Q&A: is the ps3 3d upgrade compatible with the panasonic 3d hdtv?
Question by Adonian: is the ps3 3d upgrade compatible with the panasonic 3d hdtv?
I know this is probably a dumb question, but I have a PS3, and it is 3D capable (or will be with software update).
Panasonic gives a pair of glasses with their 3D HDTV’s, Samsung doesn’t.
WILL the PS3 work in 3D with ANY of the new 3D tv’s?
I don’t want to pay for the TV AND GLASSES separately, and besides I have seen both Samsung and Panasonic 3D systems, and the Panasonic looks better (and costs $ 500 less).
Best answer:
Answer by ron
best bet would be to call sony
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Review on Panasonic TCP50VT25 (Panasonic TC-P50VT25) 50-inch 1080p Plasma 3D TV
Review on Panasonic TCP50VT25 (Panasonic TC-P50VT25) 50-inch 1080p Plasma 3D TV
Panasonic TCP50VT25 / TC-P50VT25 / TC-P50VT25 TCP50VT25 50 1080p Plasma 3D TV
Panasonic VIERA TC-P50VT25 is a full-high definition HDTV that uses advanced 3D technology and a handful of the company’s unique features to make it compatible with its 3D Blu-Ray Disc players. The Panasonic TC-P50VT25 50-inch HDTV has full HD 3D 1080p resolution and has the the ability to display images at 60 frames per second.
The Panasonic TC-P50VT25 comes with a specially designed pair of 3D glasses, the television has the ability to show 3D images when used with Panasonic’s 3D Full HD Blu-Ray Disc player. To go along with the impressive display quality, the HDTV also has VIERA Link, VIERA CAST to access entertainment websites and VIERA Image Viewer to show digital images on the television screen.
Panasonic TCP50VT25 Specs
* 1920 X 1080 (Full HD) Pixel Resolution
* VIERA Cast WiFi W/ VideoPhone Capabilities
* Inputs: 4 HDMI, 2 Component, 2 RCA, 2 USB 2.0, 1 PC
* Dimensions W/Stand (WHD): 48.2″ X 31.9″ X13.2″ In.
“This TV is awesome. You don’t have to be blown away by the 3D feature when the 2D looks this good. It’s so clear with near perfect color that the 2D looks almost 3D. I ran a video test of the calibration of it and it didn’t need any adjustment. This was a first for me. No red push. The only thing I can find fault with is only one pair of 3D glasses comes with it. Also, if you want to hang it on an already purchased wall mount it does not come with the screws that fit the four holes in the back. Other than that, WOW!” By Robert J. Nolan
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Panasonic Viera?s? Full HD 3D TV Named Winner Of CNET ?Best Of Show? Award at the 2010 International CES
Full HD 3D System
(PRWEB) January 29, 2010
Panasonic, today announced that it has been selected by the editors at CNET (cnet.com) as both the winner of the prestigious “Best of Show” and “Best in Television” category at this year’s “Best of CES” awards for its Full HD VIERA Plasma television. Winners were announced on Saturday, January 9, at 11:00 a.m. (PST) live on the CNET Stage in the South Hall lobby.
The “Best of CES” Awards, which are produced and judged by CNET, recognize the hottest products at the 2010 CES in nine categories, plus a Best in Show and People’s Voice award selected by the CNET online audience. CNET editors received and reviewed hundreds of entries.
By delivering a full 1080p-resolution image to each eye, Panasonic’s Full HD 3D TV technology offers consumers the highest possible visual experience. Panasonic will ship in the Spring of 2010 four HD 3D TV models in sizes including 50-inch class (49.9 inches measured diagonally) , 54-inch class (54 inches measured diagonally), 58-inch class (58 inches measured diagonally) and 65-inch class (65 inches measured diagonally). In addition, all four VIERA 3D TVs feature Panasonic’s VIERA CAST™ IPTV functionality and all models are THX certified.
