Yesterday I was in a debate with a fellow over when we would have 3-D Blu-Ray available at work to watch movies on. I reminded him that there is only one movie currently available for 3-D Blu-Ray. Without any content, there is nothing to watch. That did not satisfy him at all. Randall told him that there were some hardware problems that we were working through since this was a new equipment. That did not seem to satisfy him either.

But what if you want to run a non 3D movie on the latest 120 Mhz monitor? Tom Petersen talks about that issue in a recent blog post.

Ok, so you’ve got yourself a new 3D-capable 120Hz monitor for playing back games and videos in stereo 3D mode, but then you also decide to take advantage of that higher refresh rate even when playing back non 3D videos like Blu-ray Movies. You set your display to 120Hz and try to run the Bly-ray movie and then something is not right and the reason for that is the HDCP protection that is being used with the Blu-ray video. But why it is not working when your new 120Hz monitor does say HDCP compliant? There is one interesting catch that nobody is focusing on and that is the fact that your new 120Hz monitor is indeed HDCP compliant, but only when used at 60Hz refresh rate.

via : Playing Blu-ray Movies (non-3D) on a 120Hz 3D-ready LCD Monitor