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Panasonic Drops Sleeker DMP-BD35 & DMP-BD55 Blu-ray Decks

We just saw the DMP-BD50 a few months back, but now at IFA Panasonic has made official two new BD-Live 2.0-compatible players, the BD35 and BD55. The only discernible difference between the two, at the moment, is the BD55 supports analog 7.1 channel audio output. On top of that, they both share a slimmed-down chassis…

Tech News John Mahoney

Panasonic Updates 103-inch Plasma, Drops Price by One Car

The good news: Panasonic announced their newest 103-inch plasma, which will have updated features such as 10000:1 contrast ratio, 4 HDMI ports, Deep Color and x.v.Color support, not to mention a $20,000 price drop. The bad news: it’ll still cost you around $50,000. In addition to the aforementioned features, the most incredible use of the…

Television Mark Wilson

Panasonic’s DMR-BR630V Blu-ray Disc Recorder Does VHS Tapes Too

A Blu-ray disc recorder and a VHS video tape machine may seem unlikely bedfellows, but that hasn’t stopped Panasonic from wrapping them up together in the same box for the DMR-BR630V. The 630V can write BDRs at six times speed, has digital and analog tuners, new second-gen MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 encoder chips as well as all…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Mystery Intel Tablet is Panasonic Toughbook for Medical Types

That mystery tablet PC that appeared at the end of Intel’s presentation at IDF last night is no Classmate, or super-powered Speak&Spell either: It’s a Panasonic Toughbook-alike tablet. More specifically it’s a “Mobile Clinical Assistant” device, aimed at doctors and nurses who are under an increasing burden of digital data and imagery nowadays, though there’s…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Olympus and Panasonic Launch Micro Four Thirds System For Smaller, Rangefinder-Like Digicams

Olympus and Panasonic rolled out a new standard for interoperable lenses and camera bodies today in Japan, which means we could see yet another new camera category smashed in between consumer, pro-sumer, con-fessional, and all the rest. The Micro Four Thirds system is basically a slimmed down version of the two companies’ Four Thirds system,…

Tech News John Mahoney

JD Power Announces the Best Cameras of 2008

JD Power and Associates just released the results of its latest camera survey, culling the responses of over 8,000 digital camera buyers between April of 2007 and March of 2008. They split the categories into DSLRs, Point and Shoots, Premium Point and Shoots, and Ultra Slims. Hit the jump to see the list of winners.…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Sony BDP-S350 and Panasonic DMP-BD50 Blu-ray 2.0 Enabled/Ready Players Reviewed Head-to-Head

Our good friend Gary Merson the HD Guru reviewed Sony’s BDP-S350 and Panasonic’s DMP-BD50, the latest Blu-ray players from each company, Battlemodo style. Both BD players scored high marks on video performance, with a slight edge to Panasonic, but Panasonic’s $600 BD50 smoked Sony’s S350 on pretty much everything else. https://gizmodo.com/bdp-s350-and-s550-sonys-first-full-2-0-spec-blu-ray-pl-360642 Panny’s player can decode…

Reviews Benny Goldman

Panasonic Now Hoping For 40-inch OLED TVs Mass Produced By 2011

Last month the projection was 37 inches. Now a more reputable Japanese paper, Nikkei, is reporting a 40-inch target being mass-produced and ready for retail in the same time frame. As always, Panasonic/Matsushita simply confirms that they’re investing heavily into the tech and goes about their business. [AP] https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-to-have-37-inch-oled-panels-on-sale-by-2011-5019072

Tech News John Mahoney

Buffalo’s 8x Speed Blu-Ray Disc Recorder, World’s Fastest (for Now)

Buffalo’s upcoming internal and external BD recorder units can burn both single or double-layer BDs up to a sizzling 8x speed, and DVD ±R up to 16x. Of course Blu-ray technology is going to improve, probably following a similar pattern to DVD burning tech. But here’s a funny: these drives use Panasonic SW-5584 units inside……

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Panasonic Lumix LX3 High-End Point-and-Shoot Dumps Pixels to Stay Sensitive

Panasonic’s new high-end LX3 point-and-shoot totally bows out of the megapixel war, keeping the same 10-megapixel resolution as its LX2 predecessor for a 40 percent bump in sensitivity and 35 percent greater saturation, plus it can shoot up to 3200 ISO in full res, or 6400 at a reduced one. As a semi-pro point-and-shoot, it…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Panasonic Lumix Camera Summer Sequels: FZ28 18x Zoomer, 14.7-Megapixel FX150 and Ultra-wide Angle FX37

