Group Preps Digital Content Registry

A new industry group, led by MovieLabs, CableLabs, Comcast and Rovi Corporation, announced the creation of its Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR).

CableLabs Publishes 3D Content Encoding Specification

CableLabs announced that it has published a new specification as a guide for producers, programmers and aggregators of stereoscopic 3D programming. According to the statement, this new specification, called Content Encoding Profiles 3.0 Specification (OC-SP-CEP3.0-I01-100827), details exact requirements for formatting (panelizing) the 3D content into a frame-compatible format for use by cable television systems.