Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative

Deputy Senior General Manager, Home Entertainment Development Div., Sony Corporation Jun Yonemitsu said, “Through this alliance, we all look forward to addressing critical industry issues to enable a better consumer experience across products. We believe active 3D technology is the most suitable method to deliver full 1080p picture quality to each eye, giving consumers the 3D experience they most desire.”

After binding in this agreement, all of them will work in collaboration for the development and licensing of RF (Radio Frequency) system 3D active glasses technology which includes Radio Frequency System Protocol among consumer 3D active glasses and 3D displays for instance TV, PC, Projectors, 3D theaters with XPAND active shutter glasses.

General Manager of Media & Content Alliance Office, Corporate R&D Division, Panasonic Corporation Masayuki Kozuka said, “Panasonic has been working to standardize 3D glasses technologies, and in March, we announced a joint licensing of IR system protocols with XPAND, backed by several participant companies. We are very pleased that today’s latest collaboration will incorporate our previous concept into these new standardization efforts. We hope the expanded collaboration on this 3D standardization initiative will make a significant contribution toward accelerating the growth of 3D-related products.”

This license is expected to be released in September 2011 and then the development of standardized active 3D glasses will be initiated. Universal glasses with novel IR/RF protocols will be on hand in 2012 and will be compatible with the 3D active TVs of 2011.

XPAND 3D’s CEO Maria Costeira said, “We are delighted to contribute our efforts and technologies to the Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative for both RF and IR technology that we announced today with Panasonic, Samsung and Sony. This initiative reinforces the consumer electronics industry’s commitment to highest 3D quality and provides technology consumers and theater-goers with a simple but powerful solution to the challenge of interoperability.”

The digital cameras industry is one of the most frequently rising industry of the world that is getting advance day by day and such exciting facilities have been provided to the latest cameras and camcorders that you might not have thought some years ago. Panasonic is one of the most active members of the digital camera industry and this year the company has provided many amazing digital cameras to the international markets.  The LUMIX range by Panasonic is the most out-class series of digital cameras that has been recently adorned with some fantastic new members.

Here I am going to discuss the latest member of the 2010 LUMIX series ‘the DMC-G2R’ and this one has won the title of best digital camera of 2010 shortly after its release. This is an entirely new kind of camera that comes with a new touch screen system and it is also claimed to be the first camera of the world that is coming with touch controlled shooting. Some of the excitements that this camera carries with it include: 12.1MP interchangeable lens, 3.0inch touch LCD screen, dust reduction system, advance color temperature settings, microphone, speaker, HDMI and others. If you want to have some more details of the features present in this camera then just go through the section discussed below.

Features:

1. The first and foremost exciting feature of this camera is the touch enabled LCD display that makes manual focusing much more like a fun. This camera is claimed to be the world’s first camera with touch control shooting and this capability has made handling of important controls quite easy.
2. This camera also helps you in shooting the HD movies and also capturing the HD photos, thus for the quality of pictures or videos you should not worry as it the most efficient ever camera for storing your beautiful memories for future.
3. It carries an amazing AF tracking facility which locks on some particular subject and follows it around, while following the subject, quality never gets affected as the camera keeps it in sharp focus and properly exposed.
4. The 12.1Mp Live MOS sensor ensures perfect quality of images and lower power consumption thus along with giving you the perfect quality of images and videos it also works as an energy efficient camera.
5. This camera carries an intelligent resolution technology that identifies all the parts with outlines and with that it also identifies detailed texture areas and soft gradation areas, and optimizes the edge emphasis on the outlines and detailed texture areas while using the Venus Engine noise reduction process to make the soft gradation areas smoother.

