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Sony`s Blu-ray players do 3D in 1080p even with HDMI 1.3

By February 17, 2010March 24th, 2020Newswires

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Sony`s Blu-ray players do 3D in 1080p even with HDMI 1.3
by Richard Lawler

More than a few commenters were confused to see Sony`s first 3D Blu-ray players sporting HDMI 1.3 outputs when they were announced recently. Rumors circled that we would see some sort of lower res, even "3D-Lite," experience (similar to the quality of DirecTV`s side by side compression) as a result of a lack of bandwidth in the connector. We went straight to the source to find out what buyers can expect from the BDP-S470, BDP-S570 and other hardware when they receive those MVC encoded discs later this year. Luckily, Sony`s Greg belloni has responded and informed us that will definitely not be the case:

Read the whole story here: http://hd.engadget.com/2010/02/16/sonys … -hdmi-1-3/

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