The Steering Board of the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) consortium has approved the new DVB-3DTV specification, which will now be submitted immediately to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for formal standardisation.

The specification specifies the delivery system for frame compatible plano-stereoscopic 3DTV services, enabling service providers to utilise their existing HDTV infrastructures to deliver 3DTV services that are compatible with 3DTV-capable displays already in the market.

The DVB-3DTV specification is also accompanied by the Subtitling Systems specification, which provides a mechanism that allows subtitles and other onscreen graphics to be best positioned so that they can be viewed correctly, as well as containing amendments to the Service Information specification and to the specification of audio and video coding over the MPEG-2 transport stream.

Plano-stereoscopic imaging system deliver two images (left and right) that are arranged to be seen simultaneously (or near simultaneously) by the left and right eyes, enabling viewers to perceive increased depth in the picture.  Many 3D-capable televisions and 3D channels and content services have been launched in the past 12 months, and approval of this new 3DTV specification will likely prove a key stepping stone towards a more widespread acceptance of 3DTV services.

The new DVB-3DTV specification and commercial requirements can be viewed here

See this original post here: http://www.iptv-news.com/iptv_news/february_2011_2/dvb-3dtv_spec_approved

This is the direct link to the 28 page document: http://www.dvb.org/technology/standards/a154_DVB-3DTV_Spec.pdf