Looking for a new Blu-Ray player

[drfsupercenter]

I know what you mean about TVs, I've done a few recordings from my Apple TV and they were always 59.94fps. Took a bit of work to get workable 720p encodes out of it.

But I was under the impression that the player itself is doing that conversion on the fly, and that the content is stored as 24fps. I know DVDs can be either, either 29.97fps and interlaced (480i) or ~24fps and progressive (480p). Most Blu-Rays I've seen were 24fps 1080p, unless I'm mistaken.

As far as the coating, that's interesting. I notice when I've seen 3D movies in the cinemas, they just have two projectors, one on top of the other, which makes the "blurry" looking picture that the glasses then un-blur.

I've always wondered what would happen if you filmed a movie from a 3D cinema using a camcorder, then played that back with the 3D glasses on. Obviously I haven't tried it due to the risk of being thrown out of the theater or worse.

[admin]

I know what you mean about TVs, I've done a few recordings from my Apple TV and they were always 59.94fps. Took a bit of work to get workable 720p encodes out of it.

But I was under the impression that the player itself is doing that conversion on the fly, and that the content is stored as 24fps. I know DVDs can be either, either 29.97fps and interlaced (480i) or ~24fps and progressive (480p). Most Blu-Rays I've seen were 24fps 1080p, unless I'm mistaken.

Yes, the player does the "conversion" or chooses to output at 60Hz or 24p depending on player settings. When the player is set to 24p, the TV does the conversion to 60Hz or if "cinema mode" is available/activated, to 48/72/96/120Hz. With frame interpolation, the TV creates new frames by comparing to consecutive frames to get it up to 100/120/240Hz.

I've always wondered what would happen if you filmed a movie from a 3D cinema using a camcorder, then played that back with the 3D glasses on. Obviously I haven't tried it due to the risk of being thrown out of the theater or worse.

DON'T TRY IT! You'll end up in prison

[drfsupercenter]

LOL yeah that's why I haven't. But I'm just curious, theoretically, what would happen.

[admin]

It wouldn't really work anyway, it's not how the passive 3D works:

Polarized 3D system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here's another kind of passive 3D developed by Dolby that doesn't use polarization techniques, but it too wouldn't work I don't think via taping:

Dolby 3D - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[drfsupercenter]

So it would basically look like a blurry mess?

[admin]

It would look like what it would look like if you didn't wear the glasses, except even if you watch the recorded footage with the glasses afterwards, it wouldn't look 3D.

[drfsupercenter]

Ah, OK.

So basically, other than using the two-color (red/cyan, purple/yellow, whatever strange combos exist), there's no way to view 3D content on a regular 60Hz TV?

[admin]

The two-color ones are the only way that I know that will work on TVs not specifically said to be 3D capable.

[drfsupercenter]

Oh, another thing I just thought of... I know the PS3 will not upscale non-HD content on Blu-Rays which always irked me as my TV takes a few seconds to adjust resolutions.

Do the Panasonic players upscale SD content on Blu-Rays? And do they maintain proper aspect ratio? (I know 480p content can be either 4:3 or 16:9 and my TV can't tell the difference.)