BD-J —
In a few hours, Steve Jobs will deliver the keynote presentation at Apple’s 2008 World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC. I hoping (and expecting) it will be much better than last year’s, which I found pretty underwhelming. Why? Well, at the 2007 WWDC, Apple announced no new hardware; and all that emerged was:
The fact that the [...]
Well, I did some digging. This blog entry by Chris Adamson seems to sum things up.
Seems that the folks behind Java on Blu-ray (BD-J) aren’t yet serious about developers. The Blu-ray platform won’t get close to being optimally exploited until that changes…
Java will be embedded into every Blu-ray player on the market, and that includes Sony’s PS3 gaming console. That means, over the next five years, Java-enabled (Java ME CDC) devices will very likely be connected to well over a hundred million TV sets around the world. The question is: what kind of opportunities [...]