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there are clearly bad batches of the 820 out in the wild but I have one and my parents have one and they have been going strong for 4-5 years.

But before you buy another player, what tv model dl you have?

I have a Sony Bravia 8. I went ahead and ordered an 820. The sub luminosity is a real issue. I watch too many movies with subtitles, so I need to be able to dim them. It's just too bad the 450 that I have doesn't have this feature (but the 420 does--though no DV).

I got DV to work. I had to select the regular "enhanced input" for HDMI, not the advanced enhanced. Go figure. And how I was supposed to know this? It's stated nowhere in the manual! Anyway, it works from the player, but not over the network. Not sure how to get that to work.

ah yep, Sony TV HDMI settings are bafflingly more complicated than they should be

Now I've got the age-old color uniformity issue with b&w movies. Greenish on the left side of screen; reddish on the right. How to adjust this?

is the tv on Professional or Cinema mode? If so, short of having it calibrated, I am not sure what the answer is

Switched to Cinema Mode, which is a little better. Thankfully, most b&w white films are academy ratio, so the edges aren't visible.

denti alligator wrote:Now I've got the age-old color uniformity issue with b&w movies. Greenish on the left side of screen; reddish on the right. How to adjust this?

Only remedy for this is to go with a QD-OLED. TVs with WOLED panels like those in the Bravia 8 and LG models will show tinting along the edges of the screen or when viewed off axis. It minor enough in color content to be unnoticeable but can be very apparent when viewing B&W movies.


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Am I correct in thinking there's no way currently to get a 4K OLED TV that will also play content in 3D? I know the technology exists but just isn't popular. Are there no niche retailers that could custom-make such a TV for me?

Are there any 4K TVs of any kind that can handle 3D? I’m under the impression that you have to go down the projector route for that.

Here was one, but it's 10 years old. Like I said, the technology exists. In fact, that article mentions that 4K resolution is actually ideal for displaying 1080p content for each eye in 3D

I have kept my E6 for this reason, and the passive 3D is indeed phenomenal, far superior to the active 3D sets I'd had previously. It's certainly no good now though as a primary 4K HDR TV, only a 3D backup.

I watch 3D via my Oculus Quest (or whatever it's called now), which has the major advantage of genuinely delivering a discrete image to each eye at the same level of brightness as any other video source.

Is that just a headset and can it connect to a 3D Blu-ray player?

Yes, the Quest is a standalone (unconnected, runs on its own hardware) VR headset.

As far as I know they do not connect to any 3D blu-ray players. The way to view 3D movies on them is either through an app with built in streaming and 3D support off an existing platform (like YouTube), or you can also view individual 3D video files. These files are either transferred via USB and stored internally on the headset's memory (limited space available), or you can use various DIY hosting/streaming solutions like Plex, Emby, etc.

Although I own Godard's Adieu au langage in a couple physical formats, I also have a file that I use to stream from my Mac to my Oculus Quest via Emby when I want to watch Adieu in 3D. And it looks better than my old 3D Sony TV did playing the disc and wearing the glasses. Much more immersive in a headset. It seems like this is probably going to be the way forward for viewing 3D content at home.

FWIW, Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams was just re-released in a new 3D 6K master (mostly for IMAX screenings), so I imagine they will continue to develop 3D projection for higher resolutions beyond 2K and even 4K. Granted the restoration was upscaled from raw footage that was still 2K, so not the best example of seeing how that would look.

I know how to convert a 3D Blu-ray to a SBS file, but I'd much rather just be able to play from a player for convenience. This seems to be an example of a headset that can connect to a player through HDMI, although it's only 720p. Does something like this but in 1080p exist?

swo17 wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2026 9:13 pmDoes something like this but in 1080p exist?

To answer my own question, this may do the trick (or here's a fancier 1440p model). Anyone familiar with Goovis?

I rip the discs to SBS MKVs and serve them up from a hard drive via wi-fi (the Oculus has a player app that can do this), so my entire 3D library is always instantly accessible.

(Although admittedly you need a hefty hard drive, and they’re not as cheap as they used to be!)

Odd question all these years later:

If anyone has the Austin powers in Goldmember blu ray:

When doing the focus points bonus feature, for the point at the start of chapter 3: When I click on it I get a message that says something about how the disc is locked for being a different region, the whole disc freezes and I have to eject it to get it working again. Tried it on 3 different players.

Also, for the focus point at the start of the end credits, nothing pops up. It just blinks black for a second and then goes back to the end credits.

Anyone else able to duplicate these errors?

In the Second Sight thread I mentioned seeing jaggies in their release of Heimat. I think I've figured out what the issue is. My projector says it's outputting 59.94hz. But my player is set to output 25fps. On my new TV there are no jaggies, so obviously the TV is receiving and processing the signal properly. I don't understand why this is happening on the projector, which is perfectly capable of playing 50hz material. Any ideas.

denti alligator wrote: Thu Jun 11, 2026 1:15 pm In the Second Sight thread I mentioned seeing jaggies in their release of Heimat. I think I've figured out what the issue is. My projector says it's outputting 59.94hz. But my player is set to output 25fps. On my new TV there are no jaggies, so obviously the TV is receiving and processing the signal properly. I don't understand why this is happening on the projector, which is perfectly capable of playing 50hz material. Any ideas.

I'm sure you must have tried, but can you manually cycle refresh rate on your projector? Jaggies are definitely a side-effect I've seen from conversion, so you're on the right track.

There doesn’t seem to be a feature for changing the refresh rate on the projector, but I was able to mess with the player settings and I got it to work! The settings are by no means intuitive. Trial and error. But it works!

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