I recently purchased a passive 3D display, the LG 55LW5600. The major shortcoming of passive 3D displays is that each eye only sees half of the vertical resolution. So if you were watching full frame packed 1920x1080 3D content, each eye would effectively see 1920x540.
One common 3D format is side-by-side, where each frame contents the image for each eye in a side-by-side fashion. Each image is 960x1080, with the entire frame being 1920x1080. The problem with this format on passive 3D displays is that side-by-side format has already reduced the horizontal resolution in half only to be reduced vertically by the passive display. So each eye only sees 960x540!
The top-bottom 3D format on the other hand stacks the two eye images in a 1920x1080 frame, with each image being 1920x540. This has the advantage of at least not being further reduced by the passive 3D display.
So I sort of have two questions related to this. One, with the advent of passive 3D displays (and I imagine it'll only become more and more popular as they improve on the technology) it'd be nice to see 3D content providers adopt the top-bottom over side-by-side as it benefits more of its customers. Is there any word of such a thing?
Also, does anyone have any top-bottom examples (ideally with the same example in a side-by-side format for comparison)? It does seem most content out there is currently in the side-by-side format.
One common 3D format is side-by-side, where each frame contents the image for each eye in a side-by-side fashion. Each image is 960x1080, with the entire frame being 1920x1080. The problem with this format on passive 3D displays is that side-by-side format has already reduced the horizontal resolution in half only to be reduced vertically by the passive display. So each eye only sees 960x540!
The top-bottom 3D format on the other hand stacks the two eye images in a 1920x1080 frame, with each image being 1920x540. This has the advantage of at least not being further reduced by the passive 3D display.
So I sort of have two questions related to this. One, with the advent of passive 3D displays (and I imagine it'll only become more and more popular as they improve on the technology) it'd be nice to see 3D content providers adopt the top-bottom over side-by-side as it benefits more of its customers. Is there any word of such a thing?
Also, does anyone have any top-bottom examples (ideally with the same example in a side-by-side format for comparison)? It does seem most content out there is currently in the side-by-side format.