well it gets picked up outside of Germany after the official launch at IFA in September?

[Via Blu-ray.com]

[(Unverified) Posted May 1st 2009 11:59AM]

Sounds good to me.

[(Unverified) Posted May 1st 2009 12:35PM]

Yes, but what may not sound good is the name. Is it pronounced like "society" or "videocity"? Or maybe "vid-EE-ocity"? Kinda clunky if you ask me, but if it takes off, PS3 owners will be happy. BTW, does anyone know what happened with IPTV for the PS3 or the Xbox 360? It would be the perfect complement to the movie services each console has.

[(Unverified) Posted May 12th 2009 4:04PM]

The service is called videociety. We believe, once the name is learned and well known, people want have any trouble. A part from that, the name videociety is exactly what the service will offer the end user. Movies to watch and a community to share their passion for films! The service is truly amazing - it is just like watching a DVD.

videociety is the Next Generation streaming broadband network for all Blu-ray BD-Live
players. The Blu-ray player has become the first CE device to enter the living room to playback all disc based media (CD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc) as well as viewing pictures and listening to music via SD card or USB-stick/HDD. With videociety the perspective of
bring the non-physical video content to the living room isn‘t a dream anymore. We call that
“Unified Entertainment”.

videociety‘s extended Blu-ray Disc and BD-Live technology, jointly paves the way for Video-on-Demand and IPTV entering the living room. It transforms every Blu-ray BD-Live player into a personalized premium video archive plus a whole lot more in the future.