{"id":2274,"date":"2014-03-20T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T15:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hdforumitalia.lan\/2014\/03\/20\/3dtv-can-you-also-watch-programs-which-are-not-3d\/"},"modified":"2021-10-19T09:28:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T07:28:14","slug":"3dtv-can-you-also-watch-programs-which-are-not-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.hdforumitalia.it\/it\/3dtv-can-you-also-watch-programs-which-are-not-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"If you buy a 3D TV, can you also watch TV programs (and also DVD or Blue Ray content) that are not in 3D format?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure! A 3D TV is also capable of displaying 2D programs, i.e. SD and DVD (which are in 576p format, in Europe), as well as HD and BluRay (which are in 1080i25 or 1080p50 mode). This is precisely why a 3D TV generally has a button for switching from 3D mode to 2D mode. Naturally, an HD-only TV is not capable of displaying 3D programs. Depending on the technological choices related to the representation of a 3D signal, an HD-only TV that receives a 3D signal may display the left-eye and right-eye related images side by side (side-by-side) or one below the other (top-bottom) or fragmented and arranged in a suitable tile pattern (tiled) or may display nothing. The same would happen with a 3D TV that you have mistakenly set to 2D mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure! A 3D TV is also capable of displaying 2D programs, i.e. SD and DVD (which are in 576p format, in Europe), as well as HD and BluRay (which are in 1080i25 or 1080p50 mode). This is precisely why a 3D TV generally has a button for switching from 3D mode to 2D mode. Naturally,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq-eng","category-12","description-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>If you buy a 3D TV, can you also watch TV programs (and also DVD or Blue Ray content) that are not in 3D format? - HD Forum Italia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.hdforumitalia.it\/it\/3dtv-can-you-also-watch-programs-which-are-not-3d\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"If you buy a 3D TV, can you also watch TV programs (and also DVD or Blue Ray content) that are not in 3D format? - HD Forum Italia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sure! 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