“Panasonic is extremely honoured and proud to have been recognized by CNET and the Consumer Electronics Association,” said Bob Perry, Senior Vice President, Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company. “This honour truly underscores Panasonic’s leadership in Full HD 3D technology. We are dedicated to bringing 3D technology into the home this year to enhance the entertainment experience.”
The nine categories awarded include Digital photo and video, Car tech and GPS, Cell phones and smartphones, Computers and hardware, Gaming, Green, Home Theater, MP3 and portable video players, and Televisions.
Videos of the finalist products can be found at cnet.com/ces. For more information on Panasonic’s Full HD 3D TV products and technologies, visit panasonic.com/3D.
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Panasonic Joins 3D Project at the Entertainment Technology Center
The Entertainment Technology Center @ USC, a non-profit consortium that brings together top entertainment and consumer electronics companies to listen to and evaluate consumer mindshare towards future technologies, is pleased to announce that Panasonic has joined the ETC@USC as a 3D Project sponsor. ETC’s ongoing 3D Project is looking at all things related to 3D, including the challenges faced when selling 3D products, guidelines for producing and displaying comfortable stereoscopic imagery, opportunities for marketing and advertising in 3D, education and demonstrations for the creative, equipment and retail industries, and more.
“It goes without saying that 3D is here to stay, in the theater, in the home, and in special venues everywhere. Through its many 3D-related projects and initiatives, the ETC@USC has played a key role in fostering an on-going dialogue about the best approach to furthering the success of 3D across many platforms,” said Eisuke Tsuyuzaki, chief technology officer for Panasonic Corporation of North America. “For this and numerous other reasons, we are pleased to join the ETC@USC’s efforts to further the success of 3D.”
Panasonic’s sponsorship will contribute significantly to the Center’s 3D initiatives, including its Consumer 3D Experience Lab and a number of research and industry education efforts. Among these, Panasonic’s participation will help ETC undertake research studies that further explore human factors issues related to viewing 3DTV and the impact of stereoscopic technologies as they relate to the human visual system. The results of this work will be shared with the content creation community to provide insights and guidelines as it continues to produce immersive and visually comfortable 3D content.
In addition, Panasonic will participate in ETC@USC’s other initiatives, including acquiring consumer feedback on 3D products in ETC’s 3D Lab and research on consumer 3D product and service adoption.
“We welcome Panasonic to the ETC@USC as a 3D Project sponsor. As the consumer demand for 3D content becomes greater, content producers and CE manufacturers are going to be faced with many difficult questions about the future of this burgeoning industry. With the help of active participation from sponsors like Panasonic, the ETC@USC will continue to help address the questions facing this industry,” said David Wertheimer, CEO and executive director of the Entertainment Technology Center @ USC.
Panasonic and Samsung Hustle to Advertise 3D TV
We have gone to great pains in making you aware of 3-D TVs, and the technological revolution that, manufacturers claim, they will foment upon their release. After having the opportunity to peruse various companies’ offerings at CES this January, we were candid with you in our ambivalence, and our opinion holds firm four months later. It’s reckless, if not impossible, to endorse or reject a technology in such a fetal stage. While we pundits urge caution, though, manufacturers are busy pushing for consumption.
According to a recent overview by the New York Times, manufacturers like Panasonic and Samsung are both hustling to configure marketing and advertising campaigns. In order to promote their respective 3-D TV lines, Panasonic has dispatched 18-wheelers equipped with 3-D demo stations, LG has been airing 30-second commercials for its 3D-capable Infinia line, and Samsung has shelled out $100 million for promotion, some of which has gone to a 30-second commercial shot with the same technology used in ‘Avatar.’
For our part, we’d much rather see quality content than flashy commercials, and, until we get the former, we’ll be holding on to our money. We’d rather be considered late to the party than write a $3,000 check so that we can watch the same copy of ‘Shrek 2: 3-D’ over and over again.
