interesting read...
3D Blu-ray Player Commonly Asked Questions
Quote from the above FAQ:
1. "Two important features will make Blu-ray players able to play 3D movies.
HDMI 1.4 is the latest cabling standard that supports a high bit rate necessary to send the extra data the TV needs to display two different images to each eye for the 3D effect."
2. Concerning PS3: "Partly due to the built-in graphics processing power, a firmware upgrade (due this summer) may be all you need to upgrade your PS3 to 3D. Unfortunately you won't be able to upgrade the HDMI port to 1.4 so that may become an issue."
3. Concerning AVR: "Unfortunately your old receiver won't support 3D at least full 1080p 3D that will require an HDMI 1.4 port. If you try and send an HDMI 1.4 signal through an HDMI 1.3 port, the 3D information will be stripped off before it gets passed on to the TV"
From a separate HDTV authority that reported:
1. HDMI versions 1.3 and 1.4 have sufficient bandwidth (10.2 Gbps) to transport dual 3D images with full 1080p resolution even at 60 fps frame rate.
2. Firmware upgrades could be applied to earlier HDMI versions to implement 3D protocols. The firmware upgrade could be applied to version 1.3 hardware, which already has more than the bandwidth capacity needed to transport uncompressed 3D at full resolution for each eye (3D Blu-ray).
3. In theory, the full 10.2 Gbps of bandwidth of the HDMI specification for versions 1.3 or 1.4 is not actually required to implement 3D, not even the 3D Blu-ray full 1080p dual frames, because most of its content would be 2X1080p24 (film base) or 2X1080i60 (video source) for which the 4.95 Gbps bandwidth of v1.0 would be sufficient.
There are still many questions & confusions. The worst case scenario is the requirement of HDMI 1.4 in all hardware aspects i.e. BD player, AV receiver & HDTV. These will cost an arm, leg & kidney eh. :'(