Blu-ray’s BD+ licensing program completed
Home Media Magazine is reporting that BD+ Technologies has announced the completion of its licensing program. BD+ Technologies is the licensor of BD+ which is the another layer of content protection found on a Blu-ray disc in addition to AACS. BD+ allows content providers the ability to include small executable programs on Blu-ray discs that can perform various activities such as examining the player’s environment to see if there was any tampering, verifying the digital keys have not been changed, and transforming the audio and video output. As expected, several movie studios have come out in full support of this security layer because it’s yet another method of protecting their valuable content. This is arguably one of the major differences between Blu-ray and HD DVD that’s been often cited by movie studios.