Recording 3D movies?

[Patty Winter]

A friend asked whether I could record a 3D movie from DirecTV
for him. He apparently forgot that I have neither a 3D TV nor
DirecTV. :-) But it got me wondering whether such a recording
is possible with consumer-grade equipment.

From what I've been able to determine with a little Googling,
some DVRs can record in 3D. But are there home Blu-ray recorders
that can be used to archive a 3D recording? Offhand, I couldn't
find any. I found a $2,000 JVC Blu-ray recorder, but there was
no mention of it recording 3D. Is it possible that the 3D encoding
on a TV signal is such that the encoding would be preserved on a
Blu-ray disc and show up properly when the disc is played to a
3D TV? If that were possible, I'd expect it to be mentioned in
the description of that recorder.


Patty

[Jim Wilkins]

Post by Patty Winter
A friend asked whether I could record a 3D movie from DirecTV
for him. He apparently forgot that I have neither a 3D TV nor
DirecTV. :-) But it got me wondering whether such a recording
is possible with consumer-grade equipment.
From what I've been able to determine with a little Googling,
some DVRs can record in 3D. But are there home Blu-ray recorders
that can be used to archive a 3D recording? Offhand, I couldn't
find any. I found a $2,000 JVC Blu-ray recorder, but there was
no mention of it recording 3D. Is it possible that the 3D encoding
on a TV signal is such that the encoding would be preserved on a
Blu-ray disc and show up properly when the disc is played to a
3D TV? If that were possible, I'd expect it to be mentioned in
the description of that recorder.
Patty

http://avertv.avermedia.com/AVerMediaTVSoftware/AVerMediaCenter3D_01.html
It works fine with OTA HDTV saved to the hard drive. I don't have any
way to try the 3D function, or Blu-ray.
jsw

[the dog from that film you saw]

Post by Patty Winter
A friend asked whether I could record a 3D movie from DirecTV
for him. He apparently forgot that I have neither a 3D TV nor
DirecTV. :-) But it got me wondering whether such a recording
is possible with consumer-grade equipment.
From what I've been able to determine with a little Googling,
some DVRs can record in 3D. But are there home Blu-ray recorders
that can be used to archive a 3D recording? Offhand, I couldn't
find any. I found a $2,000 JVC Blu-ray recorder, but there was
no mention of it recording 3D. Is it possible that the 3D encoding
on a TV signal is such that the encoding would be preserved on a
Blu-ray disc and show up properly when the disc is played to a
3D TV? If that were possible, I'd expect it to be mentioned in
the description of that recorder.
Patty

broadcast 3d is just side by side duplicate images in a normal tv shaped
image - no issues with recording it.

[Patty Winter]

In article <***@mid.individual.net>,
the dog from that film you saw <***@REMOVETHISbtinternet.com> wrote:

[snip]

Post by the dog from that film you saw
broadcast 3d is just side by side duplicate images in a normal tv shaped
image - no issues with recording it.

Onto what? As I said, I understand the ability to record 3D to a DVR,
but there must be an issue with making a DVD of it; surely a DVD doesn't
have enough data capacity??


Patty

[Jim Wilkins]

Post by Patty Winter
[snip]

Post by the dog from that film you saw
broadcast 3d is just side by side duplicate images in a normal tv shaped
image - no issues with recording it.

Onto what? As I said, I understand the ability to record 3D to a DVR,
but there must be an issue with making a DVD of it; surely a DVD doesn't
have enough data capacity??
Patty

My recordings of new 1080i material are around 6.5 GB / hour. A
standard DVD holds 4.7 GB, a DVD-DL about 8 GB. Old reruns on MeTV
are 1.5GB/Hour.

My recordings are for my personal use only so I don't burn them to
DVDs. I do make DVD backups of other files, and check the quality of a
small sample with Nero 6 before buying a large spindle from the same
country of origin. The graph of read speed seems to be a good test,
which many fail. Verbatim DVD-DLs from Singapore tested well.

[the dog from that film you saw]

Post by Patty Winter
[snip]

Post by the dog from that film you saw
broadcast 3d is just side by side duplicate images in a normal tv shaped
image - no issues with recording it.

Onto what? As I said, I understand the ability to record 3D to a DVR,
but there must be an issue with making a DVD of it; surely a DVD doesn't
have enough data capacity??
Patty

a dvd can - but it will be sd, but lower quality than 2d dvds as the
image is split.
it wont look pretty - but will exist.
here's an example

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