The Realtek RTD 1186 media processor is currently the most popular solution for use in standalone media players with support for playback of 3D videos. It is nice and affordable solution with HDMI v1.4 supporting 3D output and MVC decoding and Blu-ray 3D ISO support, so it is no wonder that there are so many devices out there that are using this chipset. Before the users started demanding that the standalone multimedia players also support 3D video playback there was another company that was very popular and widely used and that was Sigma Designs.
However the’ve had their share of issues with bringing 3D video support into their media processors range, they have announced the SMP8910 with 3D video including Blu-ray 3D support, but it was not welcomed by the manufacturers who decided not to adopt it. And it took quite some time before a media player manufacturer finally decided to use a variation of this chip, namely the SMP8911 found in the Popcorn Hour A-400 media player. The SMP8910/SMP8911 media processor is looking very promising specification wise, but apparently it is not problem free and not that easy to implement as the Realtek alternative, so no wonder there is still no other player based on that chip.
Special credits to our source, 3DVision Blog.
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