TDVision Systems has chosen Magnum Semiconductor for what it says will be the world’s first 1080p stereoscopic 3D (1920x1080 per-eye) real-time encoder.

The new system applies TDVision’s approach (“Encode Once, Deploy Everywhere”) to HD stereoscopic 3D digital video streams—designed to result in an H.264 “3D-ready” video format that can be deployed on Blu-ray Disc (1080p) and various other platforms like DBS, cable and IPTV—as well as studio dailies and live-event streaming to cinemas.

The encoder will tap into TDVision’s proprietary technology (2D+Delta TDVCodec) to compress video streams at full resolution while maintaining backward-compatibility with existing displays in 2D HD—along with forward-compatibility with existing (and future) 3D-ready displays and methods.

The system does “comparison shopping” between left- and right-source frames and subsequently compresses the video information based on redundancies between the two, resulting in stereoscopic compression at less than 200 percent of a 2D video stream.

TDVision said its codec has been referenced by ISO, JVT and MPEG as a “core patent” for future stereoscopic 3D video standards.

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