A change of specification for Blu-ray discs?

According to a news published at Daily Tech, Blu-ray Disc Java is coming this fall, and it may be incompatible with some of today's machines.

As stated in the news, all players manufactured after October 31 must support BD Java, a programming language for Blu-ray Disc media used mainly to deliver picture-in-picture for in-movie commentary and special features.

It seems that some Majors avoided to release some titles in Blu-ray format because of the lacking of a definite standard. Moreover, the addition of BD Java is not the only new requirement for Blu-ray players this fall. All players released after October 31 must hold a minimum 256MB of persistent memory storage. Those with network options will have to have 1GB of memory to support Web downloads.

I wonder how this will influence end-consumers decisions about the new format to choose.

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