BDA Finalizes Blu-ray 3D Specification
Posted in Playstation 3, Technology on December 17th, 2009 by Dave
Good news for fans of high quality 3D presentations - the Blu-ray Disc Association has announced that they have finalized the specification for titles in 3D on the Blu-ray format.
The specification requires 3D video to employ the Multiview Video Coding (MVC) codec, which is essentially an extension of the H.264/AVC codec.
MPEG4-MVC compresses both left and right eye images with roughly a 50% overhead compared to equivalent 2D content.
The best part is that it can provide full 1080p resolution backward compatibility with current Blu-ray Disc players.
It is also expected that the Playstation 3 console will be capable of decoding the new format in 3D, enabling may to have access to 3D without the need for a new player.
It will certainly be interesting to see how many current Blu-ray titles see a fresh release in 3D…!

On the website side, the first thing I noticed is that my screen name still has not been approved, so I am still known as Inmate 15946 - err I mean Guest 15946.