Providing services using data on blu-ray disc

摘要

Providing a VOD service using BD data available to a BD player includes: preparing VOD data such that the BD player can use the VOD data to provide the VOD service; inserting the VOD data onto a BD; preparing VOD selections and VOD metadata based on the VOD data read from the BD; and delivering the content item selected by a user from a menu of VOD selections. Keywords include Blu-ray, BD-Live, Video-on-Demand.

主权项

1. A method of providing a video-on-demand (VOD) service using VOD data available on a Blu-ray Disc (BD), the method comprising:
receiving the VOD data extracted from the BD that was inserted into a BD player, wherein the received VOD data is used to obtain the VOD service available from a content server; preparing a menu of VOD selections and VOD metadata to be sent to the BD player based on the received VOD data, wherein the VOD data includes data about the BD that the BD player and the content server use to determine the VOD selections to present, wherein the VOD metadata comprises metadata indicating which of the VOD selections to be made from the menu should be displayed by the BD player based on a genre of original content stored on the BD and an identity of a user; and delivering content items selected by the user from the menu of the VOD selections.