Sony Intros New Subtitle Feature for Blu-ray

Blu-ray Disc chief proponent Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will add a couple of new technical features to its planned August release of the motion picture “Immortal Beloved”--namely, an innovative user-controlled subtitle option--as well as offering Dolby TrueHD audio tracks in more than one language.

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Publish date:: Jun 26, 2007
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Blu-ray Disc chief proponent Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will add a couple of new technical features to its planned August release of the motion picture “Immortal Beloved”--namely, an innovative user-controlled subtitle option--as well as offering Dolby TrueHD audio tracks in more than one language.

Subtitles (which are not particularly popular in America to begin with) have been known to prove distracting at times, depending on the aspect ratio. This new Blu-ray title, however, will allow users to manipulate the screen placement of subtitle text at their discretion, according to High-Def Digest.

Also, while a few other Blu-ray and HD DVD titles have included English Dolby TrueHD tracks, the new Blu-ray disc of “Immortal Beloved” will add TrueHD audio tracks both in Spanish and French.

Following initial online reports of such a pending move in Europe last weekend, chief Blu-ray Disc proponent Sony has released a free software upgrade (Firmware Update v2.10) for the internal Blu-ray drive of its PlayStation 3 game console, boosting the next-gen player to “Profile 1.1.”

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The new editing tools are designed to allow users to take advantage of "the precise balance of art and technology needed to produce 3D Blu-ray Discs."

Asad Qizilbash is product marketing manager for Sony Electronics, the chief proponent of the Blu-ray Disc standard.

BenQ , a cell phone and computer equipment maker, will soon unveil an optical DVD disc writer that will burn Blu-ray discs. BenQ said the units, expected to retail for about $1,000 (typical for other planned Blu-ray products), will arrive in stores starting in August. A late summer introduction of the unit (model BW1

Sony’s Blu-ray disc format, slated for roll-out in late 2005, might be delayed to early 2006.

Following about a year of hype and more than a few delays along the way, Sony said it has begun shipping its BDP-S1 Blu-ray Disc player to retailers in North America. Sony is the next-gen disc format's chief proponent, although not the first company to ship Blu-ray players. (Sony did release its PlayStation 3 game co

Content providers and other proponents of Blu-ray Disc will not likely be happy at this news.

One-upsmanship in the ongoing next-gen disc wars continues in earnest. Chief format proponent Sony’s latest foray is a second-gen internal Blu-ray Disc writer drive for computers which comes with 4X (four times) BD-R and 16X DVD+R recording speeds.