<img src=”http://i18.tinypic.com/2ykm05k.jpg” align=”left” height=”139″ width=”180″ />Panasonic North America is establishing a Blu-ray Testing Centre in Hollywood in order to test that content meets certain standards, prior to discs being replicated. Blu-ray’s complicated copy protection systems require a high level of technical sophistication to verify, and the motion picture industry have expressed the need for such a testing centre.

<!–more–>Testing services provided will include a format verification service for the logical format of BD Video/Live Discs, and a playback testing service.

Panasonic is inviting the member companies of Blu-ray Disc
Association (BDA) to install their BD-Video playback products, including Blu-ray
recorders and players in PHBTC so that content providers and authoring studios
can confirm the interoperability of their titles using these playback products.

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According to Searchblog, Google is launching an in-browser video playback feature based on the open source VLC media player. This is the logical next step for Google’s video search and upload function, which began taking uploads from anyone who cared to submit back in April.

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