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Acer G245 monitor and NVIDIA’s 3D Blu-ray playback

Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by "Mitch" in Blu-ray, Gaming, Monitors

Engadget has a story up on a preview of NVIDIA’s 3D Blu-ray “ecosystem”.   And from their brief report, everything seems to be falling into place. They go on to demo 3D playback on the upcoming Acer G245 120hz LCD display that can be synced with nVidia’s shutter based glasses.

3D Blu-ray is encoded in a new MVC-AVC format, which passes through a regular 1080p video for incompatible hardware, but provides a 3D image for the software and decode hardware capable of sussing it out. Right now NVIDIA’s 3D Blu-ray capable on existing GeForce GT 220 and GT 240 GPUs, along with its upcoming Fermi cards due next year.

UPDATE: Amazon.com appears for have an Acer G245 monitor listed for sale, but it doesn’t mention the refresh rate, so we don’t think it is the actual 3D monitor discussed above.

Tags: Acer, G245, Nvidia