At the annual International NAB in Las Vegas two weeks ago I was invited into Panasonic's private 2nd floor suite where I got a demonstration of Panasonic's upcoming VX300. It was a 42" size and the VX300 was flanked by the VX200 and another high-end Panasonic plasma pro monitor. The demonstration audience included me and three top TV Broadcast network engineers and was run by the Pro Division's director of business development along side three Japanese pro plasma design engineers.
It was easy to pick out the VX300 as it looked absolutely stunning. The VX300 delivers as perfect as a picture can be. Sorry to say I'm not allowed to discuss everything that was told to me about how Panasonic design engineers got the pq to look so amazing. The VX300 is available in the pro market and is designed to be the studio reference display used to calibrate the video of TV Broadcast feeds and Hollywood produced film as well as post and pre-production video.
The will be available in 42", 50" and 65" sizes and will launch in Q4 '11. No prices are available at this time.
The TV has a matte black bezel and is thicker than the consumer TVs. It's strictly a monitor with no audio or tuners and has many options for difference video input card configuration, like dual DVI for stereoscopic inputs and various ways to control the stereo images, l/r side by side, l/l or r/r side by side or one at at a time, ect.
-Robert
