Sony’s 3D TV lineup for 2010 are hitting the street. There are a couple of important points to note. While all of the models below are capable of displaying 3D content, not all 3D TVs will come packaged with glasses and the ability to sync 3D signals with those glasses.
The 3D integratedXBR-LX900 features a built-in 3D sync transmitter and two pair of active shutter glasses.
The 3D readyXBR-HX909 and KDL-HX800 series offer the option of adding the 3D sync transmitter and glasses at an additional cost.
The Panasonic Viera VT25 Series of 3D plasma TVs should be arriving on store shelves soon. There will be 4 models available ranging from 50″ to 65″ screens. [click to continue…]
Samsung has announced the global launch of its Full HD 3D LED TV effective March 9, 2010. In its first series of new 3D products, Samsung is launching LED TVs, Blu-ray players and 3D active glasses.
The 3D capable 46” and 55” Samsung LED C7000 TVs should be available in March 2010 at initial retail prices of $2600 (model # UN46C7000) and $3300 (model # UN55C7000), respectively. Check availability:
The Samsung BD-C6900 is a 3D Blu-ray player, which should be available in March 2010 at an initial retail price of $399.99. Check availability for the Samsung BD-C6900 on Amazon.com.
Additionally, the Samsung HT-C6930W is a new Blu-ray player and home theater system combo unit with 3D capability, which should be available in April 2010 at an initial retail price of $899.99.
For a limited time, consumers will receive a free 3D Starter Kit with the purchase of a Samsung 3D HDTV and either the Samsung BD-C6900 3D Blu-ray Player or the HT-C6930W 3D Home Theater System highlighted above. Included in the kit is a 3D version of “Monsters vs. Aliens”® and two pairs of Samsung 3D Active Glasses.
HDI is a startup that is taking a different approach to refining the 3D viewing experience. They’ve put together a 100-inch laser screen that displays 3D video in true 1080p HD. Additionally, the HDI laser-based display has a 1080 hertz refresh rate, which means the video signal actually refreshes over 1000 times per second.
More on HDI’s philosophy and developments in the news release below. [click to continue…]
In Alioscopy’s latest move, they’ve developed a template-based User Generated Content platform that allows users to drag and drop content for no-glasses 3D creations in real-time.
Panasonic Develops World’s First
3D Full HD Plasma Theater System*
Presenting High Quality 3D Viewing with Plasma TV and Blu-ray Disc
at CEATEC JAPAN 2008
Osaka, Japan – Panasonic, the leading brand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known, has developed the world’s first 3D full HD Plasma Theater System, which enables the viewing of true-to-life 3D images by using a 103-inch plasma television and a Blu-ray Disc (BD) player, distributing full high-definition (HD) (1920 x 1080 pixels) images to left eye and right eye. Panasonic will present this system at CEATEC JAPAN 2008, which is due to be held at Makuhari Messe from September 30 to October 4, 2008.
Human beings feel the 3D impression because each of the left and right eyes recognizes different images. Panasonic’s system comprises a 103-inch plasma television and a BD player that plays back BD onto which 3D images, consisting of left- and right-sided 1080p full HD images, are recorded. By wearing active shutter glasses that work in synchronization with the plasma television, 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. This system enables full HD signal processing on each of the left and right images in every process — recording, playback and display.
Previous consumer 3D display systems have encountered many different problems, including 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’s worth of data capacity for image storage and transmission. Until now, there has not been a system capable of displaying the equivalent quality to original master of Hollywood 3D movies.
Panasonic has developed the following technologies for realizing the new system.
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.
BD: Using the optical disc technology cultivated 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 BD.
BD player: Panasonic has developed a technology to decode and play back the left and right full HD image data recorded to the BD in real time.
3D images: Panasonic has produced 3D contents that allow the viewers to experience fascinating 3D images, including dynamic images of athletes at the Olympic Games, and animated movies by Hollywood. These contents will be shown in a special theater set up in the Panasonic booth in Hall 3 at CEATEC JAPAN 2008.
Panasonic will work to promote the 3D system by standardization of 3D format at Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), with the cooperation of the Hollywood studios and consumer electric companies which are members of BDA, in order to allow consumers to enjoy 3D images in the comfort of their own homes.
* World’s first system to create true-to-life 3D images by providing full HD images to left eye and right eye, as of September 22, 2008
