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disolitude on 25 July 2010
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Ssenkahdavic said:
 


Almost makes you wonder if they did this on purpose (limiting 3D gaming to 720p, as that is as high as 1.2 can support)..... it cannot be that simple can it?  

Sony has almost NOTHING to do with HDMI 1.4a specs (they are part of the council but not enough to control it by any means).  Since the PS3 has the bandwidth to do  2 x 1080@60 at 32bit, but NOT the processing power (lets be honest here, no way in hell it is doing a real game at this level with 32bit color), you think it is possible they did this on purpose?  Why go higher when you A) cannot handle it, and B) more adopters because of the 1.2spec on the 360.

CONSPIRACY! hehe

and here ya go :)

1360 x 768 x 2 x 60 x 32bit color = 4,010,803,200 (barely over 1.2 HDMI bandwidth) tho it would obviously work at any color depth below 32bit.

Hehe, I did the math after you posted the equation. Slightly over HDMI 1.2

But yeah, to be honest I don't think its a consipracy from a gaming perspective. I'm quite active on all 3D boards and forums out there and the sources indicate that the issue was the TV manufacturers.

While HDMI 1.4 supports 1080p gaming in 3D (its listed as one of the "sub-formats" but not included as the main format on the HDMI 1.4 spec document) I don't think the TV manufacturers have the technology needed to provide a pannel which can do 1080p @ 60 hz. They figured 3D will be expensive already and didn't want to add a 1000s of dollars more to the units. The 1080p 3D LCD pannel may not cost $1000 more to produce but it does to mass produce.

They already have these 2-3 ms response time pannels ready and are pretty much selling us the same tech they've been doing since 120hz systems were available.

As far as plasmas, Samsung had 3D plasmas available in 2008. I have one in my bedroom... they had slight issues where thosporous would leave a greenish tint...and these new ones use phosporous which is faster to fade on screen. Other than that and the HDMI 1.4 plug...the Samsung plasma TVs are not much different this year.