Although too much speculation at this time is pointless, does anyone know if any of the proposed consumer 3D methods will require a bandwidth that will make current pre/pro's (that decode audio from HDMI, and pass the HDMI along to a video display) obsolete? Or that such a data stream will be above what current HDMI systmes/cables are designed to handle?
It is a very real concern, actually. There haven't been any clear answers from manufacturers, and if problems do exist (as seems to be a possibility) there will likely be no easy way to tell if individual products are affected using manufacturer literature on older HDMI products.
Panasonic's first BD3D player will have two HDMI outputs. This is being done to allow HDMI audio to go to a receiver and HDMI video to go to a display, which is perhaps the only clear hint we've seen that manufacturers expect there to be bandwidth problems with 3D and existing HDMI receivers. Player designs like that could provide protection against compatibility problems with receivers and processors that aren't 3D-friendly, but it is sort of defeating the purpose of HDMI as a single-cable solution.
These questions come from comments I read in an on-line magazine article, but the author was not sufficiently specific or thorough.
In the author's defense, I'm not sure anyone has enough specifics. As with past HDMI revisions, details are proving elusive right now.
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