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Last reply Jul 28, 2011 · posted in General Home Theater Equipment

Directv 3D - is it HDMI 1.4a Compliant?

I am not sure if I should put this here, or on the Directv forum?

I am thinking of upgrading my home theater with a Vivitek D512 projector.
I have been talking with Vivitek about this, that projector does not need an additional converter box, it is fully 3D capable as long as the source is HDMI 1.4a compliant.

I sent in a question to Directv asking if their 3d is HDMI 1.4a compliant. I got back a B.S. answer with a sales pitch to purchase a number of different TV sets. This is not customer service, I just need an answer to a simple question:

Are the Directv receivers that are capable of receiving 3D programming HDMI 1.4a complaint?

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TheForce

Jul 7, 2011

Scott Greczkowski said:
No it's not, in fact using a 1.4 cable I was unable to get a picture, so I had to switch it back to an older HDMI cable. (This was on my HR24.)

I agree that something else must be wrong using a cable for 3D would not cause the picture to go dark. I have had one cable with a bad connector and it would have intermittent picture.

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HiDefRev

Jul 7, 2011

True, the HDMI outputs on the Directv receivers are NOT HDMI 1.4 compiant. However, I personally have never heard of a 3D TV or projector having problems with one. You should be fine. The only problems I am aware of are issues with most ( not all ) of the current 3D audio receivers ( eg. Onkyo, Pioneer, etc. ). It seems the audio receivers cannot pass the video of ESPN3D and the 3D PPV channel ( ESPN broadcasts at 720p and the 3D PPV is 1080p. The other 3D channels are broadcasting at 1080i. ). The solution is so incredibly easy that I am amazed at the people who can't figure it out. You simply run your HDMI directly from the Directv receiver into your 3D HDTV. Then you run either the optical or coaxial audio cable from the Directv receiver to your audio receiver. .:doh: That way you get the perfect 2D or 3D picture on your HDTV and still get the 5.1 audio through your audio receiver.

diogen

Jul 7, 2011

piperut said:
Are the Directv receivers that are capable of receiving 3D programming HDMI 1.4a complaint?

Since the receiver has a HDMI connector, the signal sent over it has to be compliant with the specs (otherwise D* would not get a license to use it).

That doesn't mean you'll see a nice picture: bad HDMI cable, TV's capabilities, other equipment in the audio/video chain, HDCP handshake issues, etc. - all can contribute to the final picture...

Diogen.

teachsac

Jul 7, 2011

HiDefRev said:
True, the HDMI outputs on the Directv receivers are NOT HDMI 1.4 compiant. However, I personally have never heard of a 3D TV or projector having problems with one. You should be fine. The only problems I am aware of are issues with most ( not all ) of the current 3D audio receivers ( eg. Onkyo, Pioneer, etc. ). It seems the audio receivers cannot pass the video of ESPN3D and the 3D PPV channel ( ESPN broadcasts at 720p and the 3D PPV is 1080p. The other 3D channels are broadcasting at 1080i. ). The solution is so incredibly easy that I am amazed at the people who can't figure it out. You simply run your HDMI directly from the Directv receiver into your 3D HDTV. Then you run either the optical or coaxial audio cable from the Directv receiver to your audio receiver. .:doh: That way you get the perfect 2D or 3D picture on your HDTV and still get the 5.1 audio through your audio receiver.

Not always true. Certain tv's and projector's, JVC for example, do not accept the optional formats used by D* (720p and 1080p SbS) whether running through a receiver or directly to a projector.

S~

RZ500

Jul 28, 2011

HDMI 1.4a is the system vertion of the conector (like USB2 or 3 for example) the problem with your proyector, or TV is if they are not 1.4a they wont activate the 3d function on the transmiter (Dtv, Dish, Ps3etc) and youll need an adapter like the Optoma 3d xl or the Viewsonic, but they are no 100% compatible with some proyector or Tvs and with bad luck on service, i lernd this the hard way, my optra only works with a small benq sm510 proyecto but no with my sx613st

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Wife's iPhone 15 doesn't allow her to choose LTE only for data

We were up in Pigeon Forge, TN a month ago and we couldn't get anything on our phones to work on mobile data...the Ookla speed test app couldn't even do a speed test. I have an older 13 and went into my settings and turned off the 5G, making it use LTE exclusively....did a speed test of over 300mbps so obviously the 5G bands were overwhelmed. Anyway, tried to do the same thing on my Wife's 15 and the cellular data options tab simply wasn't there. Any of you run into this? We've on Verizon

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First 2 eps out and it's unsurprisingly great to watch Paul Bettany and James Spader work.

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Watched the first episode and enjoyed it.

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Finished the 2nd episode tonight. I'm really liking it so far.

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Apparently I'm not a big enough nerd

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Anyone planning to buy the iphone 17?

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It may be the year to update my 13 to the 15.

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If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

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WhiteBeard

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EarDemon said:
If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.

To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.

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WhiteBeard said:
To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.

For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.

I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.

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I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows.

What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI? By many accounts, it has been going downhill since Windows 7.

There are Linux desktops that offer Windows or Mac UIs, yet you don't hear much chatter about them outside of questions about when the creators might get sued.

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harshness said:
What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI?

Because it's what I prefer. I know I've said this a few times, I use Open Shell to give me the cascading start menu a la WIN 95 and NT4.0. The only reason I went from Windows Vista to 7 back in the day was because of Classic Shell. I cannot stand anything other than the OG start menu from 30+ years ago. I'm using ExplorerPatcher to give me Windows 10 UI elements of the taskbar and right click context menus.

If you could take a look at how I set up Windows 95, you'd find many similarities to how I use 11.

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I could probably use that as a starting point, but I don't like the full size icons. If you have to click on each folder that's also a no-go for me, it has to be cascading.

I used to have Peppermint Linux in a VM, that was about as close as I could get to recreating a Windows NT4.0 style of menu structure, but I could never get it to scale properly in VMWare on a 4K display and eventually gave up.

Whatever the boot up time it's fine with me. The longest part of my bootup is the HP SureStart BIOS integrity check. Once that is done, it's only a few more seconds. I haven't done this reg tweak yet since the reformat, but I switched the bootup animation to the Windows 10 style spinning circle of dots, and it's two and a half rotations. I can live with that.

harshness

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EarDemon said:
Because it's what I prefer.

I hope you don't believe that makes it wonderful (especially when you're using workarounds for Microsoft's malfeasance).

I use LibreOffice as opposed to Microsoft office (even in Windows) because it's UI is like the Office of old, so I'm putting my money where my mouth is (in a manner of speaking). The ribbon was one of the worst ideas to come out Redmond.

HipKat

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EarDemon said:
I could probably use that as a starting point, but I don't like the full size icons. If you have to click on each folder that's also a no-go for me, it has to be cascading.

I used to have Peppermint Linux in a VM, that was about as close as I could get to recreating a Windows NT4.0 style of menu structure, but I could never get it to scale properly in VMWare on a 4K display and eventually gave up.

Whatever the boot up time it's fine with me. The longest part of my bootup is the HP SureStart BIOS integrity check. Once that is done, it's only a few more seconds. I haven't done this reg tweak yet since the reformat, but I switched the bootup animation to the Windows 10 style spinning circle of dots, and it's two and a half rotations. I can live with that.

I used to pin the C: drive to the Win Taskbar and it would open in cascading style

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