Vice President and Sun Fellow James Gosling says Blu-ray and its Java parts are pretty substantial, and software upgradeable players, which are primarily PlayStation 3, will be implementing Profile 2.0 spec soon, adding a very compelling component.

Speaking to Builder AU during Sun Tech Day in Sydney, Gosling explained, "There's actually this Profile 2.0 spec for Blu-ray, which almost all of the Blu-ray players out now don't implement ... that adds all this networking ability. So you can actually use a Blu-ray box to do things other than play Blu-ray discs ... You can do things that are hybrids between playing discs and content over the network."

Gosling is hoping that JavaFX will be used in the Blu-ray spec. At this point, he says, the spec has really primitive graphics due to cost-containment issues: "...the folks in the consumer electronics industry tend to be really conservative, I mean they want to be able to sell Blu-ray players for 50 bucks. So they really cut down on some of the levels of aspiration."

However, despite the investment, Gosling reports the Blu-ray spec does have good image manipulation and "you can pre-compute an image and splash it up really fast." He'd like to use JavaFX to go up a level of abstraction from the usual APIs, and actually take drawing primitives and then transform them into images. "...we believe we ought to be able to get a pretty good graphics experience through FX on Blu-ray and make it really feel like anywhere else," he says.

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