DLP 3D compatibility???

[T-Bird]

Hi.

The title says it all.

I can't get it to work, the pic is blurry and unfocused and alltogether very weird colourwise.

Is it because of the particular way that the picture is composed in DLP technology, or has someone got it working like it should.

Any info is appreciated.

Regards.
Sam



Ps. The main reason for the thread is that I just saw Avatar in 3D yesterday and I'm hooked. The previous 3D experiences haven't been all that great for me, so I wasn't too concerned about it not working, but this time it truly was a great one. At least to me .

[WashburnBasser]

Originally Posted by T-Bird

Hi.
the pic is blurry and unfocused and alltogether very weird colourwise.

You sure you're wearing 3D glasses?

[Chunk-O-Funk]

Originally Posted by WashburnBasser

You sure you're wearing 3D glasses?

You know, he's got a point.
I walked into a Best Buy a few month ago and they had a very large TV on display with a movie playing. The very picture quality you mentioned is what I was looking at. At first I thought to myself, what the heck is wrong with this TV, then figured it must be a 3D movie.

So, did you have some 3D glasses.

Originally Posted by T-Bird

Ps. The main reason for the thread is that I just saw Avatar in 3D yesterday and I'm hooked. The previous 3D experiences haven't been all that great for me, so I wasn't too concerned about it not working, but this time it truly was a great one. At least to me .

Found this over at AVS.

Originally Posted by Blu-Whale @ AVSforums

With 'Avatar' close at hand, the Blu-ray 3D spec is launched

Now that the theatrical release of James Cameron's Avatar is only hours away, the Blu-Ray Disc Association has announced the final release of the Blu-ray 3D specification.

During Panasonic's keynote at CES 2009, Cameron spoke about the production of Avatar and his collaboration with Panasonic on the acceleration of 3D Blu-ray technology. The film, which debuts nationwide at 12:01 am tonight, was filmed with new stereoscopic cameras that were still in development as filming took place. Panasonic, as well as other Blu-ray Disc Association member companies, devoted floorspace at CES to showing off the possibilities of 3D in the home.

Today, Victor Matsuda, chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association's Global Promotions Committee said, "Throughout this year, moviegoers have shown an overwhelming preference for 3D when presented with the option to see a theatrical release in either 3D or 2D. We believe this demand for 3D content will carry over into the home now that we have, in Blu-ray Disc, a medium that can deliver a quality Full HD 3D experience to the living room."

The BDA says that the Blu-ray 3D specification encodes 3D video using the Multiview Video Coding (MVC) codec, an extension to the ITU-T H.264 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) codec currently supported by all Blu-ray Disc players.

"MPEG4-MVC compresses both left and right eye views with a typical 50% overhead compared to equivalent 2D content, and can provide full 1080p resolution backward compatibility with current 2D Blu-ray Disc players. The specification also incorporates enhanced graphic features for 3D," a statement from the group said.

A BD-3D player will be able to be hooked up to any display and output three dimensional imagery, the BDA said today, and the most popular Blu-ray player of all time, Sony's PlayStation 3, has been taken into consideration in the spec. The consoles will reportedly be able to support the discs.

"3D playback will require a new player in most cases," Pioneer's Andy Parsons, Chairman of Promotion at the Blu-ray Disc Association told Betanews this morning. "Some existing playback systems might be capable of a retroactive upgrade to 3D playback if they were designed to accommodate it, but this would most likely be the exception and not the rule. The new 3D specifications do provide a way for 3D titles to be played in 2D on existing players if they are authored this way -- this is a studio decision."

So to answer the question: Blu-ray 3D discs are designed to be compatible with standard BD players, they just won't be in 3D when played back in one.

The Spec will be available to manufacturers soon, and the BDA expects the first Blu-ray 3D products to be available in 2010.

The cool thing is movies like Avatar will be released in 3D, but it's newer, different technology than the 3D we already have. You will need a compatible Bluray player. Assuming that post is accurate.

[T-Bird]

Hi.

Originally Posted by WashburnBasser

You sure you're wearing 3D glasses?

Originally Posted by Chunk-O-Funk

So, did you have some 3D glasses.

Good point guys.

I have to rain on Your parade by saying that yes, I did have 3D glasses on.

The thing is, the picture didn't look all that different with, or without the glasses, hence the thread. Some differences, true, but the colours were all wrong. Terribly wrong.

I was just wondering whether the peculiarities of the DLP image forming technology had something to do with the failure to form a 3D image.

OTOH, the "raimbow" effect associated closely with DLP bothers me much more than anyone else who has a DLP device. Most of them have never even noticed anything.

Thanks for the link Chunk-O-Funk, an interesting read.

Regards
Sam