First Look Preview with Panasonic 3D TV and NVIDIA 3DTV Play
NVIDIA announced 3DTV Play with its partner Panasonic today. 3DTV Play will enable 3D LCD, LED and Plasma TVs, such as those by Panasonic, to play 3D games and Blu-Ray 3D movies from PC to TV using NVIDIA’s new 3DTV software and a NVIDIA GeForce graphic-enabled PC. The software will retail for $39.99. Concurrent with the announcement, NVIDIA showed off 3DTV for the first time on Panasonic’s Touch the Future Tour. GamerLive.TV got an exclusive first look preview of the new technology as it caught up with the tour in Hollywood, California.
3D TV Testing Results Are In
This is a look at cutting edge 3D TV technology about some of the first 3D televisions available. A closer look at a 50-inch plasma, the Panasonic VT-20, and two 46-inch LCD sets from Samsung.
Samsung and Panasonic 3D TVs Now Available
Samsung and Panasonic have begun selling 3-D TVs, inaugurating what manufacturers hope is the era of 3-D viewing in the living room. Checkout this video about 3D TV to see it live in action.
3D TV’s In US Sold Out In First Week
Panasonic Corp. said its 3-D TVs sold out in the U.S. in their first week, raising optimism the technology that helped “Avatar” break records at the box office will extend to living rooms and help boost profits.
The shortage is prompting the world’s largest plasma TV maker to take back-orders from retailers, Hitoshi Otsuki, the senior managing director heading Osaka-based Panasonic’s overseas operations, said in an interview yesterday in Tokyo. He declined to specify figures. “It’s a great opportunity to turn around our TV business,” he said.
TV makers are betting movies such as James Cameron’s “Avatar,” the highest-grossing film of all time, and sports events such as the 2010 FIFA World Cup will help drive demand for 3-D sets using improved technology. Still, a lack of programs and the need to use special eyewear, a reason that thwarted previous attempts to push adoption, may deter consumers.
“There are always people who want to buy high-end products,” said Kazuharu Miura, an analyst at Daiwa Securities Capital Markets Co. in Tokyo, said by phone today. “That’s probably what’s driving sales.”
Panasonic became the first major TV maker to sell 3-D sets in the U.S. when its 50-inch full high-definition plasma TV went on sale at outlets of Best Buy Co. with a pair of glasses and a 3-D Blu-ray player for $2,899.99 on March 10. Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest TV maker, began offering a 55-inch 3-D model there for $3,299.99 on March 14, while Sony Corp. plans to start selling 3-D Bravia TVs from June.
Unprofitable TV Operations
Samsung hasn’t yet tracked its 3-D TV shipment figures, said Hwang Eun Ju, a spokeswoman at the Suwon, South Korea-based electronics maker.
Panasonic’s TV operations had a loss of more than 10 billion yen ($111 million) in the quarter ended Dec. 31. The business may turn profitable in the year ending March 2011, President Fumio Ohtsubo said March 3.
Panasonic rose 1.7 percent to close at 1,343 yen in Tokyo trading, erasing its loss so far this year. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average gained 1.2 percent. Samsung advanced 4.3 percent in Seoul.
“Avatar” in January passed “Titanic” to become the top- grossing movie worldwide and has taken in $2.64 billion since its release, according to Box Office Mojo.
Box Office Winner
Walt Disney Co.’s “Alice in Wonderland,” the Lewis Carroll tale directed by Tim Burton, made $116.1 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales on its first weekend, the best opening for a 3-D film and the sixth-biggest debut ever, according to Hollywood.com Box-Office.
The biggest draw to 3-D for customers after the success of movies in the format “will be sport broadcasting,” Otsuki said.
TV makers are counting on 3-D broadcasts of major sporting events to stoke demand. FIFA said in December it agreed with Sony to deliver 3-D images from as many as 25 matches of this year’s soccer World Cup in South Africa.
Disney’s ESPN 3-D will start in June and broadcast 85 live events the first year, the Bristol, Connecticut-based sports network said in January. Discovery Communications Inc., Sony and Imax Corp. announced a venture at the time to introduce a 3-D channel in 2011.
‘Real’ Television
Global shipments of 3-D TVs may reach 4.2 million this year and more than triple to 12.9 million in 2011, according to El Segundo, California-based researcher ISuppli Corp. this month. Revenue from the sets may more than double to $20 billion next year, according to ISuppli.
