The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) will soon announce their plans for future support of 3 Dimensional home entertainment technology.
The BDA has been driven to take action due to Hollywood studios, electronics manufacturers and other interested parties that have all shown a growing interest in establishing industry wide standards for 3D content in the home. With the Blu-ray Disc format positioned to rule packaged media in the future, it is the obvious place to start.
Andy Parsons, chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association, recently stated that the BDA could pursue one of two approaches for implementing 3D technology on Blu-ray.
The first method would allow for 3D data to be passed through the player to the television, allowing supported TV's to handle all of the 3D processing. The second method would have the 3D processing occur on the Blu-ray players themselves, but this would most likely require yet another Blu-ray player profile. The new profile would need to be developed backwards compatible with existing Blu-ray profiles and would need to gain the support of CE manufacturers.
Unfortunately, all of this talk about 3D home entertainment might be a bit premature, as the technology won't be available for quite some time. Standards are not expected to be approved and implemented until 2010 at the earliest. Who knows when we will actually see the hardware arrive that will support this as-of-yet-not-agreed-upon 3D standard.
