3D Blu-Ray will launch next year, at least according to Panasonic, which is pushing hard for acceptance of its new 3D system as the standard way of squeezing 3D pictures from existing Blu-Ray discs. Will it work? Find out why it just might after the break.
Panasonic has been busily showing off its 3D Home Theatre concept since CES. It’s a whopping 103 inch plasma screen hooked up to a special 3D Blu-Ray player which processes twice the data as a normal Blu-Ray player, but at the same speed. The reason it’s doing that is to deliver full HD images to each eye at once, using special electronic glasses. In effect, it’s playing two full HD movies at once. One for each peeper.
To deliver the 3D Blu-Ray effect the glasses use Active Shutter technology to direct the correct image to the correct eye. They’re not multicoloured specs, although we’ll be the first to admit, they hardly look cool. The upshot, however, is that the 3D images it produces are full quality, and look sublime.
Now Panasonic is pushing the Blu-Ray Disc Association to adopt its system as the standard for 3D Blu-Ray. Panasonic says there are plenty of others working on similar technology, but it will have the equipment required on sale next year, and is poised to scoop the exclusive on it.
Give us your thoughts. Do you want to watch 3D Blu-Ray, or is Panasonic trying to force the third dimension upon us? Thoughts on a comment in the usual place.
Out next year | £TBC | Panasonic
