So far all 3D movies that have been released on home video are Anaglyph 3D. This means that they have a picture with different colors (mostly red and green/blue) which will be perceived as 3D when wearing special glasses (with red and green/blue lenses). These movies will appear exactly the same on your computer monitor as they do on your TV. And the 3D effect will be just as crappy. The current crop of 3D movies in the theatre are "polarized" 3D. These have an analog picture that is projected through a special lens that sends two separate images to the screen. When wearing polarized lenses, each eye will see a different picture and create the 3D effect. As the lenses are not colored this looks better than the old anaglyph process. However home TVs and monitors cannot show a polarized image so home video releases of the current 3D movies have all been converted to anaglyph 3D. This can be awesome when used with animated titles or awful when used with concert footage. There is also an LCD shutter form of 3D, mostly in the form of cheap Chinese glasses that actually hook up by wire to old analog TVs and come bundled with older 3D movies (It Came From Outer Space, House of Wax, etc). With some tweaking you can get this to work on older CRT monitors, but there is very little content available for this format and it will not work on LCD monitors. James Cameron (T2, Titanic) and others are working on a new form of the LCD shutter type that should prove to be the best yet when used in the theatre with digital projection. Several companies are working on compatible systems for home use and computer use. They are now available, expensive and have not got much content available, but this should improve as the technology matures. Check out... http://www.evga.com/articles/00452/ Hope this helps.