[Stuart Wright]

Eric Kingdon shows us Blu-ray with an added dimension! The BDP-S770.

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[darkcloud2011]

Very interesting but sounds as though it will be a very pricey upgrade if you need to buy a new tv with hdmi 1.4 on it.

[amita]

Thanks for the video Phil and David and for the great questions. Just to clarify, as I'm not 100% sure from Erics reply to your question Phil, is that him confirming that current HDMI 1.3 receivers will not be able to pass through a 3D picture signal (therefore, not allowing the receiver to handle the HD audio stream)?

[HenryHonda]

Originally Posted by amita

Thanks for the video Phil and David and for the great questions. Just to clarify, as I'm not 100% sure from Erics reply to your question Phil, is that him confirming that current HDMI 1.3 receivers will not be able to pass through a 3D picture signal (therefore, not allowing the receiver to handle the HD audio stream)?

See my post here.

I think Eric and his colleague, refer to using the 'audio return' path feature of HDMI 1.4 to link back from a 3D TV to the receiver for audio. But I think they were being deliberately evasive about the details...

[amita]

Originally Posted by HenryHonda

See my post here.

I think Eric and his colleague, refer to using the 'audio return' path feature of HDMI 1.4 to link back from a 3D TV to the receiver for audio. But I think they were being deliberately evasive about the details...

Cheers Henry - just checked out your post on the Panasonic thread, and you're quite right about that Panny 3D player having 2 HDMI outputs. Good stuff.

[Noggin1980]

Arn't new receivers more of a late year type product? Are we going to have say a 4 month gap between hdmi 1.4 tv's/players and 1.4 receivers?

[namuk]

We all need to upgrade to 1.4 hdmi Tv's and amps to get this running right and want a Problem free Situation

[sinistro]

Sony Confirms 3D Gaming Firmware Update for PS3 | High-Def Digest

Sony Confirms 3D Gaming Firmware Update for PS3

As far I know the ps3 does have hdmi 1.3 so if 3D gaming is possible on 1.3 then why 1.4 needed like is said in the sony's video from the op?

[nehalem]

You can fudge most things on PS3 as you have Cell to do most of the work whereas BD player's don't have the grunt power.

[silkworm69]

Seems if the 3D scene is really going to pushed out this year, then all kit currently in the market is going to have issues with backwards compatibility ?

Am I wrong here....or is HDMI 1.4 a whole new kettle of fish ?

[Kalos Geros]

but my understandng is that you need a new TV set and a new player anyway - you need synchronisation for the active shutter glasses bulit into the set and you need a player that can read two 1080p streams, possibly a faster BD drive (although if you can do PiP normally on a standard BD player, it's the same thing - 2 streams running concurrently...but I really don't know why 1.4 is needed...1.3 is absolutely capable of 1920x1080@120Hz AFAIK....

i'm not stating anything, just thinkig aloud

[nehalem]

Indeed - either way you'll need a 3D TV and player ( or PS3). Presumably you'll need a 1.4 compatible amp also?