In a reversal of its public position on its support of technologies included in the prospective Blu-ray Disc standard, Hewlett-Packard has issued an open request to the Blu-ray Disc Association to include two technologies whose absence from Blu-ray was the subject of complaints from Intel and Microsoft.

According to a press release, HP has appealed to the BDA for the inclusion of managed copy, which enables individuals to make licensed backup copies of legally-obtained discs, either to backup discs or to hard drives for streaming throughout a networked household; and iHD, the interactive functionality layer developed by Microsoft and Disney. Blu-ray currently does not support managed copy, and has currently adopted Blu-ray Disc Java (BDJ) as its interactive layer; iHD is based instead on XML. Both managed copy and iHD are current features of the competing HD DVD high-def format, developed by members of the DVD Forum responsible for the present consumer DVD format.

Read more about HP's requests related to the Blu Ray Disc technology at http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/10/19/hp_public_reversal_on_blu-ray/.