My god, I saw 3d in imax once and it's freakin' insane.
This consortium is great thing. It will speed up adoption and offer something truly next gen. I'm pretty sure this is one of the bad things for Blu-Ray.
New technologies are booming and will give Blu-Ray even more trouble in mass adoption.
Ok, I think you're missing one important fact. And, you can hate Blu-ray all you want. But, the fact remains that we need a way to sell/deliver the content to the public, and downloading it doesn't cut it yet. So, that leaves us with Blu-ray as the only choice due to its large capacity. If we want HD, PCM audio, and 3D, guess what? We don't have any other form available to deliver such huge amounts of data to the customers than via Blu-ray discs. HD-DVD is dead and you have Toshiba to thank for that. The world has accepted Blu-ray as the optical media of choice to deliver HD content. So cut the nonsense and join the club because your mourning is getting ridiculous.
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.
If 3D were to become a standard it's obvious that Blu Ray would feature prominently in it. Nothing else comes close to offering the storage capacity required to make it work properly. Not that 3D is going to be more than a niche for a long, long time.
I remember walking around trade shows 15 years ago where various 3D displays were being shown. Nothing came of it then and I doubt nothing will ever come of it until someone produces a proper display that doesn't require glasses, or the viewer to be exactly in front of the set and exactly some distance away.
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Nfinity @ Apr 15th 2008 8:55PM
Now THIS IS what we are calling next gen.
My god, I saw 3d in imax once and it's freakin' insane.
This consortium is great thing. It will speed up adoption and offer something truly next gen. I'm pretty sure this is one of the bad things for Blu-Ray.
New technologies are booming and will give Blu-Ray even more trouble in mass adoption.
Rob @ Apr 15th 2008 10:21PM
Ok, I think you're missing one important fact. And, you can hate Blu-ray all you want. But, the fact remains that we need a way to sell/deliver the content to the public, and downloading it doesn't cut it yet. So, that leaves us with Blu-ray as the only choice due to its large capacity. If we want HD, PCM audio, and 3D, guess what? We don't have any other form available to deliver such huge amounts of data to the customers than via Blu-ray discs. HD-DVD is dead and you have Toshiba to thank for that. The world has accepted Blu-ray as the optical media of choice to deliver HD content. So cut the nonsense and join the club because your mourning is getting ridiculous.
Mr. E @ Apr 15th 2008 10:54PM
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.
DrXym @ Apr 16th 2008 5:07AM
If 3D were to become a standard it's obvious that Blu Ray would feature prominently in it. Nothing else comes close to offering the storage capacity required to make it work properly. Not that 3D is going to be more than a niche for a long, long time.
I remember walking around trade shows 15 years ago where various 3D displays were being shown. Nothing came of it then and I doubt nothing will ever come of it until someone produces a proper display that doesn't require glasses, or the viewer to be exactly in front of the set and exactly some distance away.