Optoma Release 3D Upgrade Firmware for Projectors

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Optoma today announced the immediate availability of a free firmware download that will allow all owners of the HD65, HD700X and GT7000 to upgrade their home cinema projectors to full 3D compatibility with the Optoma 3D-XL Projector Adapter.

The world’s first 3D projector adapter, the 3D-XL, simply connects between a 3D source and any 3D Ready DLP projector for a big screen 3D experience at home. The projector adapter is compatible with 3D broadcast signals such as Sky 3D, 3D Blu-ray players and 3D games from PS3 and Xbox 360. Featuring 2 x HDMI 1.4a connections, the 3D-XL allows two separate sources to be connected simultaneously.

Justin Halls, Head of Product Management at Optoma Europe commented, “The 3D-XL has been an enormous success so it makes sense to make this technology available to our huge base of HD65, HD700X and GT7000 owners. We wanted to ensure that access to 3D images from the likes of Sky, Sony® PS3 and Xbox is available to as many of our customers as possible. At Optoma, we believe that the best way to watch 3D is on the biggest screen possible and with a projector such as the HD65 and with 3D-XL technology this mean huge images, potentially greater than 100” are possible.”

The download and installation instructions are available now from the Optoma website here: www.optoma.co.uk/3dhd65. Steve actually has a 3D-XL in for testing at the moment so we'll give our verdict shortly.

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</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 12.75pt"><TD style="BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; PADDING-LEFT: 5.4pt; WIDTH: 162pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 5.4pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0cm" vAlign=bottom width=216>Dimensions (W x D x H)


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</TD><TD style="BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; PADDING-LEFT: 5.4pt; WIDTH: 211.95pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 5.4pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; HEIGHT: 12.75pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0cm" vAlign=bottom width=283>RS232 9-Pin D-Sub


</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 25.5pt"><TD style="BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; PADDING-LEFT: 5.4pt; WIDTH: 162pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 5.4pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; HEIGHT: 25.5pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0cm" vAlign=bottom width=216>2D Video Compatibility


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</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 35.65pt"><TD style="BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; PADDING-LEFT: 5.4pt; WIDTH: 162pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 5.4pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; HEIGHT: 35.65pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0cm" vAlign=bottom width=216>3D Video Compatibility


</TD><TD style="BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; PADDING-LEFT: 5.4pt; WIDTH: 211.95pt; PADDING-RIGHT: 5.4pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; HEIGHT: 35.65pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 12px; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0cm" vAlign=bottom width=283>Side-by-side: 1080i50, 1080i60
Frame-pack: 1080p24, 720p50, 720p60
Over-under: 1080p24, 720p50, 720p60


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Wonderful news. I was going to either ditch my HD65 or Panasonic Plasma and upgrade to 3-D now it looks like I won't have too :clap:
 

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