Specifications:

• Image Sensor Type: Live MOS Sensor
  • Total pixels:13.1 Megapixels
  • Color filter: Primary color filter
• Camera Type: Digital Interchangeable Lens Camera
• Focus Type: Contrast AF system / Focus mode: AFS/AFC/MF
  • AF mode: Face detection/AF Tracking/23-area-focusing/1-area-focusing /Touch(1area-focusing in Face detection/AF Tracking/Multi-area-focusing/1area-focusing)
• Color Temperature Setting: 2500-10000K in 100K
• Recording Format Still Image: JPEG (DCF, Exif 2.21), RAW, DPOF compatible
  • Still Image with Audio: JPEG (DCF, Exif 2.21) + QuickTime
  • Motion Image: AVCHD Lite / QuickTime Motion JPEG
• Image Quality: RAW, RAW+Fine, RAW+Standard, Fine, Standard
• LCD Monitor Type: Low temperature Polycrystalline TFT LCD with Touch panel
  • Monitor size:Free-angle 3.0inch / 3:2 Aspect / Wide viewing angle
  • Pixels:460K dots
  • Field of view:Approx.100%
  • Monitor Adjust.:Brightness(7 levels),Color (7 levels)
• Live View:  DigitalZoom: 2x,4x
  • ExtraOpticalZoom:Max.2x(Not effective with L size recording. Mag. ratio depends on the record. Pixels and aspect ratio.)
  • Motion image: 3.1x(SH/H/L-AVCHD Lite and HD/WVGA in MotionJPEG),4.2x(VGA/QVGA in MotionJPEG)
  • HDMI: miniHDMI TypeC
  • Video: Auto / 1080i / 720p / 480p
  • Audio: Stereo / Monaural
• Dimensions (W x H x D): 124 x 83.6 x 74mm / 4.88 x 3.29 x 2.91 in
• Weight: Approx. 593g / 20.92 oz (SD card, Battery, 14-42mm lens included)
  • Approx. 810g / 28.57 oz (SD card, Battery, 45-200mm lens included)
  • Approx. 371g / 13.09 oz (Body only)
• Remote Control: Remote control with bulb function by DMW-RSL1 (Optional)

From the features and specifications provided by the official platforms it can be seen that this camera is the most advance one in everything it carries. If you want to get the most advance camera for you than this one deserves to be your choice.

Panasonic has got a great reputation in the digital cameras industry for consistently bringing highly advance and latest technologies based cameras for the international markets. Recently the company has brought a really amazing lineup of the Lumix cameras that are not only amazing in their style and looks but also ultra-compact in their capabilities. The new lineup includes FZ40, FZ100, FX700, TS10 but the main flagship model introduced is the LX5 which the is a true master piece. This July the company has really got its place in the markets through these cameras and the main reason is that it’s the vacation time and industry is at its peak nowadays.

Here I am going to discuss the ‘LX5’ in some more details, basically it is the successor to the LX3 which was introduced 2 years ago and just like the previous model the LX5 got the huge round of applause from the viewers just at the time of its release. The LX5 is almost similar to the LX3 but the main difference includes a fully redesigned lens, the CCD and image processing engine. The looks of the camera are completely same as before, the same retro style design with the similar manual controls. Lets discus the features of this camera is some more details.

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Features:

1. It is basically a 10.1 megapixels camera that can give you the top level image quality that is comparatively better than the other high class cameras of the industry. It has also got the evolved sensors technology which adds up perfection to whatever you are shooting.
2. It comes equipped with F2.0 24mm ultra-wide-angle LEICA DC VARIO-SUMMICRON lens that ensures the perfection and clarity in the quality of images. It promises perfect image results even in the low light areas so you don’t have to worry about the environmental conditions while shooting with this camera.
3. It has got a high resolution 3.0inch LCD display with approx. 100% Wide Viewing Angle AUTO Power LCD mode. The brightness and contrasts of the screen ensures perfect platform where you can image all your stuff easily even at the day time.
4. Along with giving you the motion JPEG images, it also brings the feature for capturing HD movies and motion pictures. The 720p HD video capture of this camera brings the excitement of shooting videos along with capturing the photographs.
5. It has got advance face recognition and detection technologies that beautifully ensures the sharpness and accuracy of shots which you capture with this camera.

