Netblender The company aims to offer in the coming days a software development kit (SDK) that will be used to create interactions between an iPhone or iPod Touch and devices capable of playing Blu-ray as the PlayStation 3 Sony! With this SDK, it would be possible to imagine driving the PS3 or its Platinum Blu-ray directly from the iPhone, which would be changed by remote control touch.

Dubbed BD Touch, the SDK would use the faith of the WiFi connectivity of the iPhone or iPod Touch and layer BD Live interactive controls built into most Blu-ray room, PS3 included. The possibilities do not stop with a simple remote control, since Netblender evokes consulting movies directly from the iPhone, the ability to view online content associated with feature inserted into the drive, or even buy directly iTunes Store on the soundtrack of the film in question!

For studios that publish films on Blu-ray Netblender offers another development kit to design features specifically dedicated to the iPhone and iPod Touch. This technology is already the subject of a short video presentation, produced in the style of pubs iPhone from Apple.

With a little delay on its original schedule, the Committee on private copying has finally been published in the Official Journal of the entry into force of the fee applied to phones with multimedia features, which should be applied from 1 May. If Orange and Apple decided to pass on the amount of the fee on the price of the iPhone, it will rise from 399 to about 408 euros.

Regularly contested by manufacturers of consumer electronics, the fee for private copying is designed to compensate artists and rightsholders for the uses made of their works in the family. By burning a music CD for my brother, I limit his chances to go buy it, and therefore causes a loss of revenue to the artist concerned. Are routinely taxed by Clubic “phones equipped with more memory than 128 MB which can reproduce the audio or video content and features with physical or software dedicated to these features of reading”.