LinkNotes: Panasonic's 3D Full HD Plasma Theater System

2008-09-27

Panasonic's 3D Full HD Plasma Theater System

Panasonic announced that it has developed the world's first 3D full HD Plasma Theater System. The system uses a plasma television and a Blu-ray Disc player capable of decoding and playing back 3D images. To experience the 3D effect a user wears eyeglasses with liquid crystal shutters.

Clipped from: Panasonic Develops World's First 3D Full HD Plasma Theater System | Headquarters News | Panasonic Global

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

Clipped from: [CEATEC Preview] Blu-ray, Glasses Used to Watch 3D Video on 103-inch PDP TV -- Tech-On!

[CEATEC Preview] Blu-ray, Glasses Used to Watch 3D Video on 103-inch PDP TV
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The system displays 3D images based on the field sequential method in combination with active 3D glasses manufactured by XPAND. Specifically, images for right and left eyes are switched over and alternately displayed for every frame, while synchronously blocking the vision on the opposite side by the liquid crystal shutter.

Thus, the system can provide different images for right and left eyes. While the method using passive glasses results in a lower resolution, the latest system with the active glasses has an advantage to display 3D images without sacrificing the resolution. But the luminance of the 3D images is reduced to 1/4 of that of the standard 2D images.

Clipped from: Translated version of http://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20080924/pana.htm

Plasma TV and BD-103 improved player, 3D-view

LCD shutter glasses

Video demos Left and right images for each eye separately to the two PDP display. LCD shutter glasses in sync with the images that open and close experience of 3D images