While several China-based large vendors/makers of consumer electronics plan to launch devices supporting CBHD (China Blue High-definition Disc), China’s home grown blue-laser optical disc technology slated to compete with Blu-ray Disc (BD), no Taiwan-based makers of optical disc drives have participated in CBHD development or promotion. Taiwan-based hardware makers prefer to bet all of their R&D resources on BD.

Blu-ray.com announced their Blu-ray Player Benchmarks that compares the performance of various Blu-ray players.

Blu-ray.com covered us showing our “Blu-ray 8644″ Blu-ray player reference design at the BDA seminar in Shenzhen, China.

At TelcoTV 2008, Nortel and RCDb showed off a new Video Bulletin Board application which allows cellphone users to send images and videos to any BD-Live enabled Blu-ray Disc player. In return, the person receiving the image or video can then use a click-to-call feature so they can call the person who sent them the media.

A BD-Live enabled Blu-ray player allows consumers to connect their TV to a world that has for far too long been difficult to reach – the Internet. Nortel is grasping onto this concept and allowing users to use their cellphones to communicate with their TVs.

A group of media industry companies said it is planning to build a digital world where video devices and content websites play together in perfect harmony, and consumers can safely store their digital content and access it anywhere in the world.

The consortium of Hollywood studios, retailers, service providers, and consumer electronics and information technology companies, called the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, or DECE, is working on a “uniform digital media experience” but won’t announce details until the Consumer Electronics Show in January.

To compliment Blu-ray, Blu-ray movies will probably include a voucher to enable accessing the same movie using DECE.