// // // ]]> Back in 2009 we reported on a relatively new app which allows your handheld device (at the time only iPhone and iPod Touch) to control your Blu-Ray player. At the time it was thought of as a bit of a quirk or fad that people will download have a mess around with for a while and then go back to the comfort zone of the humble remote. Then it became available for Nokia phones and Android phones , the po

With the launch of 20th Century Fox’s Unstoppable on Blu-ray, the studio is taking big steps toward expanding distribution to other platforms as well. For the first time, owners of the Blu-ray disc will be able to transfer the movie to Android devices for viewing on the go. The ability to copy Unstoppable is made possible through BD Live and the PocketBlu Android app, which is available as a free download on

Fox’s Avatar is getting the Pocket BLU treatment. It’s the first time a non Universal title is going to be released with Pocket BLU cabaility. Does this mean that Pocket BLU will eventually branch out into other movie companies? It was stated in a previous blog that these type of apps while very good are limited to their own specific movie company, in this case Universal while apps such as iControlAV co

The pocket BLU machine is continiung to build momentum. New titles are being announced from Universal on a regular basis and now the app is more widely available than ever. In the begining pocket BLU was only available on the iPhone and could only be used on a handful of blu ray movies. The number of pocket BLU enabled titles is still barely over 20 but Universal are anouncing them as a rapid rate. Pocket BLU was

Back To The Future, the classic trilogy starring Micheal J Fox and Christopher Lloyd is coming to Blu-Ray very soon, with features including BD-Live and of course pocket BLU. These films are fantastic, I’ve seen all 3 many times and although Robert Zemekis’ vision on 2015 might have been a little different in 1991 to what the reality will be in five years time, these films still hold up remarkably. From

Pocket Blu is a way of controlling a blu-ray disk via your hand held device be it your iPhone, iPod Touch, Android or Nokia handset. It is only applicable to blu-ray disks that are Pocket Blu enabled. There does seem to be a lack of a list available on the internet at the moment so here is a list for you. There are titles coming out all the time so please keep coming back for regular updates to the list. Pocket