Big Buck Bunny – OpenSource goes Blu-ray
Big Buck Bunny – OpenSource goes Blu-ray
Thursday 21. August 2008
With “Bick Buck Bunny“ Imagion AG also pushes the limits on Blu-ray. The disc features the world-premiere of three picture-in-picture video-streams and has highly innovative web-enabled features accessible via the dynamicHD BD-Live technology.
With their second project for the Blender Foundation after “Elephants Dream“, Imagion has again produced a “demo disc“ for upcoming features on Blu-ray – impressively showing the advantages of the new format over DVD. The disc tersely shows the abilities of the format when combining the movie with interactive features and web-enabled content
Michael Becker, CEO at Imagion: “With the release of ‘Big Buck Bunny’ we are very proud to be responsible for a Bluray that comprehensively shows the impressive abilities of the format. Probably for the fifi rst time ever we have included three picture-in-picture videos. With dynamicHD content added over the web you can see how easily the Blu-ray-Internet combination on BD-live players works, giving a strong perspective for upcoming Entertainment 2.0 scenarios. We will put most of our effort in these features as we believe BD-Live is essential for the fast success of the format. Whoever sees it wants it.”
The movie comes in 1080/24p full HD resolution and with 5.1 audio. The menus give access to the technical highlights of the Blu-ray release. Check it out:
• 3 Picture-in-Picture streams: Animatics gives access to four possibilities of watching the movie:
- Full-Screen Version: Shows the movie in full-HD resolution
Activatable picture-in-picture videos are: - PiP1 Animations: Shows the original storyboards
- PiP2 Blocked Animations: Shows the fi rst 3-D renders
- PiP3 Blender View: Shows the rough renders from “Blender”, which is the software used for the production of the movie
• dynamicHD-live: This button gives access to additional content via the internet. Using dynamicHD on BD-Live players, users can retrieve a vast variety of information, interactive elements, and communication modules. By connecting the Blu-ray player to the internet the user reaches content that always keeps the disc up-to-date. Imagion has implemented the following modules with the release of the title – there is more to come!
- News & Events: Latest information on the movie, where it is shown, what awards it got and news from the community of Blender-developers
- Galleries: Picture-galleries showing first drafts, the team, the offices and a lot more interesting insights into the developer’s world
- WebPages: Surf the web with a Blu-ray player! Websites related to “Big Buck Bunny” can be reached
- TuneHD.net: Is the link to the future features of the HD-Community www.tuneHD.net. The user can sign-in online and then up-/download and share profile, news, messages, pictures, sound-highlights, favorite scenes, games and much more. Users will even be able to submit questions for a “quiz-mode” or commentaries for a trivia-track soon!
- HDTV Basic Display Tuning: Allows to calibrate and adjust screen and sound settings with illustrative pictures. Very helpful!
• Outtakes, Making of, Commentaries and Deleted Scenes: Gives access to some short and sweet stories and bits of information of the people involved in the project giving an impressive insight “behind the scenes”
Technical requirements for the playback of the three picture-in-picture videos are players with a “Profifi le 1.1” installed. For all dynamicHD online-content a BD-Live capable player (Profifi le 2.0) and an internet connection are necessary.
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