HD and Video Sources

[Question145390]

can you watch a blue ray 3d movie on a regular lcd tv or do you have to have a 3d tv too?

[AudioDog]

Yep, you need to have both components 3D compatible.

[Juice0904]

Just as a note, you can absolutely watch 3D movies on a regular HDTV, you just can't watch them in 3D.

JB

[Atomic]

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Juice0904 wrote:

Just as a note, you can absolutely watch 3D movies on a regular HDTV, you just can't watch them in 3D.

JB

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Yes, this is correct, but I believe you need to have a 3D Blu-ray player in order to display the 2D version of the 3D disc (anyone follow that? )

I don't think 3D Blu-ray discs will play at all on a 2D Blu-ray player.

[Juice0904]

After doing a bit of research, it seems like it depends on the movie, the studio and the company producing the disc. Some will play in regular BD players, others will not. And there seems to be no way of knowing until you try playing it, in which case, you've already opened the BD and can't return it if it doesn't work.

JB

[dobyblue]

That is very annoying when studios do that, but it's pretty rare.

The MVC/MPEG-4 codec is designed to issue only the left-eye stream when being played in a 2D Blu-ray player, so when issued to spec the discs should even play in a Samsung BD-P1000.

The vast majority of the major motion picture Blu-ray releases contain a 2D Blu-ray with the 3D one.