If price is no object, and you want a real home cinema experience and have it in 3D, Panasonic will soon have you covered. Panasonic Solutions Company, which actually offers display solutions for government and commercial enterprise (as opposed to the retail market), has officially debuted its new line of Full HD 3D plasma displays in truly massive sizes.
At this year's InfoComm show, Panasonic announced formal plans to bring to market three fairly massive displays, all ready for the latest 3D formats including Blu-ray 3D and 3D TV broadcasts. With prices that aren't exactly for the faint of the heart, users can experience 3D in 85-inch, 103-inch and the monolithic 152-inch screen sizes - the latter being equivalent to nine 50-inch screens.
The Panasonic Solutions Company TH-152UX1, measuring 152-inches diagonally with 4K x 2K (4096x2160) resolution, is truly the largest flat panel 3D TV we're likely to ever see, at least until they start making OLED wallpaper. Price, and retailers haven't been announced, but the displays are targeted to be released in January 2011. Some of us here at Big Picture Big Sound saw one of these giant screens at CES in January, and were impressed by its performance, but to hear it will be making it into general production so soon is a surprise.
If you can't wait that long and have a desire for slightly downsized screen sizes, the TH-85VX200U 85-inch and TH-105VX200U 103-inch versions will arrive in December of this year, with suggested prices of $45,000 and $65,000 respectively. While these aren't the first ultra big displays from Panasonic, these new models for late 2010 and early 2011 add the 3D support. Panasonic Solutions Company is also pushing these beyond just the millionaires with money burning a hole in their pockets, suggesting how these displays could be used for 3D CAD proposals, commercial applications and even in healthcare applications. Why send a specialized surgeon halfway around the world when he (or she) can operate remotely visualizing things on a 103-inch 3D HD screen?
Of course, we can't help but think how nice these would be in a home theater setting. To any end the sets enable Full HD in 3D, and feature Panasonic's 3D ultra high-speed drive technology and motion prediction technology to eliminate crosstalk and ghosting between left and right images. The models feature near-infinite contrast ratios of 5,000,000:1, along with a 30-bit Color Processing Engine, and a Cinematic Playback feature which enables crisp, smooth playback of images originally recorded in 24p (24 frames/second). As with other panels meant for commercial applications, these models don't feature the usual inputs, and instead have been outfitted with SLOT 2.0 function allowing different terminal boards to be inserted based on the end user's needs.
We see this one working well with a couple of HDMI inputs, a Blu-ray player and a few suitably enormous amps and speakers. Hopefully there will be enough money left over for the popcorn machine.
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