Dreamer to Present at JavaOne on Creating Private Interactive "Blu-ray-to-TV" Channels

Burbank, Calif.-based Blu-ray technology company, Dreamer, announced Tuesday that it will be presenting a session entitled "How to 'BluTube': Broadcasting over Broadband to a Blu-ray Player" (4:10PM, June 3rd, in the Moscone Center's North 124 conference room) at next month's JavaOne conference in San Francisco. According to the company, the session will focus on how to create and deploy private broadcasting channels that deliver audio, video and interactive applications to TV's, using Dreamer's Java-based "BIDDLE" technology for Blu-ray. "We are excited about the opportunity to present the Java developer community with a solution with which they can create their own interactive Blu-ray-to-TV broadcasting channels," Dreamer president and CEO, Won Baek, said in a prepared statement. "Our BIDDLE technology has been successfully utilized by large IPTV companies for several years now, and we are looking forward to the many exciting and creative interactive TV applications the Java developer community will create."

Dreamer says that its JavaOne session will see it introducing a BIDDLE API for optimizing client resources and application segmentation, as well as a tool for encoding and segmenting content for progressive download to Blu-ray players. It also says it plans to launch a developer support portal on its Web site (dreamercorp.com/developer) on June 3rd. The company bills its BIDDLE technology as a thin-client solution that allows an unlimited range of content--including video, music, games, social networking and advertising--to be managed from the server side, thus giving broadcasters "full control over their content and how it is presented, as well as the flexibility to add, change and remove content at any time." According to the company, the technology will work with any Profile 2.0-compliant (BD-Live), broadband-connected Blu-ray player to enable direct-to-TV broadcasting.