disolitude said:
Barozi said:
People are surprised that the 360 can do 3D ?
I thought this was common knowledge.
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Pentium 2 and fat old CRT monitors could to 3d gaming on the PC. No reason to think 360 couldn't do it...
http://active-hardware.com/english/reviews/video/3drevealator.htm
Check out specs below. Quake 2 in 3D was the shizzle back then... :)
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Not that it matters or anybody cares, but there is a difference between 3d on the PS3 and 3d on the 360. At least theoretically but maybe not in practice.
The difference has to do with the bandwidth available on the HDMI ports. Because the 360 has a 1.2 HDMI port to do 3d it must send the signal in Half 720P side by side mode. Doing it this way you lose half the potential resolution by going 3d. This is also the way the PS3 did 3d before the update. I imagine those games would still operate the same as before.
The PS3's 1.3 HDMI port has the same bandwidth as a 1.4 port. This is why they were able to put out an update to conform with the new HDMI 1.4 3d standards. The PS3 supports two of them, full 1080p/24 3d, and full 720p/60 3d. The 1080p/24 3d mode is only for blu ray movie playback. There will be no loss in resolution with 3d movie playback. The 720p/60 3d mode is for games. This will be limited to what the developers can get the PS3 to render at an acceptable framerate, up to a maximum of 720p with no loss in resolution due to putting out 3d images.
So in short the PS3 is potentially capable of doing higher resolution 3d then the 360, if the developers can get the game to render in 3d above half 720p resolution and still have a decent framerate. If they can't then it doesn't matter