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The US Open will be broadcast in 3D for the first time when the annual tournament begins next month, but yet again its availability will be extremely limited.

Panasonic, which has a big 3D content deal with DirecTV, will be supplying all the equipment and production costs for the 3D coverage. The event will thus only be aired in 3D to DirecTV customers.

3D coverage of the US Open will air on n3D, a channel that only DirecTV carries. However, Panasonic has also teamed up with big box electronics retailers like Best Buy to showcase coverage of thetournament on in-store 3D TVs as well.

Panasonic has taken a much more active approach in 3D content than any of the other TV manufacturers. It has singlehandedly made it possible to broadcast prior PGA events as well as Nascar races, in the TV medium. It also is responsible for a lot of the equipment used in DirecTV’s studio-based 3D series.

It is possible that the US Open may also be streamed live online. That would require viewers to have a special kind of computer monitor as well as proprietary 3D glasses from Nvidia. So far, though, it has only been confirmed for DirecTV customers.

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Panasonic, a worldwide leader in Full HD 3D technology, announced today that it has become the Official 3D Sponsor of this week’s BLUE Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit in Monterey, California.  BLUE is a global film festival and conservation summit for underwater filmmakers, marine researchers and conservation leaders. The festival also provides the public the opportunity to experience the world’s largest collection of ocean films.

At BLUE Ocean Film Festival, Panasonic will demonstrate its end-to-end range of Full HD 3D solutions which includes the critically-acclaimed VT25 Series of Full HD 3D VIERA^® Plasma HDTVs, 3D Blu-ray Disc Players and the AG-3DA1 – the Full HD 3D professional camcorder much anticipated by independent film makers.  Also on display will be a new underwater housing for the 3DA1 that will allow videographers to capture life beneath the surface of the ocean in stunning Full HD 3D.

Panasonic will also sponsor a panel discussion titled 3D: Nature’s New Dimension on Friday, August 27 at the Portola Hotel & Spa moderated by Barry Clark, executive producer at Mandalay Media Arts.  Eisuke Tsuyuzaki, Panasonic’s Chief Technology Officer for North America, will be among the featured panelists at the discussion.

One summit attendee will also win a Panasonic Full HD 3D VIERA Home Theater System which includes a VIERA VT25 Series Plasma, Panasonic 3D Blu-ray Disc Player and four pairs of Panasonic Active Shutter 3D Eyewear.

“Panasonic is proud to support the BLUE Oceans Summit and have the opportunity to share with many of the world’s leading oceanographic filmmakers and experts our industry-leading work in 3D technology,” said Panasonic’s Tsuyuzaki.  “The underwater world is among our planet’s most fascinating and mysterious places. The arrival of the 3D era provides filmmakers with a tremendous opportunity to capture the beauty of the ocean in a realistic and immersive way that was not possible a few short years ago and share it with people worldwide so that they too may gain a greater understanding of how important our oceans are.”

“We are very excited to have Panasonic as an official sponsor of the BLUE Oceans Film & Conservation Summit,” said Debbie Kinder, CEO / Executive Director, BLUE Oceans Film Festival.  “The arrival of the 3D era is a very exciting time for the talented film makers that participate in BLUE Oceans and having Panasonic’s industry-leading 3D technology demonstrated here will really give us all a first-hand look at the tremendous power that 3D brings to film making and how it will enrich the entertainment experience for viewers.”

For more information on all of the events and activities at the BLUE Oceans Summit, visitwww.blueoceanfilmfestival.org/home.html. For more information on Panasonic’s Full HD 3D technology, visitwww.panasonic.com/3D.

ORLANDO, FLA. and PHILADELPHIA:Panasonic took 3D production to the people, so to speak, by supplying pre-production models of its new 3D camcorder to wedding videographers. Panasonic said this week that two production companies shot weddings in 3D with the AG-3DA1. The HD-3D camcorder was introduced in April at the NAB show in Las Vegas, where Panasonic accepted $1,000 deposits on it. The dual-lens camcorder becomes available Aug. 27.

Bruno White Entertainment in Orlando shot two weddings in 3D at Disney World. BWE’s Kyle Frazer handled the AG-3DA1. He said the “learning curve on the camcorder wasn’t intimidating… The 3DA1’s mix function made it easy to handle convergence and avoid frame violations.” 

Bernie Mitchell, president of Silver Platter Productions in Knoxville, Tenn., was involved in the shoots: “It’s a very flexible camcorder: we extended it up on a monopod to get some really nice high angle shots, and in one sequence, we actually lay on the ground and shot a nice, low-angle shot framing the bride and groom in a doorway.” 

Michael Brand, ( pictured) principal of Pennsylvania-based Lafayette Hill Studios, also shot two summer weddings with the 3DA1. “I was taking 3D still photos 25 years ago, but until now I couldn’t envision 3D video for weddings,” he said. “You’re not going to take a beam splitter to a church!… The camcorder handles details and blacks beautiful. Because you can adjust convergence so easily, you can produce gorgeous 3D video that is immersive, not gimmicky. It didn’t take me long working with the camcorder to learn where I had to stand for the best shots.”

Both Brand and Frazer are editing the 3D footage on Final Cut Pro with the Dashwood 3D Plugin. 

