HD Handbook

The HD Cookbook is related to the HD Handbook. The HD Handbook provides information about authoring, design and production of both Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD. The HD Cookbook will provide more in-depth information about authoring, and programming the interactive layer of each format: HD-DVD Advanced Content, and Blu-ray Disc Java. See the McGraw Hill website, or you can buy it here and here.

Blu-ray Disc Java Resources

• BD-J source code repository
• BD-J discussion forum and linked mailing list.
• The BD-J Authoring Notes and Guidelines Wiki
• bdlive.com, a site sponsored by RCDB and Sun featuring a developer's disc that will let you develop BD-J for any BD-Live player without having to burn a disc.
• Blu-ray websites at Blueboard and Earfeast.
• Wikipedia on BD-J
• BDA website.
• BD-J is related to MHP, GEM and OCAP. You can find out more about these standards in the book Interactive TV Standards, and the associated website.
• CableLabs maintains an OCAP Developer Community page.
• The Java TV discussion forum has evolved into a de-facto discussion forum for MHP.