On August 13, 2009, the first version of the standard was released. This standard is only a recommendation for anime from Blu-ray and its purpose is to improve quality over the then current HDX standard. The document reads that anime was always something special for the video codec experts at Doom9. Without anime there wouldn't be any VirtualDub or many other video related things at all. This is why they decided to put out new standard to enjoy almost lossless anime quality.