3DTV

Ed's View - The Next "Big Thing" - 3DTV

Autostereoscopic 3DTV remains technically unrealized, but converging technologies point toward viable mass-market deployment within five years. Key enablers include the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard with native 3D support, HEVC compression at 4:4:4 sampling and 10-bit color depth, Light-Field Camera systems capable of correcting stereo depth cues that cause eye strain, and nanolens display arrays that attach multi-element optics to individual RGB sub-pixels to create unlimited glasses-free viewing sweet spots. For consumers, this means the cumbersome glasses requirement that helped derail the first wave of 3DTV could be eliminated by the end of the decade.