Will 3D work with non 3D receiver

Yes it will work perfectly with a older non 3D amp as the actual signal is no differant to a normal 1080i signal, leaving your TV to sort out the passive 3D signal it recieves

Thankyou DJ Krime,

 One more question though.  I have a Denon 3800BD bluray would it be something as simple as a firmware update for this to work with 3D films.

why do most reviews i have read say you need a 1.4 hdmi capable amp for 3d passthrough? is it just another marketing ploy to get people to upgrade their receivers? whats the advantage of 1.4 on an amp? 

D.J.KRIME:

Yes it will work perfectly with a older non 3D amp as the actual signal is no differant to a normal 1080i

signal, leaving your TV to sort out the passive 3D signal it recieves

micks_address:

why do most reviews i have read say you need a 1.4 hdmi capable amp for 3d passthrough? is it just another marketing ploy to get people to upgrade their receivers? whats the advantage of 1.4 on an amp? 

D.J.KRIME:

Yes it will work perfectly with a older non 3D amp as the actual signal is no differant to a normal 1080i

signal, leaving your TV to sort out the passive 3D signal it recieves

If you intend to "pass through" the signal from 3D blu-ray player then yes you need a HDMI 1.4 compliant amp but the Sky box is not sending a singnal anwhere near that sort of bandwith as from memory the Sky box is HDMI profile 1.1 so a older amp will work fine.

What about if your whatching a 3D bluray? will HDMI from bluray to non3D-receiver to 3D tv work ok?

No - again you need a receiver with 3D passthrough. The alternative is a player with two HDMI outputs, and the video run straight to the 3D TV, with audio on the 'other' HDMI to the amp.

Andrew Everard:

No - again you need a receiver with 3D passthrough. The alternative is a player with two HDMI outputs, and the video run straight to the 3D TV, with audio on the 'other' HDMI to the amp.

 I take it the lower end of the bluray players won't have two HDMI outs? what if I was to use optical out to the receiver and HDMI to the TV? or could you split the HDMI?

If you take optical out, you'll only get standard definition versions of DTS and Dolby Digital, not the HD ones. An alternative would be to buy a player with multichannel analogue outputs, if your receiver had matching mulichannel analogue ins, in which case the player would do the HD decoding and output sound in analogue to the receiver.

No, splitting the HDMI won't do the trick - rather like a home wireless network which will slow down to the speed format of the slowest item on it - ie an 802.11n network will only run at 802.11g if you put a g device in it - the HDMI output will default to the lowest common denominator. So if, for example, you split an HDMI output to feed an AV receiver and a TV, the output will only be in the best sound format the TV can handle. Same goes for picture.

AV receivers have repeaters to get around this problem.

Are you sure andrew? i have asked the question on other forums and people have responded saying that they can passthrough 3d via a HDMI 1.3 amp and get perfect 3d picture on the tv..  I am interested specifically in what the ps3 will do - I will be using that as my 3d player so i'm hoping i can route it through my Denon 1909 and get HD audio via the amp and 3d picture on the tv.. i've been told this will work by others. The ps3 (launch models at least) are not HDMI 1.4 they are 1.3 so if they are doing 3d them 1.3 must be able to at least passthrough the signal? Have you done any tests with HDMI 1.3 amps and 3d blu-ray players and 3dtvs to see the results?

Andrew Everard:

No - again you need a receiver with 3D passthrough. The alternative is a player with two HDMI outputs, and the video run straight to the 3D TV, with audio on the 'other' HDMI to the amp.

Again, that's my understanding of the situation, though I have to say I haven't actually tried it for myself. 

But then I have as much interest in 3D as I do in the results of X-Factor or the Papal Visit - well, beyond the fact that driving into the office this morning the traffic was horrendous and the pavements looked like a bizarre mix of Father Ted and March of the Penguins.

That said, there is nothing physically different between a standard HDMI socket and one capable of HDMI 1.4/high-speed output, so it's possible that the PS3 upgrade will make the change to 1.4 in software, helped by the very fast, advanced processor in the unit. But until the upgrade happens, or we get some solid information from SCE, what the PS3 will do, and how it will do whatever it will do, remains to be seen.

Ditto whether it will be able to deliver 3D through a non-3D-capable receiver, and whether that will hold true with all discs, or just some.

The situation with Sky is, of course different, as Sky won't be serving Full HD 3D at 1080p, just as its HD channels don't deliver Full HD 1080p broadcasts, but rather 1080i.

Andrew Everard:

But then I have as much interest in 3D as I do in the results of X-Factor or the Papal Visit - well, beyond the fact that driving into the office this morning the traffic was horrendous and the pavements looked like a bizarre mix of Father Ted and March of the Penguins.

 

FYI, we intend to download the PS3 Blu-ray 3D update as soon as it's available next Tuesday, and try it out with a range of kit. We'll be writing a blog on it shortly afterwards....

hammill:

On form this afternoon. That caused a loud guffaw.

Full story and pictures from our colleagues on Autocar...

I think splitter wont work with 1.3 amp and blu-rays - but might be ok for Sky 3D.

I have tried it with blu-rays Samsung BD-C6900 blu-ray into a Sammy UE46C8000 and sony str-da5400es.

so 1 output from splitter to TV and 1 output to amp, i can get the 3d if i turn the amp off before i turn on the other devices, but when i turn the amp back on it doesnt output the sound, or I can get sound but no 3D

We wait to see how Sony implements 3D blu-ray on the PS3 next week.

I'm the first to admit, I do not have the best understanding of all this technology.

I have just purchased the pioneer VSX-LX53 AV receiver following What HiFi S&V review and plan to connect it to a Sony KDL-46HX903. I have a Sony KDL-46W4710 TV connected to a Sony DA2400ES AV receiver in another room.

Am I able to connect my sky box to the pioneer VSX-LX53 to get 3D on the sony 46HX903 and use the other HDMI output to connect to the other receiver for the other TV, or will this not allow the 3D to work on the first TV? or do I need a splitter? So confused!

I resent having to pay sky another £10 a month for multi-room, or would this be my only option to get 3D to work with one room and standard HD Sky in the other?

(Like you, and most people I talk to, I also am not bothered about 3D either, but as I am in the market for a new TV, I feel resigned to get a 3D TV incase it becomes the standard, as I don't intend on replacing my TV for several years)

Hope you, someone, anyone can advise or help.