3d video reproduction matching the output format to the 3d processing ability of a display

A playback device for playback of three dimensional video information, the device comprising:

• input means for receiving the three dimensional video information from a record medium or via a data transmission system;
• outputting means for transmitting the video information over an interface to a displaying device, the displaying device and the interface such that the properties of the displaying device can be queried over the interface,
• means for determining an input video format in which a compressed three dimensional video information is available to the input;
• means for querying the displaying device over the interface with respect to one or more three dimensional video formats which the displaying device is able to process;
• means for selecting a matching video format based on the available video format and the video formats which the displaying device is able to process;
• video processing means for processing the compressed three dimensional video information such that the three dimensional video information is transmitted over the interface in the matching video format, wherein the means for selecting are arranged for, when the matching video format is stereo and different from the input video format, reading a maximum horizontal and vertical frequency reachable by the displaying device, and if the maximum horizontal and vertical frequency are high enough to accommodate resolution and frame rate of the three dimensional video information, selecting a time-sequential video format as the matching video format.