Comments on: BD-Live falls short again with 'Iron Man'

Iron Man's BD-live servers were overwhelmed last week, which only puts more attention the fact that the extra content could fit on the Blu-ray Disc, instead of forcing buyers to download it.

[l3it3r]

What got me was that it took the full three minutes I've seen other BluRay discs claim to load up on the PS3 when the other BDs only take maybe.. what? 10 seconds? I actually thuoght it had locked up the first time and rebooted the PS3

[MadLyb]

I want to watch a movie, not play a video game.

This is simply an artificial convergence created by the Blu-Ray team to better differentiate Blu from HD-DVD and I have no interest in it. In fact, I am motivated to buy players that don't support it to simply to avoid the resulting mess.

[griz_fan]

A couple of thoughts here. First, this shouldn't be a BR vs HD DVD argument. Both formats offered online, interactive content. Also, the problems with the Iron Man disk shouldn't be viewed so much as a problem with BD-Live per se, but rather a problem with how poorly Paramount implemented it. The very fact that it tried to download content before the main menu even loaded shows that people at Paramount really have no clue about interface design. That was simply a dumb decision.

As far as BD-Live is concerned, I see it in the same category as Adobe Flash on websites. Both are great technologies that, in the right hands, can provide something truly creative, fun and interactive. But, in the hands of incompetent hacks, both are at best annoying. How many websites have you seen with crappy Flash animation that only gets in the way of why you visited the website to begin with?