Samsung has said it aims to sell more than 2 million 3-D TVs this year, while Panasonic expects to sell as many as one million globally in the year starting April 1. LG Electronics Inc. has said it’s targeting sales of 400,000 3-D TV sets in 2010.
“Finally we have real televisions,” Bob Perry, a U.S.- based senior vice president at Panasonic’s audio-visual products marketing unit, said in a March 10 Bloomberg Television interview. “3-D makes TV real.”
Sony, which said last week it plans to sell at least 25 million TVs in the year starting April, predicts sales of 3-D sets will probably account for about 10 percent of the total.
Glasses a Deterrent
“It will probably take a long time for 3-D TVs to expand broadly, maybe about three years” said Ichiro Michikoshi, an analyst at electronics research firm BCN Inc. in Tokyo. “There isn’t enough content and consumers dislike wearing the glasses. Those issues will take time to be solved.”
3-D material has been produced for decades without turning into an enduring success. The world’s first commercial 3-D movie was “The Power of Love” in 1922, according to the Internet Movie Database. The lack of technology and the inconvenience the audience felt while watching the films made the popularity of 3- D short-lived in the 1950s, according to Lee Seung Jin, an analyst at Tong Yang Securities Inc. in Seoul.
Samsung has said improved technologies such as enhanced glasses and better flat-panels with improved picture quality will help viewers watch 3-D TVs more comfortably.
3D TV Promotions Have Begun
3D TV is moving right along with major manufacturers and retailers rolling out new offers. Panasonic has paired up with Fox to give away the 3D Blu-ray edition of “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” as an incentive to buy its TVs and Blu-ray players, while Samsung will provide free copies of DreamWorks Animation’s “Monsters vs. Aliens,” followed by the “Shrek” films. Sony had already been touting its own 3D-at-home technology with “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.”
Companies hope that providing consumers with something they can instantly watch on new 3D TVs and Blu-ray players will entice them to pony up the thousands of dollars to buy the hardware.
Panasonic started selling its 3D TVs at Best Buy’s store in New York’s Union Square on Wednesday, bundling a 50-inch plasma TV, one pair of glasses and a 3D Blu-ray player for $2,900. The glasses alone cost $150, while the 3D TV is $2,500.
Fox won’t start offering “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” to Panasonic customers until April. Pic will be its first 3D release on Blu-ray. It has not yet set a release date for the 3D homevid version of “Avatar.”
Meanwhile the 3D Blu-ray version of “Monsters vs. Aliens” will be bundled with Samsung Electronics’ 46-inch set, two pairs of glasses and a 3D Blu-ray player for $3,000, also starting this week.
As a promotional tool, Samsung will have an exclusive on the 3D Blu-ray versions of all four “Shrek” movies later this year for a full year, while regular versions of the Blu-rays will be available through all retailers.
Rivals LG Electronics will introduce its 3D TVs in stores in May, while Sony will bow its hardware in June, and Vizio in August. The TV sets will be able to switch between 3D and regular 2D.
Partnerships between electronics makers and Hollywood aren’t unusual. Bundles of movies with hardware was common when DVD and Blu-ray was introduced, to get consumers to adopt the homevid formats.
Fox had already been working with Panasonic to promote movies, including “Avatar,” while DreamWorks Animation has long paired up with high-tech brands to promote its toons.
As studios release more movies in 3D in theaters, their homevideo divisions are hoping that the sale of 3D TVs will take off and help sell higher-priced 3D Blu-rays, as well, significantly boosting profit margins.
It’s expected that owners of 3D TVs will seek out other movies to view, and the bundles will remind them of other titles that are worthy of slipping on a pair of 3D glasses.
“There may be a couple of times that are considered game changers in the industry and this is that moment for home entertainment,” said Mary Daily, executive VP of marketing for Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. “Over the last year we have seen 3D invigorate the theatrical experience and it will do the same for the living room.”
Naturally, it helps that customers are already fans of the movies being offered.
