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Universal Studios Home Entertainment today announced a plan to deliver iPhone and iPod touch-enabled features on its upcoming Blu-ray releases that can be accessed with applications from the App Store.
The new functions will be launched July 28 to coincide with the 2-Disc Special Edition Blu-ray release of the box-office hit Fast & Furious, starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. For the first time, iPhone and iPod touch users will have the ability to control interactive content on their Internet and Wi-Fi connected Blu-ray players.
Later this year on select Universal releases, consumers will also be to access bonus content found on their Blu-ray disc and download it into their iPhone or iPod touch; use the devices as a remote to control their Blu-ray disc features; and access additional detailed information about the film, including its cast, while watching the movie.
These releases will also integrate with social network applications or sites such as Facebook and Twitter to allow users to update their friends about movie-related activities.

IPhone and iPod Touch users will be able to use the interactive technology tied to the Fast & Furious “Virtual Car Garage” bonus feature. They also can use their devices’ touch screens to control 360-degree views of the movie’s street-racers and get technical specs for the film’s high-tech cars.

Apple Chief Operating Officer Timothy Cook Cook dampened expectations today that Apple might enter the low-end netbook market, which has boosted computer sales globally during the downturn.

He spoke out more forcefully against the category than he had in the past.

“When I look at what is being sold in the notebook space today, I see cramped keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware, very small screens — just not a consumer experience, not something we would put the Mac brand on,” he said during the company’s quarterly earnings conference call with analysts. “It’s a segment we don’t play in.”
Cook also said Apple’s iPod Touch and iPhone — which are basically pocket computers — address some of the reasons consumers are buying netbooks.
However, he seemed to leave the door open to an Apple netbook-type device, at least a crack. “If we find a way where we can deliver an innovative product that really makes a contribution, then we will have some interesting ideas in this space,” Cook said.
Needham & Co. analyst Charles Wolf speculated that Apple is possibly working on a device modeled after the iPod Touch with a larger screen.
Apple, though, is not in a race to the bottom.
“They are not going to start dropping prices to generate sales. If they did, it would destroy their margins,” Wolf said. “If Apple addresses the netbook space, they will move up.”