Specifications:

• Dimensions (W x H x D): 4.32 x 2.58 x 1.69 in / excl. protrusions: 1.00 in
• Weight (lbs): Approx 61lb with Battery and SD Memory Card
  • Approx. 51lb without Battery and SD Memory Card
• Shutter Speed Still: 60 – 1/4000 sec
  • Movie Mode : 1/30 – 1/20,000 sec
  • Starry Sky Mode: 15, 30, 60sec.
• Power:  ID-Security Li-ion Battery Pack (3.6V, Minimum: 1250mAh) (Included)
  • AC Adaptor (Input: 110-240V AC) (Optional)
• Battery Life:  400 pictures (CIPA Standard)
• Included Software: PHOTOfunSTUDIO 5.0 HD Edition, SILKYPIX Developer Studio 3.1 SE, QuickTime, Adobe Reader
• My Color: Mode Expressive /Retro / Pure / Elegant / Monochrome / High Dynamic / Dynamic Art / Dynamic B&W / Silhouette / Pinhole / Film Grain / Custom / Happy (only in iA mode)
• LCD Monitor: 3.0″ TFT Screen LCD Display (460K dots), AR Coating
  • Field of View : approx. 100% Wide Viewing Angle
  • AUTO Power LCD mode, Power LCD mode
  • High CRI (Color Rendering Index) LED backlight
• Film Mode: Standard / Dynamic / Nature /Smooth / Vibrant / Nostalgic / Standard B&W / Dynamic B&W / Smooth B&W / My Film 1, 2 / Multi Film
• Built-in-Flash: Auto, Auto/Red-eye Reduction, Forced On, Slow Sync./Red-eye Reduction, Forced Off,Flash Synchro; 1st / 2nd
  • 0.8 – 7.2m (Wide/ISO Auto), 0.3 – 4.4m (Tele/ISO Auto)

From the features and specifications, one thing gets cleared in the mind that this is a really exciting camera that has got the majority of advance features and is capable to make you enjoy each and every shot your capture with it. If you want to store you memories in the complete clarity and perfection then this one is the best choice.

From the past sometime you can see that Panasonic is very much active into the exposure of new technologies in its digital products, in the last week the company brought an exciting new lineup of HD digital cameras some of which were also 3D capable. Now a new and a super exciting thing have been leaked for the company’s future products line and it is the ‘Panasonic HDC-SDT750 camcorder’ whose specifications have been leaked out before official announcement.

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This thing have been heard before that Panasonic is planning to bring more 3D capable and affordable cameras and camcorders for the international markets but before the company would have said about anything about the new products, reports have shown that what is coming.

According to the company’s claims the upcoming camcorder is going to be the world’s first 3D shooting camcorder and according to the specification leaked, it will have the capability to shoot in 1080p AVCHD at 60fps and with that it will feature Panasonic’s Hybrid O.I.S. image stabilization tech.

The camera is not going to be an entirely new model coming from Panasonic but it will be an upgrade of the existing 3MOS model and the exciting thing will definitely be the “3D conversion lens” attached to it. So just wait and watch out for the time when Panasonic will actually bring this excitement in the markets.

Competition in long zoom, compact camera making is getting tougher with the passage of time. Leading manufacturers like Fujifilm, Casio, Canon and Panasonic are individually trying to leave others far behind in this industry. Today, I am going to review a super zoom compact camera made by Panasonic called Lumix TZ10. let us have a look at its specs and features.

Specs:

• Type: Point and shoot
• Dimensions: 4.07 in x 2.35 in x 1.28 in
• Weight: 7.69 ounces
• Viewfinder type: LCD
• Screen size: 3 inches
• Screen type: LCD (Active, Color)
• Camera effective resolution: 12.1 MP
• Sensor type: CCD
• Mage stabilization; optical
• ISO Modes: Auto, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600
• Optical zoom: 12x
• Aperture: 3.3 – 4.9
• Focal length: 4.1 – 49.2 mm
• Intelligent zoom: 16x
• Lens: LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR
• 2-speed zoom
• Optical image stabilizer: Power O.I.S.
• Digital zoom: 4x
• Focus range display
• AF assist lamp
• Flash: Internal
• Internal memory: 15 MB
• Memory card: SD (SDHC)
• Video recording

Features:

Let us begin with the screen. It is a 3 inches LCD that is present on the back side of camera and shows vivid and sharp picture. The lens in this compact camera is a 25 mm ultra wide-angle LEICA DC VARIO ELMAR and has a commendable 12x optical zoom. This super zoom and optical image stabilization work great together. Another notable feature is its GPS tagging.

