Another company making 3D news is Sensio, from Montreal. Unlike the others, Sensio is not a
3D format but a transport system that encodes the two separate eye channels into one data
channel so it can be efficiently sent through existing satellite links. Sensio uses what is said to be
visually lossless spatial compression between the two eye channels to reduce the bandwidth to
that of a single channel. In the cinema, Sensio equipment decodes the transmitted data back into
the left-eye and right-eye channels, where they can be fed into the projector equipped for a
specific 3D system, such as Real D, Dolby or XpanD. Therefore, Sensio 3D is a delivery
technique that works upstream from the existing 3D formats.
Recently, International Datacasting Corporation, (IDC), partnered with AccessIT, announced the
initial deployment of the “CineLive” solution utilizing Sensio decoder technology to 50 theatres
across the United States, with plans to increase deployment to 150 theatres by the end of 2008.
“With this first implementation, we have secured our lead over the competition and increased our
visibility, as we have agreement that the Sensio brand"