We just got a real eyeful of 3D, courtesy of Panasonic's upcoming 1080p plasma and Blu-ray 3D setup. The system uses synced shutters, and was easily some of the best "consumer" 3D we've seen -- almost on par with a theater experience, other than the fact that the screen was a whole lot smaller, at 103-inches. Unfortunately, while Panasonic is heavily touting 3D at IFA this year, just as Sony did at its own presser, there isn't much hard news to show for it. The plasma and Blu-ray combo was
actually announced a full year ago, and the only word we have on release at the moment is "next year." Obviously, readily available 3D content plays a big part in this, and we get the impression that
Avatar is syncing up nicely to be available on some sort of 3D home video format by the time it's ready for a disc release -- we've certainly seen enough teaser clips and trailers of it by now, anyway. To be honest, the 3D setup was seamless enough in our demo room that sometimes it hardly felt 3D.
Avatar was especially "shallow" on the 3D scale (no pictures were allowed of the presentation, not that they would help), and we've yet to see anything mindblowing on that end. If anything, Panasonic's presentation was more an opportunity to be "blown away" by the company's awesome PowerPoint skills, if anything, so feel free to follow along in the gallery below.
posted Sep 3rd 2009 6:17AM
I believe i am first.
/bows
Don't try and dress it up. You're still an idiot.
Does Panasonic intend to promote all of it's future endeavours using Microsoft Office WordArt? I feel like I'm back in 1999 again!
Any particular reason behind that belief?
I believe you are the first to fail at everything, including posting on engadget.
But did you see how that dinosaur just pops out of the screen!!
now that's creativity
I want Panasonic's first monochrome TV.
I posted a video showing this 3D Avatar game including impressions by video game experts: http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/avatar-3d-game-showcased-by-panasonic/
Please doint tell me you doint thought-out to hold the glasses infront of the lens will work for viewers afterwards...please......
When I film through one of the glasses, the blurry stuff goes away at least. You can get an idea. Those glasses are heavy on the nose. I wonder if there are some more confortable lighter 3D glasses. Still, I'm pretty sure most people would puke after 5 minutes of one of these 3D HDTVs. It's cool though, but makes me puke, a little.
Reserving judgement until I see one of these myself.
Wow, just looking at that title makes my eyes hurt.
I love the term "full HD". The last time I checked full HD is what you see through your eyes, not 1080p.
It's because first there was 'HD-ready' which in practice meant 1366x768 pixels or something in that region, there are several definition for HD-ready btw, and differences between he EU and the US in how it was used and became defined, generally it means 720P should be displayable
Anyway to make clear it's actually 1080p they started to then use 'full HD', the full meaning not the fake HD-ready silliness..
I think this 3-D push by TV manufacturers is going to end for them in tears, i.e. slashing prices on TVs that aren't moving on the sales floor and abandoning the tech.
Most people won't be able to get around the whole, "You mean I have to buy and wear these *glasses*?", to say nothing of people who already wear eyeglasses and will balk at wearing glasses ON TOP of glasses.
Right. This will go over *real* well.