DVB 3D-TV is a new standard that partially came out at the end of 2010 which included techniques and procedures to send a three dimensional video signal through actual DVB transmission standards (Cable, Terrestrial or Satellital). Currently there is a commercial requirement text for 3D TV broadcasters and Set-top box manufacturers, but no technical information is in there.

Nowadays 3D television technology is already in its first steps regarding its standardization, now the major 3D market is in theaters and Blu-Ray Disc players with stereoscopic systems, but in the near future it will be extended to diffusion, and later Free viewpoint television will come into our homes, which means the need of new coding and transmission standards.

The implantation of first generation of DVB 3D-TV will be staggered:

Matrix of signal formats for 3DTV:

Regarding how a signal once it's decoded is sent to the display, current stereoscopic systems use a frame-sequential 3D signal. Left and right frames are sent alternately to the display and by diverse systems like shuttered glasses or polarized glasses are then shown to each eye. This involves that the real frame frequency halves the video frame frequency.

A 3D television (3DTV) is a television set that projects a television program into a realistic three-dimensional field by employing techniques such as stereoscopic display, multi-view display, 2D-plus-depth, or any other form of 3D display.

In the late 1890s, the British film pioneer William Friese-Greene filed a patent for a 3-D movie process. When viewed stereoscopically, it showed that the two images are combined by the brain to produce 3-D depth perception. On 10 June 1915, Edwin S. Porter and William E. Waddell presented tests to an audience at the Astor Theater in New York City. In red-green anaglyph, the audience was presented three reels of tests, which included rural scenes, test shots of Marie Doro, a segment of John Mason playing a number of passages from Jim the Penman (a film released by Famous Players-Lasky that year, but not in 3-D), Oriental dancers, and a reel of footage of Niagara Falls.[19] However, according to Adolph Zukor in his 1953 autobiography The Public Is Never Wrong: My 50 Years in the Motion Picture Industry, nothing was produced in this process after these tests.