NEW YORK, NY -- 11/03/09 --
Giant Interactive, a leading creator in
Blu-ray, DVD, creative content and interactive media services, in exclusive
partnership with Imagion AG, Europe's leading BD-Live service provider,
announced today the North American availability of BD-Connect(TM), the
world's most widely used BD-Live solution. The flexible, easy to use
gateway to content and customers is the easiest BD-Live technology to
implement, is pre-configured with more features than competing solutions
and ready to go.
"Blu-ray is well on its way to becoming DVD's successor, and in addition to
amazing high definition video and audio, one of the great features of the
format is web interactivity," noted Jeff Stabenau, President, Giant
Interactive. "BD-Connect offers the richest, most powerful BD-Live
experience for consumers and content providers today."
Already featured on more than 400 titles in Europe as dynamicHD, and
available in North America exclusively through Giant, BD-Connect software
for adding robust web-connected interactive features to Blu-ray Discs is
active and in use on more Blu-ray titles worldwide than any other BD-Live
platform. The technology is already a hit with European consumers and
content producers, and it arrives in North America as a compelling and
thoroughly proven gateway to customers and content. BD-Connect works
seamlessly with community-driven web sites such as CBS-BDLive.com, Twitter
and Facebook. Other noteworthy features include a highly scalable
architecture with Akamai edge server content delivery, allowing for rapid
loading of geo-targeted BD-Live components with full screen progressive
streaming video, HD downloads, synched movie viewing experiences, user
generated quizzes, trivia tracks, photo galleries, marketing banners, RSS
feeds and menu widgets.
BD-Connect has also enjoyed critical acclaim from the Blu-ray community.
Featured on Paramount Home Entertainment's "Star Trek The Original Series"
and "CSI" box sets, High-Def Digest called the technology "...one of the
most useful and best implemented BD-Live features I have used to date," while
High-Def Disc News praised the "very sleek and fast interface," and
EngadgetHD declared "These implementations so far have been some of the
best examples of the potential BD-Live holds that we keep hearing about,
but rarely see."
BD-Connect is currently featured on CBS/Paramount Home Entertainment's
recent "CSI Season 9" Blu-ray release, which takes users to criminology and
forensics conferences in Denver and Las Vegas via BD-Live, showing how
easily targeted content can be delivered to consumers. The platform is
being spotlighted this week at the Blu-Con 2.0 media industry conference in
Los Angeles.
About Giant Interactive:
Giant Interactive is a foremost provider of creative and technical digital
media services for the world's top Home Entertainment content owners and
distributors. Through offices in Los Angeles, New York and Denver, as well
as worldwide strategic partnerships, Giant delivers specialized services
for DVD and Blu-ray authoring; original content production for web,
value-added and TV; creative design, interactive TV applications, BD Live
development and hosting, and java programming. Since its founding in 2005,
Giant Interactive has been recognized numerous times with industry awards
and accolades for superior creativity and expertise. In 2009 the company
was recognized with Home Media Magazine's "Best Collection/Multi-Disc Set"
and "DVD of the Year" awards for its design and authoring work on the 28
disc, 86 episode presentation of "The Sopranos: The Complete Collection."
For more information about BD-Connect, http://www.bd-connect.com/
For more information about Giant Interactive,
http://www.giant-interactive.com/
Press Contact:
Ed Peters
Sue Procko Public Relations
323-653-5153 x227
edp@sueprockopr.com
