2015-10-24, 02:53
This is all really great info guys! I really appreciate it. Like I said, I'm not in the market but am performing base level research. I'm not sure what your references are as far as Active and Passive 3D. Are you referring to the 3D glasses, being active shutter (and thus require wires running to the player or wireless and requiring batteries) and Passive being a method of polarization? If I'm correct, I would think the Passive would be the better way to go for cost and expandability. I could easily see an active shutter set of glasses would be more expensive than just a polarized filter in the lens. My dad grew up with Active Shutter style 3D and said they're far superior, but I'm not so sure how they would be in a home environment.
Also something I'm not sure about is all the different 3D formats that are out there. When my dad and I were fooling around with his new BluRay player, we found a video addon that streamed 3D stuff (gimmicky type 3D view of earth from the ISS, etc). Since he doesn't have a 3D tv, it showed 2 frames side by side (SBS?). Then in another one video, it showed 2 frames overlapping and slightly off (like Red/Cyan style comics, etc). If I were to purchase a TV, would I be limited to a specific format of 3D? I'm not sure what my movies are that I have, but say they're SBS, would a non-SBS 3D not be able to play it then? Or is this all not even a matter of issue, because the TV can convert whatever signal it receives to be able to output?
Also something I'm not sure about is all the different 3D formats that are out there. When my dad and I were fooling around with his new BluRay player, we found a video addon that streamed 3D stuff (gimmicky type 3D view of earth from the ISS, etc). Since he doesn't have a 3D tv, it showed 2 frames side by side (SBS?). Then in another one video, it showed 2 frames overlapping and slightly off (like Red/Cyan style comics, etc). If I were to purchase a TV, would I be limited to a specific format of 3D? I'm not sure what my movies are that I have, but say they're SBS, would a non-SBS 3D not be able to play it then? Or is this all not even a matter of issue, because the TV can convert whatever signal it receives to be able to output?