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Tokens Gone

Wow. The Xbox 360 HD DVD emulator was WAY more popular than we had imagined. Josh processed thousands of requests and hopefully a huge number of developers are now out there experimenting with interactivity. But, now we have run out of our token allotment Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:35 PM by Amy | 7 Comments
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Advanced Subtitles

In HD DVD subtitling can be done via a subpicture stream or an Advanced Subtitle. An advanced subtitle is very similar in structure to an advanced application. It has a manifest, markup file, and font and is declared with its resources in the playlist. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:28 PM by Amy | 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): AdvancedSubtitles.zip

Virtual Keyboards

The input tag has four options for mode: password, singleline, multiline or display. When an input element with singleline, multiline, or password mode receives focus, the player may launch an onscreen keyboard to allow user input or a software player Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:33 AM by Amy | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): Keyboards.zip

Dynamic Content

Today's sample was created upon a request from my very nice and hard working office-mate Chris. Last week Chris began learning HDi. He whizzed through all the Jumpstart samples and the projects on my blog, and jumped into creating a project that would Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:01 AM by Amy | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): DynamicContent.zip

HD DVD FAQs

General Why is Microsoft involved in HD DVD? Microsoft supports HD DVD because the mandatory player features such as persistent storage, picture-in-picture, and network connectivity lead to greater interactivity and a better, more consistent user experience. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 1:09 PM by Amy | 0 Comments

Blackjack

Today's game example is inspired by Ocean's 13 (available on HD DVD this fall). Blackjack is one of my favorite casino games, but I was too busy at NAB this year to make it to the tables. So, here it is for you in HDi (with some graphics assistance from Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2007 12:38 PM by Amy | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): blackjack.zip

Making the Most of Markup

Before I started working on HDi, I was a web developer. I found the transition to HDi pretty easy because the markup and the script were already so familiar to me. There is, however, a very big difference with HDi markup that web developers should learn Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:08 AM by Amy | 1 Comments
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IntelliSense - It's a Good Thing.

As you begin working on your playlists, manifests, and markup xml files, you will find attaching the HDi schemas to be very helpful in creating and validating your files. A schema defines structure, content, and semantics for your XML document. When you Read More...
Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 5:19 PM by Amy | 1 Comments
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Regarding Fonts in HD DVD

In my last post I mentioned that you can use an OpenType font if you wish to include dynamic text in your application. But please remember to review the license of the font that you choose to use. Fonts are protected by copyright and you must obtain proper Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:45 AM by Amy | 0 Comments
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Dissecting Hello World

Lets open up the Hello World sample that came with Jumpstart and go through the components that make up a HDi application. You will find these files in C:\Program Files\HD DVD Interactivity Jumpstart\Samples\HelloWorld\ADV_OBJ PLAYLIST VPLST000.XPL is Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 9:54 PM by Amy | 0 Comments
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