Association for the development of Blu-ray discs announced the finalization of the specification of Blu-ray 3D and its release into circulation. Specification Blu-ray 3D fully utilizes the technical advantages of Blu-ray disc providing picture quality and consistency and compatibility across all lines of products that support Blu-ray 3D format including both hardware and software. In particular the specification provides that every Blu-ray 3D player and movie will delight the audience a picture with a resolution of 1080p Full HD quality, saving thus leading position in image quality among the media industry, accustomed to the adherents of Blu-ray discs. Moreover the specification makes the products are not dependent on the type of display, ie, Blu-ray 3D products will be able to reproduce three-dimensional image on any display that supports 3D format, regardless of the technology of the display – LED, plasma, or any other. Also it does not matter on the basis of a 3D image technology reaches the eye of the viewer.

Specification for Blu-ray 3D is also designed to provide support for Blu-ray 3D content in a 3D format gaming consoles such as PS3. In addition the specification provides support for 2D disks future 3D players as well as playing in a 2D format Blu-ray 3D disk players to Blu-ray.

On Blu-ray 3D specification for encoding 3D video codec provides the application of Multiview Video Coding (MVC), update codec ITU-T H.264 Advanced Video Coding (AVC). Codec MPEG4-MVC compresses the image to the left and right eye, increasing the amount of data is only 50% compared with the 2D content, while maintaining full backward compatibility with existing 1080p players 2D Blu-ray discs. The specification also describes the advanced graphics features 3D. These features provide users with new features such as three-dimensional navigation through menus, or three-dimensional display of the subtitles in 3D movies.