One of the stated goals of this consortium is to "facilitate the development of industry standards." Since there are obviously no standards yet in place, it's a little premature to assume it will require an entirely new format.
In fact, it would be in everyone's interest to come up with a home 3D standard that can work on Blu-ray, preferably transparently, but if necessary with a new profile definition. It's going to be at least a few years until 3D in the home even starts to really get any serious interest. By that time, Blu-ray will be well on the way to migrating from early adopter to mainstream status. A profile definition wouldn't be terrible, because people with an investment in Blu-ray software could just get a new player, if they so desire, and play back 3D titles along with the existing library of BDs and DVDs.
To me, the main barrier to 3D in the home are the required glasses. Unless they can get over that hurdle I don't think it will gain much if any traction.
The device is aimed at gamers and TV watchers, generating a 3D image with use of a pair of 0.7-inch OLED panels, which each display separate images, doing away with the ghost imagery that often comes along with 3D displays.
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One of the stated goals of this consortium is to "facilitate the development of industry standards." Since there are obviously no standards yet in place, it's a little premature to assume it will require an entirely new format.
In fact, it would be in everyone's interest to come up with a home 3D standard that can work on Blu-ray, preferably transparently, but if necessary with a new profile definition. It's going to be at least a few years until 3D in the home even starts to really get any serious interest. By that time, Blu-ray will be well on the way to migrating from early adopter to mainstream status. A profile definition wouldn't be terrible, because people with an investment in Blu-ray software could just get a new player, if they so desire, and play back 3D titles along with the existing library of BDs and DVDs.
To me, the main barrier to 3D in the home are the required glasses. Unless they can get over that hurdle I don't think it will gain much if any traction.