XPan, Panny team for new 3D Standard

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Reported today in TWICE magazine:

XpanD 3D began licensing today a new active-shutter 3D standard developed with Panasonic, called M-3DI, that is intended to bring about compatibility among 3DTVs, computers, home projectors and cinema projection.

XpanD chief strategy officer Ami Dror told TWICE the first licensor of the M-3DI standard is founding partner Panasonic, soon to be joined by other founding partners including Changhong, Funai, Hisense, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Philips, Sanyo, Seiko Epson, Sim2 and Viewsonic.

"The idea is to allow you as a user to buy a pair of glasses for a Philips TV, for example, and take them to an XpanD cinema, or use them to watch 3D on a friend's Panasonic TV, etc." said Dror.

More at the link:
http://www.twice.com/article/465862-...D_Standard.php

The question in my mind (not that I really care about 3D anyway) is whether current Panny 3D sets and glasses can be updated via software to use this new standard.