3D Movie Titles on Apple TV?

[6GenNANO]

I am just wondering if Apple TV supports 3D movies, if so where are they? If not, are there any plans to add 3D titles to iTunes & Netflix? Or will this be reserved for Apple TV 4?

 

[waw74]

not there at all

netflix does offer 3D, but only on a very limited number of titles, and it only works on a very small number of devices.

 

[priitv8]

If you are willing to source your movies from other places rather than iTunes Store, the only working solution is to watch Over-Under or Side-By-Side (OU or SBS) encoded 3D movies. They are technically just 2D movies and utilise the 3D TV-set's capability to decode and present them in 3D. You obviously lose half of the resolution in one direction.
There is no support for real (native) FullHD-3D formats in the whole Apple ecosystem.

 

[rjmurry]

If you are willing to source your movies from other places rather than iTunes Store, the only working solution is to watch Over-Under or Side-By-Side (OU or SBS) encoded 3D movies. They are technically just 2D movies and utilise the 3D TV-set's capability to decode and present them in 3D. You obviously lose half of the resolution in one direction.
There is no support for real (native) FullHD-3D formats in the whole Apple ecosystem.

If Apple were to introduce a 4k Apple TV product, in theory, would we be able to watch a full 1080p 3D movie if it was self sourced? (Assuming they were encoded at full resolution)

 

[priitv8]

If Apple were to introduce a 4k Apple TV product, in theory, would we be able to watch a full 1080p 3D movie if it was self sourced? (Assuming they were encoded at full resolution)

You need to understand the difference between a full-flavor 3D signal out of HDMI port (any 3D BluRay player or camera will do this) and the "3D workaround" whereby both eyes' frames are crammed onto a single 2D-movie frame (the OU and SBS represent one solution to this), be it 720p, 1080p or 4K.
The workaround is in essence possible, because the total bitrate does not increase compared to 2D picture. For FullHD-3D, the total bitrate is doubled, obviously, because now 2 FullHD pictures need to be transmitted over HDMI in the same timeframe (24 times a second).
So basically, as long as Apple keeps 3D HDMI output away from it's devices, we need to stick to workarounds.
A 4K movie frame will allow both L and R full 1080p frames be "packed" inside single movie frame, so the answer to your original question is YES.