Panasonic has submitted its proposal for a 3D Blu-ray standard to the Blu-ray Disc Association.
The standard would offer guidelines for creating "left/right-eye two-channel full HD images".
Panasonic's director of AV developments, Hiroshi Miyai, said that the changes should be quite simple, claiming that the discs would simply need some kind of flag to identify image data, equipment and other elements supporting 3D imagery. "We really don't need any other major changes," he said.
That's all very well, but Blu-ray is already causing some problems for early adopters thanks to players' varying support for Profile 1.1 and Profile 2.0, and not all can be updated with a firmware upgrade. This proposed standard for 3D will have to ensure backward compatibility so that those without 3D equipment (the vast majority of viewers, I'd suggest) don't suddenly find newer Blu-ray discs refusing to play in their machines.
3D's all very nice, but we'll have to wait at least a couple of years before it's commercially available.
(Via CD Freaks)
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