Blu-Ray 3D™

The Blu-ray 3D™ specification allows the home entertainment industry to bring 3D movies directly into living rooms. While this new standard leverages the technical features of the existing Blu-ray Disc™ format, it also provides a number of enhancements to support a high quality Full HD 3D viewing experience. — This paper will aim to provide an overview of the new features for Blu-ray 3D such as the new compression scheme called Multiview Video Coding (MVC), which enables a disc to contain a Full HD 1080p resolution per eye and at the same time allows for full 2D backwards compatibility. — In addition, to the support for the new codec, Blu-ray 3D also allows for enhanced 3D interactivity and subtitles. There are a number of different ways to implement 3D graphical elements and interactivity - from leveraging 2D elements positioned in z-space all the way to real 3D elements. All of these options have a different impact on production and the user experience. — A key challenge for any 3D format is to creatively manage the various objects positioned in z-space. Since video objects and various graphical overlays all have a depth associated to them, it is important to ensure they don't interfere with each other by creating conflicting visual impressions. — This presentation will address the possibilities to efficiently manage this third dimension in a production environment and also discusses the required changes to the production processes to release titles in this new format.

Published

2010-07

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

Blu-ray 3D, Multiview Video Coding, MPEG-4 MVC, Base view, Dependent View, Offset Metadata, BD-Java, BD-J, 3D graphics, 3D Subtitling, Disparity Map

DOI

10.5594/M001412

ISBN

978-1-61482-950-8