3D blue ray converted to non-HD thru RCA cable

[sifan]

Hi,

I am interested in an Asian edition of an American movie only available in 3D Blue Ray format overseas (http://www.yesasia.com/global/how-to-tra...-0-en/info.html); but, I only have a non-HD TV (old TV) without a Blue Ray player.

Question #0: Can a 2D Blue Ray player play a 3D Blue Ray disc and display the image on a non-3D TV?

Question #1: Is it possible to play 3D Blue Ray through an all region 2D/3D Blue Ray player while viewing the image on my old TV by a RCA cable (assuming the Blue Ray player provides the RCA cable connection)? Will the image be distorted or scrambled?

Question #2: Assuming the image from above question is perfect, what kind of converter is needed if this particular Blue Ray player that I am interested does not provide the RCA cable connection?

Thanks,

Simon

 

[Darren270]

A 2D blu-ray player will not play a 3D blu ray.

No, you also need a 3D tv. It wont play. Most players will give you an on screening prompt telling you that you do not have a 3D tv so it will not play.

Blu-ray players provide only an HDMI output. There is a cable that you can use to plug the HDMI cable into RCA jacks but I'm not sure what it is called exactly. Shouldnt be too difficult to find though.

 

[The_Jeff]

Check your computer monitors for HDMI in. Might be pleasantly surprised.

 

[earlyre]

Originally Posted By: Darren270

Blu-ray players provide only an HDMI output.


WRONG - maybe YOUR blu-ray player is setup like that, however mine (an OLD LG - one of the first netflix ready devices that wasn't a Roku)has:
HDMI,
Component(Red,green,blue rca style outputs for video)
and the good old fashioned Yellow rca video out.
as well as the red & white 2 channel rca audio,
the orange rca digial coaxial audio,
and optical audio out.

they SHOULD all have at least the component out in addition to HDMI.

this is what comes up when i load the 3D disc for tron Legacy in my 2D Blu-ray,hooked to my 2D Televison (cell phone camera, best of the 3 shots it took.)

Amazon Search - keywords: HDMI to Composite cable

 

[RiceCake]

Technically, it should be easy to play only one set of the 3D frames, giving you a 2D movie, and of course, downsampling it out to your TV through whatever connection the Blu-Ray player offers.

Realistically though like earlyre says, it'll complain. Its "impossible" to do and you "need" to buy a new TV to get the "full experience".

 

[Darren270]

Originally Posted By: earlyre


WRONG - maybe YOUR blu-ray player is setup like that, however mine (an OLD LG - one of the first netflix ready devices that wasn't a Roku)has:
HDMI,
Component(Red,green,blue rca style outputs for video)
and the good old fashioned Yellow rca video out.
as well as the red & white 2 channel rca audio,
the orange rca digial coaxial audio,
and optical audio out.

they SHOULD all have at least the component out in addition to HDMI.




So dramatic! Calm down. So I was mistaken. A simple "Actually they do make blu-ray players with component outputs" would have sufficed.

 

[earlyre]

Originally Posted By: Darren270

So dramatic! Calm down. So I was mistaken. A simple "Actually they do make blu-ray players with component outputs" would have sufficed.


yeah... i'm trying to work on it... I should start all responses with the disclaimer: "Hi, I'm an [censored]. I know I'm an [censored], I come from a long line of [censored], My Father is an [censored], as was his father before him, and so on, and so on.
So if my responses come off [censored]-ish, don't take it personally. "

like so many things in my life, it's a work in progress, but my knee-jerk reaction tends to be straight-up [censored].