@blackwiggle: <--Inserted by SaturnReturn as an example of a better way to address posts directly before.
No mention of acquiring the NEC factory there. Again, to the best of my knowledge Panny only acquired staff and patents, there would have been no need for them to acquire the factory given that they already own 5 plasma manufacturing facilities.
Yeah that's why I said I don't know why they would go that route. The encoding is a 1080p48 encoding and non-3D panels will simply ignore the right-eye frames as the left eye is deemed the master field to get 1080p24.Originally Posted by ProblemSolver
@blackwiggle: So I hope they will all do at least 3-D and not 2.9-D or
even 3.2-D.
@dobyblue: That's a lot of outsourcing. xD Well, I thing Connavar meant
10.2 Gbps. About the 'new Panasonic Blu-ray player', where to buy and where
are the specs? Would be cool if that player can do 1080p@120Hz, but I can't
see why 120Hz would be beneficial here since blu-rays aren't recorded at
60fps for 3-D, or? That would be new to me, if true.
The VT25 series Panasonic sets will show 3D at 120Hz, the Blu-ray player performing 3:2 telecine on EACH of the frames, both left and right, converting 1080p48 to 1080p120. It seems bizarre to me that there is not an option for 1080p48 output with 96Hz refresh rate (2:2 pulldown on each side) eliminating 3:2 judder.
I'm waiting until next year anyway. One of two of the Kuro patents have shown up in the newest sets, but that was pretty much rushed in from what I can gather and the true effect of the Kuro R&D team will not be seen until next year's models, which touring calibrator D-Nice from the AVS forums claims will surpass the Kuro sets for minimum luminance levels and ANSI contrast...a feat no other TV on the market is close to doing.
The Panasonic Blu-ray player is model # DMP-BDT300 and I think it might be exclusive to Best Buy at the moment, but hopefully not for much longer. Retailer exclusives induce hostility in me as a consumer.
Nice thing about the Panny is you can run its TWO HDMI outputs in parallel so that you don't have to upgrade your receiver to still get lossless digital audio. One is HDMI 1.4, the secondary port is legacy HDMI 1.3
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