One of the points hammered home at the conference was the importance of a standards in all HD DVD products, which is allowing the debut of community features, including downloading trailers, movie show times, and a new feature that allows users to share custom movie clips.
Kevin Collins of the HD DVD Promotion Group demoed the sharing feature, which lets users send defined clips from movies over the Internet to their friends (assuming they also have the title on disc). Users can start and stop custom movie clips with one-button begin and end functionality and the player will store the clip in the unit's memory and upload it over the network to send to a friend.
HD DVD users can access the content through the "Download Center," thanks to the "guaranteed features of every player," says Collins.
Kevin Collins of the HD DVD Promotion Group demoed the sharing feature, which lets users send defined clips from movies over the Internet to their friends (assuming they also have the title on disc). Users can start and stop custom movie clips with one-button begin and end functionality and the player will store the clip in the unit's memory and upload it over the network to send to a friend.
HD DVD users can access the content through the "Download Center," thanks to the "guaranteed features of every player," says Collins.
In other news, Blu-Ray has still not been able to match HD DVD's interactivity features from last year. Even Blu-Ray's best attempt "The Descent" with PIP is done via trickery (seamless branching with two encoded movie streams - one with the window, one without) instead of HD DVD's true PIP (one video stream overlayed on top of another), making advanced features such as multiple PIP windows (i.e. Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift U-Control) downright not work.
And once again, every single HD DVD player out there is capable of these new community & internet features while Blu-Ray players at double the price can't do it at all
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