Asked during a call with financial analysts to provide an update on his roadmap with respect to KeyChest - his studio's own online locker - and possible support for UltraViolet, the system backed by most Hollywood studios, Disney CEO Bob Iger said: "We still think that it would be a smart thing to offer consumers a greater interoperability because it would increase the value relationship that they would be getting when they bought either physical goods or digital goods."?

"We haven't rolled out KeyChest as extensively as we hoped that we would at this point,"? he volunteered. "We're in pretty significant discussions with a number of entities, as we have been for a while. But there's nothing really further to report on that."?

'I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet. I'm not suggesting that we're not open-minded about it, but so far I'm not sure that it's proven to be as robust as we'd expected or as consumer-friendly as we had hoped. Again, that's not to say that we wouldn't necessarily to consider it, but it's way too early to conclude that," he suggested.

Story filed 12.02.12