Panasonic announced its 3D Full HD Plasma Home Theater System, dubbed “3D FHD,” at CES 2009. The set up features a 103″ plasma HDTV paired with Panasonic’s Blu-ray player. Panasonic says it can push the 3D FHD to new limits because it sends 2 HD signals from the Blu-ray player to the plasma TV, which results in a 1080p signal for each of your eyes.
While Panasonic says that it’s the first to make this happen, this may just be a sign of things to come if it’s really that great of an experience.
Check out the full details the press release below.
PANASONIC’S WORLD’S FIRST 3D FULL HD PLASMA HOME THEATER SYSTEM* MAKES U.S. DEBUT AT CES 2009
Panasonic’s 103-inch Plasma HDTV and Blu-ray Disc Player Combine to Deliver True Full High Definition 3D Home Theater Experience
LAS VEGAS, NV (January 7, 2009) – Panasonic, the market and technology leader in HDTV, announced today the U.S. debut of its world’s first 3D Full HD Plasma Home Theater System (3D FHD) this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show 2009. The system made its world debut at CEATEC JAPAN 2008 in October 2008 to very strong reviews.
Panasonic’s 3D Full HD Plasma Home Theater System enables the viewing of true-to-life 3D FHD images by using a Panasonic 103-inch Plasma HDTV and a Panasonic Blu-ray Disc (BD) player, capable of distributing full High Definition (1920 x 1080 pixels) images to the left eye and right eye.
“This goes well beyond conventional 3D and Panasonic is fully committed to making it a reality, and soon,” said Bob Perry, Executive Vice President, Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company. “Plasma is currently the only TV capable of delivering a 3D Full HD experience due in great part to its ability to refresh at a speed which enables multiple image display without loss of resolution. The integration of Hollywood’s 3D content with Panasonic’s industry leading Plasma, Blu-ray and 3D FHD technologies deliver a truly immersive experience which will elevate home entertainment to a whole new level of excitement. You will no longer just be watching a movie, you’ll be experiencing the realism of Hollywood film.”
Realizing 3D Full HD
The 3D experience occurs because the left and right eyes recognize different images. Panasonic’s 3D FHD system comprises a 103-inch Plasma HDTV and a Blu-ray Disc player that plays back Blu-ray Discs onto which 3D video (consisting of left- and right-sided 1080p Full HD images) are recorded. Full HD processing occurs on both the left- and right-sided 3D image in every single process – from recording, playback and display. With a special pair of active shutter glasses that work in synchronization with the Plasma HDTV, the viewer is able to experience 3D images formed with twice the volume of information as regular full HD images, and enjoy them together with high quality surround sound.
Previous consumer 3D entertainment encountered many different problems including the inability to deliver true High Definition picture quality in 3D due to the lack of bandwidth in transport and the limited capacity of the storage. Previous systems also suffered from reduced vertical resolution caused by a 3D display method that divides the scanning lines between the left and right eyes, and picture quality degradation caused by pixel skipping that results from the squeezing of two (left and right) screens’ worth of full HD images into one screen of data capacity for image storage and transmission. Until now, there has not been a system capable of displaying the equivalent quality to the original Hollywood 3D master.
Plasma and Blu-ray Deliver 3D FHD
Panasonic’s 3D FHD Plasma Home Theater System on display at CES 2009 integrates a wide range of technologies which eliminate the issues earlier systems encountered.
1. Plasma Display: The performance of Panasonic’s Plasma panels, whose self-illumination allows for excellent video response, has been brought out to the fullest extent in the development of a 3D driving system that displays the left and right images together as full HD images with no resolution degradation.
2. Blu-ray Disc: Using the optical disc technology developed by Panasonic over many years, and the authoring technology developed by Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory (PHL), it has been possible to record 3D images — consisting of respective left and right 1080p full HD images – onto a single, standard Blu-ray Disc.
3. Blu-ray Disc Player: Panasonic has developed a technology to decode and play back the left and right full HD image data recorded to the Blu-ray Disc in real time.
4. 3D Images: Panasonic has produced 3D content that allows the viewers to experience fascinating 3D images, including dynamic images of athletes at the Olympic Games, and animated movies from Hollywood.
* World’s first system to create true-to-life 3D Full HD images by providing full HD images to left-eye and right-eye, as of September 22, 2008
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Panasonic is doing all this for 3D TV, yet they can’t upgrade my DMR-E85H DVD/HDD recorder with a digital tuner!!
In point of fact, they won’t even sell me any sort of new DVD/HDD recorder!! I live in the USA, Panasonic does not support the USA, they only sell the recorders overseas!! They have left me with an analog tuner, no support, and they don’t care!
I’m supposed to be excited that Panasonic is introducing 3D TV?!
I am excited to hear that 3D TV is coming, but, I think I’ll look for another company to buy it from!
A 3D Full HD Plasma Home Theater System (3D FHD) that requires shutter glasses now that is dumb
nobody should be forced to wear them when autostereoscopic 3d tvs would make better viewing
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