The UK Blu-ray 3D version of "Hugo" displays flickering corruption on my screen when played in 3D (but not in 2D) on my PC. You can see it in this photo of the screen (click here - 3D on the top, 2D on the bottom) and here is a short video:



I was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to what might be causing this. I have two other Blu-ray 3D discs (Coraline and Sanctum 3D) and both play flawlessly. I have updated my video drivers to the latest version (I'm using a Radeon HD 6770) and the issue persists.

I downloaded the trial of ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre 5 to see if it was a software issue and that exhibited exactly the same problem. If I disable hardware acceleration in TMT 5 I don't notice the corruption, but as it plays back incredibly jerkily I could be missing the corrupted frames (on a side note, Coraline plays back a bit more smoothly without hardware acceleration than Hugo).

I thought it might be a disc issue so exchanged the disc for a different copy. This did not help.

My monitor (LG DM2780D) has a row-interleaved micro-polariser and supports native HDMI 1.4 3D. Switching between these modes does not help the issue, so I don't think the corruption is coming from the monitor either.

Could the Blu-ray drive cause such issues? I'm using a fairly old one (Sony BDU-X10S) which is a 2x drive and I would have expected this to be sufficient for Blu-ray 3D playback. I'd expect dropped frames or otherwise jerky playback if the drive was too slow, however, not smooth but corrupted video.

I'd greatly appreciate hearing any suggestions!

Edit: I can further report that it's only the right eye view that is affected. If I close my left eye I can see the corruption, but if I close my right eye (or switch to 2D output whilst playing the 3D version of the film, which presumably just displays the left eye's view) the video appears correctly.