Set for demo at CEATEC in Japan, beginning Oct. 6, Panasonic will show its 50in, 3-D-compatible HD plasma display panel and active shutter glasses that enable the viewing of 3-D images, and Sony will show the HFR Comfort-3D, which records at 240fps through a single lens.
Both companies plan to bring 3-D HDTV to the market in 2010. Like it did with HDTV sets before, sports programming is considered a major driver for the new technology.
Panasonic said its newly developed, high-speed 3-D drive technology enables rapid illumination of pixels while maintaining brightness. The panel also incorporates a crosstalk reduction technology allowing for minimizing double-image (ghosting) that occurs when left- and right-eye images are alternately displayed. Plasma display panels have excellent video response with moving picture resolution.
Article continues belowSony said its monocular lens reduces the gap between left and right, using a mirror instead of the shutter. There’s a relay lens in the collimated region (the area that extends from a point source of light parallel to the focal position of the object), and each side uses a CMOS sensor. There is no time difference between left and right eye imaging, bringing smooth natural motion in sports action to 3-D images, Sony said.
