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A press release from Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC) talks about some new Stereo 3D products that are coming in their next Roxio suite.  On the high-end, they’re bringing in BluRay 3D Authoring capabilities to the “Hollywood Studios” (No mention of consumers there, so presumably this will be ridiculously expensive).  For more “consumer” interest, they’ve offering the CinePlayer BD which will support 3D BluRay titles and, get this, online video providers and real-time conversion of 2D to 3D, “allowing 3D viewing of a user’s existing library of standard DVD’s and personal home movies”.  They also have some interesting technology called “Video Lab 3d”:

Roxio Video Lab 3D, a new consumer product from Sonic, allows consumers to edit and burn personal 3D content on standard DVDs; these discs can then be played back on any standard DVD or Blu-ray player connected to 3D-enabled HDTVs or PCs.

In addition, it seems that the new ASUS G-Series notebook will come with 120hz panels and 3D Glasses, and ship with CinePlayer ready to go in 3D.

Great to see it coming to mainstream, but it sounds like they’ve added a lot of flakey “experimental” technology to it for no real benefit. Automatic 2D to 3D conversion?  3D DVD?  Guess we’ll just have to wait and see how well it works (or doesn’t).

via Roxio

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A reflexive announcement today from NVidia, apparently responding to yesterday’s news of the AMD and Cyberlink CES demo of 3D BluRay.  It seems NVidia has been leveraging their existing 3D technology, the 3D Vision system, and has a working 3D BluRay system based on the AVC Multi-View Codec, which can be real-time decoded on select NVidia GPU’s (using CUDA acceleration).

“The performance of the GeForce GPUs is great for decoding the Multi-View Codec (MVC) used in 3D Blu-ray,” said Michael Demeyer, VP of Corporate Products at Roxio. “We are now demonstrating 3D Blu-ray playback with GPU decoding in Roxio CinePlayer BD. The experience with NVIDIA’s 3D Vision glasses is out of this world.”

Of course, consumers will need a compatible 3D Vision display to watch upcoming 3D Hollywood blockbusters in the home. As a result, the world’s leading display manufacturers are readying new 3D-Vision-ready, 1920×1080, 120Hz 1080p LCDs for introduction in 2010, and Acer will be first to market with its new GD245HQ and GD235HZ models that are perfect for gaming, videos and other home entertainment uses, including 3D Blu-ray content.

But, lest you think battle lines have been drawn and it’s going to be NVidia/Roxio vs AMD/Cyberlink :

“3D Blu-ray will be the leading format for watching 3D movies in the home,” said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. “PCs with Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra and NVIDIA 3D Vision will provide movie lovers the perfect platform for experiencing 3D the way it was meant to be seen.”

So which do you think will win? NVidia or AMD?

via NVIDIA Demos 3D Blu-Ray On 3D Vision – HotHardware.

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