3D News &3D TV 20 Mar 2010 02:26 pm
3D TV Bundles
Both Samsung and Panasonic have recently debuted 3D TV bundles with Blu-ray players and active-shutter glasses.
Panasonic’s package features the TC-P50VT20, a 50-inch 1080p 3DTV for $2,900 which comes bundled with Panasonic’s DMP-BDT300 3D Blu-ray player, which is capable of playing Blu-ray discs and DVDs and also has access to Netflix, Pandora and Twitter. This bundle is only sold through Best Buy. Included in the bundle is one free set of ($200) battery-operated 3D glasses.
Panasonic has added a 55-inch model for $400 more. Reports are Panasonic sold out in its first week of sales. Samsung released a bundled 3D TV package over a week ago, has not yet released its 3D shipment or sales figures.
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on 25 Mar 2010 at 9:06 pm 1.Chris said …
I saw a live demo of the Panasonic 3D TV at Best Buy yesterday-absoloutely incredible!
Only issues are the glasses-you get a bit of a headache after wearing them for ten minutes-and having to look directly at the screen which takes more concentration than you realise-probably contributed to the discomfort.
Picture quality, colors and “depth” of 3D are stunning. Would lke to buy this but until there is real programming and decent selection of movies etc it seems that laying out $3-4000 doesn’t get you anything other than being first on the block to have 3D.
Very impressed with what I saw and I am picky with low threshold of tolerance for not getting what you expect. Panasonic has really done an incredible job with this TV-hope the black level fading issues don’t undo the great work here.
on 26 Mar 2010 at 9:46 am 2.Del Crowe said …
I don’t believe that 3D TV will catch on until it can be experienced without the glasses. The technology still has a long way to go before it is viable.