{"id":355072,"date":"2010-02-23T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5478082"},"modified":"2010-02-23T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T15:20:00","slug":"the-signal-that-stops-your-old-tv-from-supporting-3d-but-allows-the-ps3-home-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/355072","title":{"rendered":"The Signal That Stops Your Old TV From Supporting 3D, But Allows the PS3 [Home Theater]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe you have a super awesome 240Hz LCD. Technically, its refresh rate should probably support new FHD3D (full 3D HD) Blu-ray signals. But it can’t because of this diagram (by HDGuru3D<\/a>)—how the information is sent to your television.<\/p>\n

It’s called over\/under, and rather than a single 1920×1080 frame beaming from your Blu-ray player to your TV, it’s a double stack, a 1920×2205 image (representing left eye and right eye frames along with some active blanking for audio and extra info). The signal fires at a bitrate of 6.75Gbps.<\/p>\n

Bottom line, the fancy TV in your house now was never designed to accommodate a 1920×2205 image.<\/p>\n

That FHD3D bitrate is an important point, however, because while many of us have claimed HDMI 1.4<\/a> is needed for FHD3D, that’s not completely true. HDMI 1.3<\/a> and 1.4 both have throughputs of 10.2Gbps. And because of this basic rule of bandwidth, the smartest HDMI 1.3 devices, those using software instead of systems on a chip (like the PS3) will be able to make the FHD3D transition.<\/p>\n

As Gary Merson from HDGuru put it to us, “There is nothing inherent in HDMI 1.3 that would prohibit FHD3D signals from passing through.”<\/p>\n

I’m not going to rewrite his entire article here. But if you’re a home theater<\/a> enthusiast, I’d strongly recommend his walkthrough of 3D tech, the new HDMI 1.4 standard and what it will mean to differing devices (and even the cords!) in your system. Because being a couch potato just got a lot more complicated. [HDGuru<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Maybe you have a super awesome 240Hz LCD. Technically, its refresh rate should probably support new FHD3D (full 3D HD) Blu-ray signals. But it can’t because of this diagram (by HDGuru3D)—how the information is sent to your television. It’s called over\/under, and rather than a single 1920×1080 frame beaming from your Blu-ray player to your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}