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the WD boxes are very cute, i did look at them, but couldnt justify the retail prices

i've got two 12-bay Synology units, and an 8-bay drobo

so i did some half-assed googling, and it looks like it might be possible to order TVs to change into SBS/HTAB mode over HDMI, if im reading this correctly? http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=163475 so i guess you "just" need to find a player which can read the flag from the MKV and ...

i'd have been inclined to keep them as separate files , so that way they can either be identified by filename or file type or storage location, so send MVC to MVC capable players and HSBS/HTAB to players/TVs better suited to those. but i guess aside from keeping track of it all, you'd end up duplica...

actually that makes it MUCH clearer, and im aware that MKV is just a container but MVC IS a codec but you kept on saying you wanted your MVC video to flag whether it was HSBS of HTAB, which is nonsense, because its neither, its MVC... the bit i wasnt clear about was that you wanted BOTH an MVC AND A...

nothing has changed

powerdvd support insisted that it could, and told me to download the trial

so i did

then they said it that was restricted to the full software, and wasnt included in the trail version

so i bought it

and it still didnt

so they had to refund me

subtitles are not part of the frames, they are stored separate, basically as text...

how your player displays them is up to it

I originally really wanted to know if MakeMKV is capable of encoding a MVC MKV with "something" in the metadata/etc that would tell my TV what mode (TAB/SBS) the content was encoded with. This is because I'm creating the content myself and my software (After Effects / Premiere / 3ds Max) ...

OK, lets try this another way You said you wanted the TV to give you the choice between HSBS and HTAB The TV is being supplied with two full 1080p images from the MVC source, via frame packed HDMI The TV screen is two lots of 540p lines, one for each eye, interlaced, and that cannot be changed (beca...

I've got a Masters Degree in Imaging and a PhD in experiential X-Ray Physics, FYI, I can do mathematics :P yes, i entirely get what you are saying about HSBS and HTAB on a passive display but that is not what you are taking about you are talking about when the TV is sent FULL FRAMES from MVC, HSBS a...

there is no reason a TV cannot take 2 full frames and composite HTAB or HSBS from them. the TV isn't compositing either of those from anything, its either displaying active or passive 3D. i think your insistence on misusing the terms HSBS and HTAB is not helping. unless your tv is actually displayi...

From a CNEt article entitled active-3d-vs-passive-3d-whats-better LG claims they show all the resolution in the 1080p signal to each eye temporally. As in, the TV shows the odd lines of resolution on the odd lines of the TV, then flash the even lines of resolution on the odd lines of the TV (and the...

HTAB is BETTER THAN HSBS. It has more resolution. they both contain exactly 2,073,600 pixels? There may only be 540 lines but you're using those 540 vertical lines twice as much with different data, for the same frame. so you want to show the odd lines of the picture on the odd lines of the tv, the...

i totally agree, thats why they are passive, because its a large , cheap, fixed polarising screen, plastered over the front of a bog standard tv, halving the available resolution to each eye

and no insanely high refresh rate will ever change that

So reading what he wrote about "alternating" eyes...

his solution to getting passive TVs to display full res.. is to make them active???

thats hysterical

and you dont even need to maintain 60fps! with passive you could easily drop lower and its still fine!