Shortly, movies on Blu-ray Disc will offer consumers a backup copy capability that could be played on a variety of devices.

The way managed copy is expected to work is that a consumer would insert their disc in a Blu-ray player or drive and the disc’s menu would include an option to make a managed copy or the consumer might have to press some buttons on their Blu-ray device to make a copy. Once they choose the option to make a copy, the Blu-ray player connects online to an authorization server, run by a studio, supplier or the AACS-LA. Discs are serialized, and the authentication server will determine if a copy is allowed.

Managed copies can be burned to recordable Blu-ray or DVD discs, as a download to a Windows Media DRM-compatible portable player or hard drive, on a memory stick, SD card or as a bound copy, such as a digital copy file on the disc, though AACS-LA can approve other methods going forward.

On Nov. 11, I’ll be at the 4th China 3D World International Forum & Exhibition in China presenting information about the 3D@Home Consortium (Sigma Designs is a board member) and an overview of the 3D Video market. Some of the topics include what IPTV, Cable, Internet streaming, etc. are looking at doing to support 3D Video.

There is also a BDA seminar where we’ll be presenting high-quality video processing for Blu-ray players to improve the playback quality of DVD and Internet streaming content. And yes, it also improves Blu-ray playback quality.

According to CableLabs, the 3DTV Pavilion will include the first demonstration of synchronized, full-color, HD stereoscopic 3D video signals being transmitted over a single cable channel on a real cable system. Unlike the 3D-TV delivery of the past that used colored glasses, this new system works with next-generation 3D-ready TVs that use either polarized or active shutter glasses. The 3,400-square-foot booth will located on the Cable-Tec Expo floor in the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. The show is set to run Oct. 28-30.

Earlier this year, CableLabs began formally investigating the issue of delivering 3DTV over cable infrastructure, to evaluate the different technologies in the market.

Users won’t have to upgrade their television sets to be able to experience 3D television claims John Lowry an imaging industry veteran and creator of a new 3D technology called TrioScopics3D.

The new 3D tech doesn’t require the viewer to upgrade their new television set or DVD/Blu-ray player and in fact can already be see in movies already out. The technology, which is based on the Anaglyph method of using a blue and red filter over your eyes, takes the technology one step further introducing a new color system (green and magenta) and better image processing and encoding on the disc.

Toshiba has confirmed that they are close to launching a 3840×2160p HDTV which will include a 64-bit Cell processor, Blu ray player, and a 1TB recorder.