Are you excited for Blu-ray 3D in 2010?

[syncguy]

Originally Posted by JamesN

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The upcoming Blu-ray specs for 3D are expected to call for two separate 1080p streams. Presumably, the two streams would need to be fed to a display in frame sequential fashion -- that is one frame from the right stream followed by the corresponding frame from the left stream and so on.

Future 3D displays will support frame sequential feeds, but the current generation of "3D ready" TVs do not. They can only handle their proprietary "checkerboard" input. In order for the current 3D TVs to work with frame sequential input, each pair of full 1080p left/right frames would need to be interlaced into the checkerboard pattern described above before being fed to the display. So half of the pixels in each frame would need to be thrown away. That is what I meant by "downconverting".

I'm not saying that current "3D ready" TVs won't work at all with upcoming Blu-ray 3D content. I'm just saying some pre-processing will be necessary.

Thanks. Probably an external box would be needed to convert standard 3D signal to interface with current 3D sets with a proprietary interface. Since two 1080p streams are needed for 3D to get full advantage of 1080p HD, it is unlikely current TV sets would give you the full benefit of 3D-fullHD.