Checking in on the HMZ-T1 product page today (11/1), we can see that Sony moved the “available on or about” date back to 11/4. This is still a week ahead of the international launch of 11/11, but delayed still from the initially presented 10/26 date. I’m hoping that they won’t continue to push the date back to match (or surpass) the internationally advertised release.
Though the HMD isn’t out yet, the product page has a bunch of reviews on it. Most are just people expressing excitement, but a few are experiences form people who have had the opportunity to try the device on for themselves. Here is one of those reviews:
Guys, here’s my personal take of this item thus far from (total) of 3 hours playing with the unit at the Sony Store:
- It’s VERY EXTREMELY EASY to put this unit on, take it off and putting it on again.
- Playing 2D materials, both 16:9 and 21:9, the screen appears to be slightly larger than when they’re playing 3D. Why? I don’t know
- Using QTEC FPD blu-ray, it shows no visible colour shift between 0 IRE to 100 IRE test pattern
- There is slight red push but not the point of distraction.
- I played 24p movies, and the display seems to play it properly, there is no OSD shown on the prototype HMZ-T1 so I don’t know whether it’s doing 2:3 pulldown properly or doing 5:5 or 3:3.
- For the demo HMZ-T1, it seems like there is no MotioFlow/CineFlow activated, no video-look at all
- Both static and motion resolution shows approx 700 lines (according to the QTEC FPD blu-ray).
- The black level is amazing although I can still see that it’s not completely black. With brightness control I’m pretty sure that the black level can be brought down a bit more.
- White is very close to calibrated white (warm-ish white) without noticable clipping.
And from questions I’ve been asked around the internet:
- 3D format supported are side-by-side, frame packed, top-and-bottom. So you can watch 3D from blu-ray and cable TV
- There is no flicker at all because you’re looking at 2 images simultaneously. There are two OLED displays inside, one for each eye.
- The picture quality is HD with amazing colour and contrast.
- The image looks like a very large screen viewed from a distance. It is not like having a small screen viewed closely in front of the eyes.
- From a total of 3 hours testing this unit. It doesn’t create eye fatigue at all
- No eyestrain or headache experienced by me at all
- Sound quality is very good but not great.