"We're gonna need a bigger home theater."
Amid all of the 3D demos and announcements and myriad other more mundane product announcements, Panasonic unveiled their staggering VIERA Ultra High Definition 152-inch NeoPDP Plasma TV. We were invited up close for inspection, and the screen is indeed a single pane of glass. With advances in their Japanese factory, the previously manufactured 103-inch "mother glass"--the original, uncut sheet of plasma-ready screen glass, before it is cut into smaller pieces for more common sizes--has now given way to a new champion, the 152-inch mother glass, making such a high-water mark possible.
This was the CES of 3D however, so perhaps the next fact should not have come as a total surprise: This behemoth not only supports 3D, but with performance better than most. Self-illuminating plasma panels like these offer excellent response to moving images with full-motion picture resolution. This technology enables high-quality Full HD 3D display on the ultra large 152-inch 4K x 2K (4,096 x 2,160 pixels) panel.
Newly developed ultra high-speed 3D drive technology is also at work, and this new panel can provide full HD images for the left and right eyes at twice the volume of data as regular full HD images across the vast expanse of the screen, equivalent to nine 50-inch panels with super-high-resolution--actually four times the 1,920 x 1,080 full HD standard--with no loss of brightness and a "virtually infinite" 5,000,000:1 contrast ratio. And these frame-sequential PDPs inherently reduce the "cross-talk" overlap between the alternate left-eye/right-eye display, for an even clearer 3D experience.
Neither a price nor an availability date was announced at the show, but we're guessing this one will be in the "If you have to ask..." category.
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