3D TV formats

In essence, these are not really different 3D TV formats in that the final presentation is just the same field sequential - with full size images despite of a lower resolution - being displayed for the left and right eye in a sequential order. Rather, this can be thought of in terms of a different resolution of the same 3D TV format, in a somewhat similar manner to the difference between 720p and 1080p HDTV.

This diagram - credit Cineramax Next Gen 4-D Cinema Systems - depicts how these different 3D TV formats store the left and right images; these are then processed so that irrespective of the way the information is stored in the 3D content, the final presentation would be a full size image for the left eye and a full size image for the right eye.