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This superb feature can be switched on and off (according to your preference and choice) through the menu system. When it is turned on, it records the time at which you take a picture. Also, it records particular geographic details of the area where you take the picture. Try the genius system of TZ10 while you are out of your country; it will set the local time of the place (where you presently are) automatically. It will show you name of the area, the town and landmark (its memory covers 500,000 landmarks present in 73 countries worldwide). This feature is surely going to attract habitual tourists as it makes organizing albums easier than ever before.

Shooting modes include manual, shutter priority and aperture priority. These modes will attract serious photographers towards this compact camera. Also, there are two scene modes for customization. Overall, there are 32 shooting modes. Perhaps the best mode is Panasonic’s Intelligent Auto Mode, which does everything by itself and gives you best results.  It optimizes ISO, scene setting, face detection, image stabilization and quick auto focus. The face detection feature can remember up to 5 faces.

All of the camera’s important functions are applicable in the video shooting mode, too. This is amazingly nice feature. Camera records pretty nice video with good audio quality.  This compact, super zoom, GPS active camera can be bought for a very nice and adequate price of £250.

Product’s Unique Selling Points:

• Manual controls
• Nicely priced
• Wonderful image quality
• 12x zoom
• GPS tagging both in still picture mode and video recording mode
• Works well for serious photographers

Limitations:

• No RAW mode

Like any other company of the world Panasonic has been very consistent in bringing new and innovative technologies with its products.  The Micro four thirds cameras have been waited for a long time because of their capabilities and the company has finally brought not only a single but two of them and this is also reported to be the company’s second release this week that is housing the company’s Lumix G Micro System. The G1 announced by the company was among those cameras which have received huge support from the customers and now its successor ‘G2’ has been released which is a bit more powerful than the earlier model.

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The G2 camera is coming with 12.1 megapixels live MOS sensor and the new Venus Engine HD II processor that is making it very powerful and highly capable machinery. Another good thing is its 3 inch LCD touchscreen which helps in managing the controls of your camera very effectively. Apart from the physical features it also carries some very exciting software features which allows to perform some really exciting functions in order to give the exciting results and these includes live view finder function, HD footage shooting ability and the available shooting codec are AVCHD Lite, HD Motion JPEG, QVGA, VGA and WVGA. Thus from every feature we can say that this new camera is going to be very fantastic one that will be able to achieve more success than its predecessor.

Panasonic Corporation of North America has launched its manufacturing showpiece in 2009. It is the renowned Panasonic TC-P54Z1 from its TC-PV10 series. TC-P54Z1 is the most expensive with its exceptional picture quality. The wonderful TC-P54Z1 is bundled with wireless compatibility and amusingly the depth of screen in only one inch. The TC-P54Z1 is leading in electronics because of its extraordinary features like outstanding picture quality, separate tuner configuration box, and wireless technology to deliver vital in lustrous, internet-embedded VIERA Cast functionality with incorporated Amazon video on demand service. These are the features, which are still pending in other relevant instruments. You can rate it as number one due to its features and Panasonic has added this state of the art model in Plasma state. Z1 series with 54” class, cracking launch was done in 2009 summer.

Design

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Panasonic is now leading in Plasma world by launching TC-P54Z1 the thinnest “1 inch deep”. However, this depth is not the actual deference between TC-P54Z1 and other leading Plasma TV current in market. The big difference is color. Panasonic is given smart look by finishing with quality sleek black plastic covered with silver metal flooring above and below the screen. The remaining two sides are decorated with sleek black vertical posse with flooring of silver gives the fantasy of wider screen panel. TC-P54Z1 overall delivers exclusive, stylish emergence and this put across the consciousness of elevated cost.

