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3D Blu Ray DVDs!

The super expensive Blu Ray technology finally looks inviting - Sony announced on Thursday that there will be 3D Blu Ray discs available by 2010, enabling you to watch movies in full high definition and in 3D, all at the comfort of your home.
The move indicates that 3D movies have finally arrived. The release of James Cameron's 'Avatar' has surely sparked the interest of Sony to manufacture DVDs that people would actually spend bucketloads to get. 'Avatar' is a spectacular movie and is widely regarded as the game changer in terms of 3D movies. Very few people would buy a Blu Ray DVD of Avatar and watch it on a tiny TV screem, specially after witnessing the 3D spectacle in a giant IMAX screen.
3D Blu-ray will use the new Multiview Video Coding (MVC) codec, which is an extension to the MPEG-4 AVC codec used today on BR discs. The discs will roll out in late 2010 along with the players. The best part? Both the discs and players will be backwards compatible with existing 2D Blu-ray players. Also, Sony's Playstation 3 console will be fully compatible with these 3D Blu Ray DVDs. Of course, you would need to buy 3D glasses a new HD television since only newer TVs support stereoscopic 3D.
There have already been 3D DVDs in 2009 - the stop motion masterpiece 'Coraline' made its way into homes, but its DVDs used the inferior red/blue anaglyph method of 3D, and the resulting picture is noticeably worse looking than the theatrical 3D prints which use polarized glasses. By the time 'Avatar' releases on Home Video, these 3D Blu Ray players will have made their way into the market.