It was hard to find a killer theme at IBC this year but if there was one it was "3D". The hype surrounding 3D movies and television was there even if, in most cases, the products weren't. In many cases companies hi-jacked the hype and announced 3D Television - only to produce a psuedo3D GUI. Over at ITVT there is rather an amusing article on this...
However, though we didn't join the hype pool, Alticast did show something interesting. Alticast presented a 3D Video on Demand user interface running at high frame rates and full HD resolution. It was powered by a Broadcom chipset (7400) but the important point is that it was a Java 3D application, to be precise a GEM application using JSR 239.
JSR 239, also known as JOGL by some, is simply Java bindings for OpenGL-ES. This means that the C level calls of the OGL-ES drivers are duplicated at Java level. This standard sits alongside GEM and allows for GEM/MHP/tru2way/BluRay/ACAP applications to use any 3D graphics chips.
About Me
- Chris Thornborrow
- Graphics guy who moved into digital TV 9 years ago. My interests lie in graphics and user interfaces for DTV. I am the inventor of EGG, a pseudo-3D graphics library for set top boxes with no 3D hardware. Opinions expressed on this blog are mine, not those of my employer Alticast.
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