The TV measurement is 51.3 without and 56.3 inches wide including attached speakers, and 35.2/32.3 inches high by 15/1 inches deep with and without the stand. Wireless access tuner box is of the same size of standard DVD. The wireless transmitter looks like a small antenna and wireless attaches to the backside if panel.

The remote control is also designed beautifully. Remote control has lustrous finish and all-embracing backlighting. Although the look is very shiny but the main menu, features are also very important. The three combinations of keys Viera Link, Viera Cast and Viera tools are placed above the middle control pointer. Remote colors buttons’ size, color and shape segregation is arranged nicely.

Features

TC-P54Z1 wireless connectivity between source and its panel is startling. The external tuner box has HDMI, Ethernet, AV and other required ports. These ports inputs to display with the output from wireless transmitter.

If you have a look on refresh rate, the Z1 has 96Hz screen refresh rate. When the source is 1080p/24 (from Blu-ray player), the 9Hz refresh rate allows the TV to correctly maintain the rhythm of video. Z1 has adjustment of 48Hz settings but recommended is 96Hz to avoid flicker.

THX Display Certification is offered in Z1 models. When you shift to THX picture mode the overall picture quality like, color precision, shadow aspect and other picture features, get better than default settings without enabling mixture of sub settings.

VieraCast is a wonderful feature. You can view videos from You Tube, pictures from online albums and video on demand from Amazon. Ethernet is used to make connectivity to internet. Another amusing feature of VieraCast system is that it includes Netflix streaming and the ability to make voice and video calls via web servers.

TC-P54Z1 is a wonderful by Panasonic. Their features are marvelous. Now you have no need to adopt third party solutions to view online video from popular video sites. Contrast and deep black levels are bundled flawlessly to produce high-class image quality. TV-P54ZI is leading in plasmas’ inherited ability to endow with finer off-axis images.

Features:

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The Panasonic Lumix FZ28 has a wider 18x lens which was absent in all of its predecessors, and it is optically stabilized via Panasonic Mega O.I.S technology. With the new advancement in the AF technology, Panasonic has made this digital camera to lock focus on the objects and capture the picture even if the object is not stationary.

Modes:

The Panasonic Lumix FZ28 is equipped with the following capture modes.

• Intelligent Auto.
• Programme mode.
• Aperture Priority
• Shutter priority
• Custom Mode.
• Motion Picture.

Built and Body:

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The FZ28 is built in “mini SLR” style which is mostly used in the ultra zoom digital cameras, with a long zoom and a firm hand grip. It has a plastic body which may not look attractive amongst the dashing metallic cameras, but certainly not look bad. It has mini joystick controller which can be used along with the directional pad for menu.

Display:

It has 2.7 inch with 230,000 dot display equipped with electronic viewfinder. The FZ28 display is a little sluggish in the bright and low lights, but it work fairly well in moderate light conditions.

Performance:

Auto Focus: The Panasonic FZ28 has the AF technology which enables it to function automatically, as it capture the moving objects and capture a sharp and well focused image.

Lens and zoom: The Fz28 has 18x zoom with a 10.1-megapixil resolution, which make it easy to capture the far away images. The zoom can be increased to 32.1x and this both zoom options make the digital camera the ideal, equally for landscapes photo shots and indoors.

Flash: The FZ28 has an additional popup flash for dim light photo shooting.

Image quality and stability: The Panasonic FZ28 is equipped with Mega O.I.S. which enables the enable the great image stabilization and a great image can be captured even with shaky hands. As far as the image quality is concerned, the colors are sharp and distinctive, with rather good saturation and fair shadow capture.

Battery life: Panasonic FZ28 has a superb SLR battery which will never deceive you and will go on capturing one shot after and other.

