Now enjoy the cinema experience right in the living room thanks to the advancements in technology – the Blu-ray discs. Blu-ray Disc Association Global Promotions Chairman, Victor Matsuda says that the increasing demand for 3D movies in theatres bodes well for the full HD 3D experience that only a Blu-ray disc can provide. The credit also goes to manufacturers like Sony who have introduced this phenomenon in their gaming display screens.

Though ideally the discs should be played on a Blu-ray player, they also function on non-compatible players, but in the traditional 2-D form ensuring backward compatibility. This double feature comes in handy with Hollywood biggies like Warner and Disney releasing all blu-ray discs with a DVD discs at the same price calling them ‘Combo Discs’.

The Blu-ray technology involves encoding two separate 1080p frames together using the Multiview Video Coding (MVC) extension to the H. 264 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) codec—one of the codecs already supported for creating Blu-ray discs. This method allows the two separate views, one for each eye, to be compressed together in such a way that common elements from both views are melded together. The resulting format relies on an extension to the H. 264 encoding standard, and provides for a fallback to 2D output on players that can't decode the separate stereoscopic images.