Panasonic has just announced that the VIERA full HD 3D plasma TV range will be expanded with the introduction of the Panasonic VIERA GT25 Series. This 42″ piece of consumer electronics will target those who want stereoscopic 3D viewing in their living rooms, where the TC-P42G25 is going for a relatively affordable $1699.95, while its larger sibling, the 50″ TC-P50GT25 is $400 more expensive. Expect to see both models hit the market later this month, and to make things more expensive for those who want to branch out to 3D viewing will be disappointed to know that they have to fork out more dough to purchase Active Shutter 3D Eyewear as those are sold separately. [Press Release]

According to Panasonic’s Executive Office, Shiro Nishiguchi: “Panasonic expects Japanese demand for 1 million 3-D TV sets this fiscal, and is hoping to have a 50% market share by new launches”

The new Panasonic 3D Viera TH-P46RT2B and TH-P42RT2B will start shipping in August for sale in Japan. It is not known yet whether or not they will bring integrated 3D TVs to territories outside of Japan, but you would think it is only a matter of time.

source:www.3dtv.co.uk

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Panasonic unveiled a slew of new Lumix cameras just last week, but the company wasn’t quite done with its full camera and camcorder announcements.

Today, Panasonic announced its first 3D high-definition camcorder for consumers (a pro-level 3D camcorder was showcased earlier this year) and teased a prototype Micro Four-Thirds system lens that will add 3D imaging capabilities to its Lumix G interchangeable-lens cameras.

Panasonic’s new offerings also include the company’s first pocket camcorder and an ultracompact HD camcorder, both of which shoot in plain old 2D.
Panasonic HDC-SDT750: A 3D Camcorder for Consumers

Although the 3-CMOS Panasonic HDC-SDT750 HD camcorder uses a dual-lens setup to capture 3D video footage, you’re not locked in to the third dimension. The 3D conversion lens included with the camera is detachable, and the dual-lens 3D attachment mounts onto the HDC-SDT750′s F1.5, 12x optical zoom Leica lens.

With the 3D conversion lens attached, the HDC-SDT750 shoots 960-by-1080 video with each of the two lenses, recording separate footage for the left-eye and right-eye channels. Viewed on a compatible 3D HDTV with compatible active shutter 3D glasses, videos and 14-megapixel stills shot with the camcorder will show a three-dimensional effect.

The camcorder uses the “side-by-side 3D” method of composing and playing back 3D video, which ultimately results in the horizontal resolution for each 3D frame being cut in half when viewed on a 1920-by-1080 HDTV: the 960-pixel-wide footage from the left- and right-lens channels are stretched to fill a 1920-pixel horizontal resolution, then sequenced to correspond with shutter activity in the 3D glasses.

According to Panasonic, there are a couple of notable changes to the camera’s performance with the 3D lens attached: the camcorder’s maximum aperture setting dips to F3.5 with the lens attached, and use of the camcorder’s control ring is limited to white-balance adjustments when shooting in 3D.

Without the 3D lens, the camcorder shoots 1920-by-1080 full HD video at 60 progressive frames per second at its highest-quality video setting, which uses the MPEG-4/H.264 AVC codec. The camcorder also records 1920-by-1080 HD video at 60 interlaced fields per second in AVCHD format at a bit rate of 17mbps; all the footage is saved to a user-supplied SDHC or SDXC card.

Other notable features include a revamped Hybrid OIS image-stabilization system, manual controls, Intelligent Auto mode, motion-tracking autofocus, a 3-inch-diagonal flip-out touchscreen LCD, and 5.1-channel surround sound recording.

Priced at $1400, the Panasonic HDC-SDT750 is slated for October release.
New 3D Lens for Micro Four-Thirds Cameras

Much less is known about the new 3D lens for Panasonic’s Lumix G-Series cameras; at the time of writing, Panasonic hadn’t even released an image of the new lens. The 3D Micro Four-Thirds lens is expected to be available by the end of the year.

The lens is still in prototype stage, and Panasonic was unable to comment on many specifics. It’s still unknown whether the 3D Micro Four-Thirds lens will be compatible with all Panasonic G-series cameras, whether it will be compatible with Olympus’s Micro Four-Thirds cameras, whether the new lens will support video capture as well as still images, and whether a firmware update will be necessary for the new lens to work properly with existing Lumix G cameras.

Source:www.pcworld.com

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Amimon — remember those guys? The company responsible for transmitting 1080p video over a 5GHz band went (nearly) radio silent after making a few announcements at CES this year, but now it’s hitting back with a new prototype system designed to support the bandwagon that James Cameron and company are driving forward. The new setup is capable of wirelessly transmitting 3D HD video using WHDI (5GHz), with the demo showing that 1080p 3D video could be beamed with a frame rate of 24fps without any major hiccups. For now, the system consists of a board for transmitting the signals and a board for receiving, with the both of ‘em equipped with Amimon’s digital baseband chip and RF transceiver. We’re told that a shipping product is just a logo away, but we’ve no clue whether or not the first devices will be kits for outfitting existing televisions or new HDTVs with wireless 3D HD support baked right in.

sources Tech-On, www.engadget.com

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