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Nvidia Announces 3D Blu-ray Format For 2010

Posted by timothy on from the reformat-your-viewing-cave dept.

Barence writes "Nvidia has announced that 3D Blu-ray movies will begin appearing in 2010. A spokesman confirmed that the Blu-ray Association — to which Nvidia is a contributor — had settled on the 'proper parameters [for] what constitutes a 3D Blu-ray' and claimed the first 3D Blu-ray films would hit the shelves 'towards the end of Summer 2010.' Nvidia will support the standard through its 3D Vision technology, using bit rates of around 60Mbits/second — twice that of a standard movie — although HDMI 1.3 'should have sufficient bandwidth' to ensure smooth playback. New files will be encoded using the MVC-AVC format, which is based on the AVC format currently used by Blu-ray movies.' Update: HotHardware has some additional details, including images of demo hardware.

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  1. New players AGAIN? by Kardos · · Score: 5, Interesting

    >>> “future Blu-ray equipment will need more powerful chips” to play content smoothly, with “the majority” of major manufacturers set to release “brand new players” next year.

    Good luck selling those, you're going to need it!

    1. Re:New players AGAIN? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Interesting. If I could see out of both eyes, I'd consider buying one (then again, I haven't bought the current run of crap... err... blu-ray stuff, so I won't have wasted money on it). Unlike vanilla crap-ra- I mean blu-ray, this actually seems like it could be worth the upgrade. At least, if you have two eyes...

  2. fuck blueray by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://fuckbluray.com/

  3. DLP? by goombah99 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm not really interested in having a fancy pants 3D diplay on my computer or laptop. All I want it is on the wall and it seems to me the simplest way to get it there is DLP projection since you can decouple how the pixels are created from the display surface. i.e. just use a regular DLP at twice the frame rate. Have the rotating color wheel or a secondary wheel do the polarization flipping. That way there's no crazy polarizer the size of the display surface or a linticlar lens system to mess with. cheap and effective. The trick will be doubling (or quadrupleing) the DLP frame rate which is an easily forseable and incremental technology advance. Worst case is to use two DLP chips and a ploarizing beam splitter which could be done right now.

    What's lacking for the consumer is a dvd format that stores the alternating frame info and standard that transmits via RGB or what ever to the projector with the proper left-right sync.

    Why is this taking so long? and when will I be able to buy one.

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  4. Re:Remind me why we need (or even want) this? by timeOday · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How do you feel about stereo sound? Stereo vision is just the same issue, except with more to gain since eyes are much higher bandwidth than ears.