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We told you it was coming: 3DTV.  And now at CES 2009, Panasonic is going to be showing off just that.

Matsushita Electric Co, Ltd. is using their Panasonic brand to demonstrate a 103-inch plasma 3DTV and Blu-ray disc player that delivers high def images (1920 x 1080 pixels for both eyes).  Users are still required to wear special glasses.  These glasses are synchronized shutter glasses and not quite the same as the funky plastic orange ones you may be imagining.

Their system works in a way that it incorporates two complete HD images at the recording, playback, and display stages.  Matsushita says that they have found a way to place both sets of HD images for a full movie onto one Blu-Ray Disc, as well as defined a way to decode and perform real-time play back the two HD images from the drive.

Chris Chinnock, president of market watcher Insight Media whose May report noted Mitsubishi and Samsung have released early 3DTV sets working with technology providers such as DDD Group plc (Santa Monica, Calif.). said “I am not surprised to see more 3-D plasma displays come to market.  We forecast plasma displays will see wide adoption of 3-D.  What is new is Panasonic’s codec to fit two 1920 x 1080 images into a single Blu-Ray stream,” he added. “They don’t state the frame rate per eye, but it needs to be 60 Hz per eye to be acceptable.”

Ok, so obviously majorly cool if this actually comes to market.  You know, for real people, not just to showcase for us to look at and drool over.  Then again, can you just imagine the pricetag on this puppy?!

I’m also curious to see if the touted 3DTV is going to be on a Viera since that is the one Panasonic is showing off at CES.  Keep it right here for more info as Gadgetell brings you all the latest from CES, including updates on Panasonic’s 3DTV.

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