Technology patents are a funny thing and it can be difficult to understand that RealD owns the rights to encode 3D in the frame compatible side by side format as displayed above — without license or consent — but patents are a reality of the world and so Syabas has licensed RealD’s 3D format for the upcoming PopBox which will support the 3D format at launch. No word on if the PopBox will support Blu-ray’s Full HD 3D which is actually double the resolution of HD instead of trying to squeeze both perspectives into the same HD frame. At this point it doesn’t appear that the PopBox will be HDMI 1.4a compliant so while it’ll send the 3D signal to your 3DTV, you’ll have to be the one to tell the TV it is receiving 3D in order to ensure the 3rd dimension is displayed. Full release after the jump.
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