Blu-Ray 3D standard has been finalized!

[Brent J. Craig]

The Blu-ray Disc Association today announced (http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091217005371&newsLang=en) the finalization and release of the “Blu-ray 3D™” specification.

The good news is that it will be backwards compatible with 2D players, and that the PS3 will support Blu-ray 3D.

I have long suspected that the current marketing drive for high-refresh rate HDTVs was so that when Blu-ray 3D came out, people would already own TVs with enough processing power to display different images to each eye. There's no better way to sell a technology than to tell people it's already in their home! Hopefully with the simple addition of LCD shutter glasses to my PS3, my home theatre will be 3D capable. The surely can't expect us to buy new big screens in this economy can they?

Has anyone heard anything about using existing, fast refresh displays for 3D? Am I missing an important point that would make it impossible and my beloved Panasonic plasma obsolete?

[Brent J. Craig]

Interesting coincidence that Blu-ray 3D is announced the same day that Avatar opened!

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I've been following it for a while and it seems to have been ready. Almost like they waited for AVATAR before making the announcement!

[Tom Lowe]

I've been following it for a while and it seems to have been ready. Almost like they waited for AVATAR before making the announcement!

And guess what. If they can give people the 3D experience at home that they got at the theater watching AVATAR, they are going to sell this technology like hotcakes.... hotcakes!

[ScottyC]

shweet :)

[Dylan Macleod, CSC]

Today's "Globe and Mail" has an interesting article - in the Business section - on Avatar and 3D.

There is mention of Sony Bravia's being "3D ready".

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/managing/cinema-rolls-big-budget-dice-on-3-d/article1406124/

[Brent J. Craig]

There is mention of Sony Bravia's being "3D ready".

They still don't make it clear whether that means existing TV's with fast refresh or new Bravia's that we will need to buy.

There must be someone here on Reduser with the inside story.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Just a guess / ASSumption, but I would think most any high-refresh capable HDTV is "3D ready". If you think about it, all that is needed is shutter glasses and a signaling mechanism to sync the glasses with the picture. Samsung has been selling 3D kits with shutter glasses and an IR signaling box for their DLP TV's for the past two years. Not sure what is out there to actually use them with, but the product is there. Theoretically, any display capable of 48fps progressive display or faster would work, but I would think that the 120Hz and up displays are best suited to this otherwise theres going to be horrible strobing, flicker and judder. From what I can tell of the Blu-Ray 3D spec, it should be possible even on 720p60 displays if the manufacturers provide a way to sync shutter glasses with them.

[Sarah C.]

FYI.. James Cameron was checking how well the 3D shooting was doing.. on set... on monitors. ;)

[David Wilson]

The existing line of Mitsubishi DLPs render astonishingly good stereo at 1080p for very affordable prices. 60 - 84 inch ($900 - 4,000)

[Hrvoje Simic]

A bunch of "3D ready" things coming out @ CES.