[Stephen Buczinski]

My Fuji W3 generates an HDMI 3D output that is clearly not a side-by-side image for stills or video that both a Panasonic 3D and Samsung 3D tv recognizes and automatically starts playing in 3D. Even the static *.mpo image files and *.avi video files from this camera, which do not show up in any normal jpeg player as side by side images, play in 3D on the same tvs. The second stereo image of each pair in any frame is never available unless the Fuji software is used to extract it. I called Fuji and they said they used MVC encoding after some consultation amoung their staff. I am wondering if anyone else out there can confirm this by signal analysis as it took them a while to cinfirm this and since the Fuji software can convert home made stereo images into Fuji video or stills, i.e., by MVC encoding I can only assume. Roxio’s software does not do this, but rather creates a conspicuously side-by-side image format when you select their Fuji format output. When you select their side-by-side full output, not half, the image looks the same. I’m still trying to get an engineer’s confirmation on this from Fuji or anyone else out there who has the equipment.