Specifications:

• 2.7 inch LCD, 230,000 dot display.
• 10.1 megapixels resolution.
• 18x zoom that can be increased up to 32.1X zoom.
• 6 shooting modes: Intelligent Auto, programme, Aperture, Custom (C1, C2), Motion Picture.
• Multimedia Card memory, with SD and SDHC and 50MB internal memory.
• Rechargeable battery.
• AV input, USB port, DC input.
• Pop up Flash.
• 60-1/2000 seconds shutter speed.
• ISO 100-1600

Unique Selling Point:

• Sharp and distinctive picture.
• Excellent battery life
• Powerful Flash unit.
• Improved zoom lens.

Limitations:

• Noisy photo capture.
• Plastic body.

Specs:

• 15.2” x 49.9” x 33.3”
• 99.2 lbs
• 1 Year Limited Warranty
• Digital Media Playback
• Multi-Language Menu
• Picture Viewer
• Progressive Scan
• Energy Star Compliant
• 1080i (HDTV), 1080p (HDTV), 480i (SDTV), 480p (EDTV), 720p (HDTV)
• HDTV Built-in Tuner
• 1920 x 1080 maximum resolution
• 49.9” Viewable Size
• Contrast ratio: 1,000,000:1
• Aspect Ratio 16:9
• Display Type Plasma
• Static Contrast Ratio 30,000:1
• Diagonal Screen Size 50 in
• Output interfaces: A/V (RCA Composite), Audio – Digital Optical, Variable/Fixed Audio
• Input interfaces: A/V (Composite), Audio – Line In (1/8" Mini), Coaxial (RF), Component Video, Front/Side RCA Composite, HDMI, S-Video, VGA
• Interface connection: Serial – 9 pin D-shell, Ethernet
• Price range: $1,569.83 – $2,095.00 (subject to variation according to time and location)

Features:

This 50” plasma is nicely priced and is equipped with pretty fine features as well. Whether it is about direct streaming from the internet through Ethernet port, or it is about viewing cherished moments’ still images from the SD card; your Panasonic TH-50PZ850U is the solution.

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About the internet; once you plug the TV into the home network system, you will be able to access the online content that is delivered by Panasonic’s Viera Cast service. It includes YouTube, weather reports, Picasa, and Bloomberg. As we all know the original YouTube video size, this TV streams it in a bit smaller window than the 50” screen. If you wish to view the photos stored in an SD card, the TV has an option of it. You can even watch the videos from your SD cards provided their format is either AVCHD or MPEG2.

Fast moving subjects are the best testing point for big screens. Unfortunately, this TV shows pixels while showing fast moving objects. Also, the pixilation is quite of concern in long shots. There are other problems like reddish tones on Caucasian skin and a bad over scan while handling a 720p source.

Remote is nice, though not backlit. It is a long one with big buttons. Also, it is programmable. On screen menu is easy to use although not a pleasure to sight. Like image quality, sound is also adequate, and not above average. If audio factor is important to you, you might need external machinery.

Product’s Unique Selling Points:

• Direct video streaming from the internet via Ethernet port
• Nice programmable remote
• Easy to use on screen menu
• Nicely priced for 50 inches

Limitations:

• Average picture quality
• Average sound quality
• Remote is not backlit

Final Words:

This is one nice 50” Plasma HDTV that offers basically required features, and is a nice choice if too-good is not your priority.

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A high profile AVC/H.264 MPEG-4 encoding has been used in this AVCHD format based HMC40 camcorder. It offers enhanced video performance as well as double bandwidth efficiency on the previous MPEG-2 formats like DVD and HDV. When it comes to HD recordings, you will definitely find them quite clean and crispy.

It also houses some nice profession image functions that include DRS to adjust according to wider lighting variations, a Gamma mode like Cine that gives a really film like touch to the recordings.

It can record in all proficient recording modes available for AVCCAM that include the HA, PH, HG and HE mode.

With a 32GB SDHC memory card, it allows users to record 1920×1080 resolution audio and video for three hours in PH mode, four in HA, 5.3hrs in HG and over 12hrs in HD content,

You can also expand its audio capability as it features +48V, 2-channel input as well as mic/line switchable as separate options that you can purchase with it. Focus assist, wave from monitor display and date time stamp are some other worth-mentioning professional features.