CES: Verizon Demos Full HD 3D To Via Panasonic Blu-Ray Player

Telco shows FiOS TV guide running as an app on Panasonic, Samsung devices

By Todd Spangler, Multichannel News -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/7/2011 4:27:20 PM

Las Vegas -- Verizon showed off full HD 3D video -- in contrast to the "frame compatible" 3D currently available from pay TV providers -- over FiOS TV streaming to a Panasonic Blu-ray Disc 3D player here at the Consumer Electronics Show.

The telco enabled the demo by porting its interactive program guide to run on the Panasonic player. The video, a clip of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, was delivered with 1080p for both left- and right-eye images. Frame-compatible 3D delivers half the resolution of HD, by squeezing both images into one screen.

"Panasonic has always believed that the best way to view 3D is via a Full HD, 1080p resolution image, but until now the only option available has been on Blu-ray Disc media," Panasonic chief technology officer Eisuke Tsuyuzaki said in a statement. "Over Verizon's high-bandwidth FiOS network, we've now shown that this kind of innovation can be accomplished by a premium television service like FiOS as well."

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