Overview of 3D HDMI with DigitalMedia

HDMI 1.4 announced support for 3D video transmission, which would make customers believe that previous versions of HDMI (i.e. 1.3) cannot support it. However there are almost no HDMI 1.4 televisions on the market and the content providers want to be able to make money on 3D as soon as possible (ESPN says they are going to have a 3D channel this summer, and DirecTV is pitching it hard). These content providers worked with the consumer electronics companies and built a way to do 3D on HDMI 1.3 devices. All that is required to support these 3D formats is a firmware upgrade – so DM will have new firmware to support 3D when these HDMI 1.3 3D devices are released.