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Sony PS3 and 3D

post #1 of 5
7/12/10 at 6:53pm
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Sony claims that the Playstation 3 game console will be able to play Blu-ray 3D titles through the upcoming firmware upgrade coming in September.

Sony has already released a firmware update for the PS3 last month, offering compatibility with 3D games.

The situation for the Blu-ray 3D support is different. The latest version of the HDMI standard 1.4 supports both the 3D transmission and the Blu-ray 3D content (MVC Multiview Coding - variant of MEPG-4 H.264 used for BD 3D). The PS3 is equipped with an HDMI 1.3 output, but the Blu-ray 3D needs HDMI 1.4-compatible hardware. As a result, Sony's engineers should address the issue of how legacy hardware (with HDMI 1.3 ports) will cope with the Full HD from an MVC Blu-ray Disc.

Sony assures users that the firmware upgrade would make every PlayStation 3 HDMI 1.4 compatible, in order to pass the Blu-ray 3D content to an 3D HDTV. Although this one should be further examined in practise, it means that there is no setup at all required. If you have a PlayStation a simple connection of the PS3's HDMI cable will be enough to make the PS3 automatically recognise that a 3D display is attached. The PS3 will also know the size of the screen as well, which is very important for actually rendering 3D correctly, Sony claims.

Later this year, Sony's PS3 is also expected to get support for 3D photos and reproduction of Youtube 3D content (when available).
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post #2 of 5
7/13/10 at 9:57am
Yeh, I don't plan on buying a 3D TV any time soon. So this means very little to me.
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post #3 of 5
7/13/10 at 11:41am
well nearly all new TVs seem to claim they have 3D functionality (or at least the DLPs), so unless I end up finding something cheap in the local classifieds that someone needs to part with I'm going to end up with a 3D TV when I get a new HDTV

not that I'll really care to use the function, but it will be there

and I thought there was an electrical difference in HDMI 1.4 cables/ports

EDIT: oh, just for the ethernet aspect I guess:

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Originally Posted by bluejeanscable.com
Ethernet Channel
Specification version 1.4 introduced the new optional "Ethernet and Audio Return Channel." Unlike prior changes to the features and protocols supported by the spec, this change actually requires some alteration to the HDMI cable design. The connectors remain the same, and the pins still map as they did before, but two conductors have been given new additional tasks to perform, and because the bitrate to run through these conductors is rather high, the specification requires that they be run as a 100-ohm twisted pair. Prior cable designs did not run these conductors as a twisted pair, and so the impedance of the pair in a non-Ethernet cable could be almost anything, most likely unsuited for high-speed data.

It is important to remember that the Ethernet and Audio Return Channel is an optional HDMI cable feature. In other words, a cable which was compliant under any prior spec version continues to be compliant under HDMI 1.4 -- it is simply classified as a cable without Ethernet -- and new cables can continue to be certified compliant under HDMI 1.4 and its accompanying Compliance Testing Specification, again as non-Ethernet-capable cables. The version number of the certification does not in itself say anything about the cable's capabilities.
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post #4 of 5
7/13/10 at 12:09pm
actually as long as you TV is compatible with HDMI 1.4a and has 120 Hz, it is capable of 3D. You don't need the 3D brand.
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post #5 of 5
7/13/10 at 5:20pm
Pointless.
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