NetBlender today announced a new Blu-ray Disc technology that allows iPhones and iPod Touch devices to interact with content on a Blu-ray disc. Called “BD Touch”, the technology leverages the network connection built into Blu-ray players and the WiFi connection on the iPhone to create two-way communication between the devices. Video, audio, text, and player commands can be transferred via the connection.

BD Touch connects the 10 foot experience of the large screen home theater with the mobile experience offered by the iPhone. The UI of the iPhone enables unprecedented user interaction when compared to any other handheld device. BD Touch applications can take advantage of the iPhone’s geo location features, 3D sensors and QWERTY keyboard. BD Touch features will work on any BD Live-enabled Blu-ray Disc player such as the PlayStation 3.

Other implementations of BD Touch will include:

• Pushing digital copies of movies to an iPhone from the Blu-ray disc menu.
• Automatically cataloguing a viewer’s Blu-ray disc collection and providing movie suggestions
• Displaying trivia and extra information about a movie in sync with the movie’s playback
• Turning existing Blu-ray discs into games that use the iPhone as the game controller

Information about BD Touch and the BD Touch SDK can be found at http://www.netblender.com.