At NAB, a panel discussion was held to discuss the in-progress 3D standards and had several people from the committee working to build the public standards. For those of you waiting for an official public standard on 3D, you may be a bit disheartened to hear this comment from Ted Szypulski, senior director, technology, research & standards for ESPN 3D and a member of the SMPTE 10E40 Working Group on the 3D Home Master.
“We are not dealing with standards for delivery to the home, but standards for the master that can be interchanged with other 3D content creators and those who distribute the material meant to go to the home,” he explained. “From our work statement, we will generate specifications for the 3D home master for the carriage of 3D content between mastering facilities and the ingest facility of a distribution system.”
Add in that the 10E40 Working Group contains 132 members over 4 groups focusing separately on Metadata, Image Format, Subtitles, and Overlays. StudioDaily has a great writeup of the whole panel talk, and is definitely worth a read.
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