It is usually transmitted by packing both the left and right image into either a standard HD frame, or a jumbo frame that is twice the size of its 2D counterpart (for example, 3D Blu-ray is transmitted via HDMI in a 2205x1920 resolution). 3D is a bit more complicated because it is almost never transmitted the way it is viewed. The best example of this in the 2D HD world is 1080i there are lots of 1080i channels, but good luck buying a new HDTV that is 1080i. Just like other video formats, 3D is transmitted one way and usually displayed another. Now if you really want to know exactly what 3DTV Play does help with, and how well it works, well you'll just have to click on through for that part. What's interesting is that 3DTV Play doesn't really help those with the 3D Vision kits, because it is specifically for 3DTVs which require their own 3D glasses. This little piece of magic will be free for those who already own an NVIDIA 3D Vision kit, but for the rest of us with NVIDIA video cards, it'll be $40. Sure the hardware must be physically capable of transmitting the signal, but what we're really talking about here is software, not hardware. In fact what HDMI 1.4 means to 3D is simply that a device is capable of outputting specific 3D formats (all common 3D formats used less bandwidth than 1080p60 2D).
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Some think this is as simple as getting a video card with an HDMI 1.4 port, but in regards to 3D it is just a spec and your existing video card you've had for years might just work.
NVIDIA 3D TV PLAY PC
Now NVIDIA has been bringing 3D to PCs for years but the latest 3DTVs don't share as much in common with 3D PC displays as you might think. And so of course the latest HTPCs need to be able to play 3D movies, games and broadcast content. Home theater PC fans will tell you that one of the reasons they do what they do is because of the flexibility that comes along with a roll your own home theater PC.