sky hd3d . will it be sd ??

admin_exported

New member
Aug 10, 2019
2,556
5
0
as i understand it , sky are going with the passive hd3d format , so there will be two images on screen at the same time , and both images cant be full hd , so if your watching sky 3d , on a tv that uses the active shutter system , you will lose resolution , whereas watching a 3d blu-ray on a similar tv , it will all be 1080p , does anyone know if this is correct ??
 
Sky will be using a polarised glasses system, so I guess the best it can achieve is an effective resolution of 720i, unless my understanding is way off the mark
 
maxflinn:as i understand it , sky are going with the passive hd3d format , so there will be two images on screen at the same time , and both images cant be full hd , so if your watching sky 3d , on a tv that uses the active shutter system , you will lose resolution , whereas watching a 3d blu-ray on a similar tv , it will all be 1080p , does anyone know if this is correct ??

I know this doesn't answer your question, but I want to give my opinion on Sky 3D.

When I go to a cinema and watch films such as Avatar, Ice Age 3, etc... in 3D I love it! The screen fills up my line of site and it is a 'blast'. However... my TV screen at my house by no means whatsoever fills up my line of site. It takes up about 40% of what a cinema screen would. So this leads me to believe that Sky 3D won't be as exciting as I may expect. It may give incline depth, but not outline.

I may be completely wrong. I just don't think that the future of 3D should involve any type of glasses to experience it.
 
yes andrew , thats what i figured , whereas if you were watching a 3d blu-ray , on a tv using the active system , the screen shows two rapidly alternating 1080p images , the shutter glasses allowing each eye , to see a different image , tricking the brain into seeing a 1080p 3d image , so its already looking like the active system , will have an advantage ...

edit , so watching a 3d blu-ray , on such a tv will give a sharper , more detailed picture , than you would get in the cinema , even better than avatar ??
 
maxflinn:
yes andrew , thats what i figured , whereas if you were watching a 3d blu-ray , on a tv using the active system , the screen shows two rapidly alternating 1080p images , the shutter glasses allowing each eye , to see a different image , tricking the brain into seeing a 1080p 3d image , so its already looking like the active system , will have an advantage ...

edit , so watching a 3d blu-ray , on such a tv will give a sharper , more detailed picture , than you would get in the cinema , even better than avatar ??

In that case though, I believe you would need active shutter glasses, am i right?
 
They reduce the light by 50%. I have them with Nvidia 3D vision.
 
i thought the glases were down to the tv alone,

will certan 3d tvs not work with sky 3d
 
nodnarb4444:

i thought the glases were down to the tv alone,

will certan 3d tvs not work with sky 3d

This puzzles me also. If there are two different viewing systems -active shutter amd polarising- then presumably each system requires a different type of broadcast. Are we in VHS / Betamax , HDD / Blu ray territory again? Or am I misunderstanding something fundamental.
 
there are different glasses for the different tvs , lg are using the passive glasses , similar to the ones you would wear at the cinema , the tv shows two images ..

sony , panasonic , and samsung , use active shutter glasses , that only work with tvs using the active system , the tv shows one image , then another , extremely fast , one for each eye , the glasses only let one eye see each image at one time , this happens so fast , that the brain creates the 3d image , but using this system , means you will be able to have real 1080p 3d , the former , passive system cant do that ..

all 3d tvs will work with sky 3d , which is passive not active , the active tvs will have to do a bit more processing to display the passive image , but it can be done ..

p.s. if there are one , or several mistakes in that info , forgive me , i only read it myself a few hours ago
emotion-5.gif
 
Sky 3D will work with all 3D-capable TVs (and the existing Sky+HD box).

Different manufacturers have different glasses for their 3D TVs when viewing 3D Blu-ray content, and as far as we know so far these glasses may not be interchangeable between TVs.
 
It's all so confusing this 3D stuff. I was looking forward to choosing a new TV until 3D was announced. Now I don't know where to start. New Blu-Ray player, new TV, different screens with different glasses, HDMI 1.4.......then there's hooking it all up to a none 3D receiver (Denon 2310) assuming you can!!
emotion-7.gif
If most people on these forums aren't fully up to speed on 3D technology what chance has the average person that isn't interested in this sort of thing got?