The Blu-Ray Disc Association is developing its position on stereoscopic 3-D under growing pressure from Hollywood studios who want to create a home video market for their rising number of stereo 3-D movies.
At least four ad hoc industry groups formed just this year to explore standards for stereo 3-D on TV. The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers held a meeting this week to form a task force to explore a 3-D content mastering standard. The Consumer Electronics Association will hold a meeting in October to determine if it should try to set standards potentially covering, TVs, set-top box and disk players.
Theoretically, the Blu-Ray group could take one of two broad approaches to stereo 3-D, said Parsons. It could decide to just pass through to HDMI ports any 3-D data on a disk letting the TV render it, or it could render the 3-D information locally which would require a significant addition to the Blu-Ray specification. If the group opts for the later approach it will need to define a standard format. In either case, the group wants to make sure any 3-D approach is compatible with its existing specification for 2-D content,
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