IEEE announced the ratification of IEEE 802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet, a new standard governing 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Ethernet operations. According to the statement, an amendment to the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard, IEEE 802.3ba, the first standard ever to simultaneously specify two new Ethernet speeds, paves the way for the next generation of …
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ECMA International announced that its 99th General Assembly, held in Tokyo, June 17, 2010, has approved updates to its ECMA-379 standard (3rd edition) for estimating the archival lifetime of optical media as well as ECMA-382 (2nd edition), which defines the physical parameters of DVD-R Dual-Layer (DL) discs.
WHDI LLC announced the technical features that will be included in upcoming versions of the Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI) specification. According to the statement, WHDI LLC plans release in Q4 2010 a WHDI 3D specification update that will document WHDI support for all 3D formats required by HDMI 1.4a. Following the 3D update, the …
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The WirelessHD Consortium announced immediate availability of the WirelessHD 1.1 specification, announced this January at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). According to the statement, this next generation WirelessHD specification enables HDTVs, Blu-ray Disc (BD) players, PCs and portable devices to transmit, share and display content in billions of colors with unprecedented vividness and accuracy as …
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Dolby announced its new open specification for broadcast 3D delivery, which details how 3D images can be encoded and carried using frame-compatible techniques through a conventional 2D broadcast infrastructure.
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) announced that it expects to release in the next few months specifications for High Capacity Recordable and Rewritable discs (BDXL) and Intra-Hybrid discs (IH-BD). According to the statement, the BDXL specification, which is targeted primarily at commercial segments such as broadcasting, medical and document imaging enterprises with significant archiving needs, …
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The DVB Project announced that it is tackling 3DTV, one of the hottest subjects in the media world today. According to the statement, many alternative systems have been developed for first generation 3DTV. Broadcasters in different parts of the world have announced their intention to start 3DTV broadcasting this year (2010). There are test broadcasts …
HDMI Licensing, LLC announced the release of the HDMI specification version 1.4a featuring key enhancements for 3D applications including the addition of mandatory 3D formats for broadcast content as well as the addition of the 3D format referred to as Top-and-Bottom.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced that the Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) and ISO/IEC have launched a new project that seeks to improve upon the Advanced Video Codec ITU-T Rec. H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10.
HDMI Licensing, LLC announced that it has made the 3D portion of the HDMI Specification Version 1.4 available for public download.
The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital television in the UK, announced it plans to lead the development of a UK standard for 3DTV products and services.