Do you have 3D fever? Have you already purchased a 3D HDTV and Blu-ray player? Well, electronics manufacturers also want to sell you a 3D home theater system to complete the experience. Panasonic’s wrinkle with its new SC-ZT2 is that it wirelessly delivers Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD 7.1-channel surround sound through just a pair of speakers.
Panasonic packs each 80-watt speaker with four one-inch tweeters and a five-inch woofer, but doesn’t include a separate subwoofer as many competing units do. The wireless receiver can accept “upstream” audio via a single HDMI port rather than an optical connection.
What makes this setup any more 3D than any other surround-sound system? You need to have support for HDMI 1.4a in order to handle 3D broadcast formats, but surround sound by its very nature attempts to be three dimensional. The SC-ZT2 does look slick, and the lack of cables needed is a plus, though Panasonic adds an extra dimension to the price tag: $999.95.