Panasonic has a nice set of digital camera summer sequels to last year’s lineup. Here’s the rundown, with full releases below: •Panasonic’s FZ28 updates its original 18x super-zoomer FZ18 with a higher res, and some new software features, autofocus tracking and more robust face detection, plus it shoots HD video, like every new Panasonic camera.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Panasonic Shows Off Surface-Like Digital Wall

Microsoft’s getting some competition for its Surface device. Panasonic is showing off a very Surface-like product it’s calling Digital Wall, and it’s exactly what it sounds like. While at this point it doesn’t appear to offer all the the features of Surface it could also come in much cheaper that the Microsoft version, and for…

Tech News Matt Hickey

Panasonic’s Pivoting HDMI Cables Flex 180 Degrees For Tricky HDTV Wall Mounts

If you’re wall-mounting your TV in tight quarters and don’t have a free side or downward-facing HDMI input on your set, these Panasonic HDMI cables will probably come in handy, once they’re released this August. No word yet on price; Panasonic’s standard 5ft cables go for around $30 on Amazon (and we all know you…

Television John Mahoney

Wait to Buy! HDTVs About To Get Even Cheaper

Wait on buying your TV. Fresh off a round of price-cuts barely two months old, Mitsubishi, Sharp, Panasonic and Samsung will drop prices on their sets by as much as $400 in the coming weeks. https://gizmodo.com/dealzmodo-ahoy-hdtvs-will-get-stupid-cheap-next-month-385729 With too much inventory and not enough demand, the HDTV makers are cutting prices yet again to clear out…

Gadgets Benny Goldman

Giz Explains: CableCARD and the Future of Cable TV

The big bad cable industry is under assault. The internet is stealing viewers who can check out their favorite shows on Hulu while fiber and IPTV deliver speed and features they can’t quite match. Yet. A new cable internet standard rolling out this year will let them catch up speedwise. To battle the dizzying array…

Television Matt Buchanan

Pioneer Gen 2 Kuro Elite PRO-111FD Plasma Reviewed: New King of TVs, If You Got the Ransom

Last week we saw Panasonic’s latest 50-inch TH-50PZ850U posing a serious challenge to the long-enshrined King of All TVs, the Pioneer Kuro plasma. But now our buddy Gary at HD Guru put the all-new second-gen Kuro 50-incher, the Kuro Elite PRO-111FD, up against the potential throne-usurping Panasonic 850. The verdict? As we predicted, the Kuro…

Tech News John Mahoney

Panasonic Makes Electric Bike With Regenerative Braking

What better alternative to driving to work than riding an electric bicycle? Panasonic’s Vivi RX 10-S, which is due in Japan on August 20, works the same way many hybrid vehicle systems do: taking the energy from braking and harness it into recharging the battery. The total assisted travel range combining pedal power, electric power…

Tech News Jason Chen

What Doesn’t Break a Toughbook Makes It Stronger: How They Test the Hell Out of Them

Deep in the northwest corner of Kobe, Japan, there’s a factory hidden away among green rice paddies, and sleepy farming villages of tiled roofs. If you were to travel here, to Takatsukadai-the middle of nowhere-you’d find Panasonic’s Toughbook plant quietly making notebooks with the world’s lowest failure rate. Well, not so quietly, actually. They employ…

Tech News Tim Hornyak

Panasonic ToughBook CF-U1: Pricing and Specs of the Rugged Little Intel Atom UMPC

Panasonic may have “announced” the ToughBook CF-U1 back in March, but it’s only now getting around talking speeds, feeds and wallet drain. Even though it uses Intel’s “low cost” 1.33GHz Atom Z520 processor, the little ruggedized UMPC will arrive in August (or later, if the rumored Atom delay is true) at a starting price of…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Panasonic to Have 37-Inch OLED Panels on Sale By 2011?

Adding to the rumors we brought you a few months ago, the Sankei Shimbun daily newspaper is reporting that Panasonic is planning on having 37-inch OLED screens on sale within three years. And there’s more: they’ll be setting up a production line in the IPS Alpha Technology factory in Chiba Prefecture, intend to overtake their…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Panasonic Drops Sleeker DMP-BD35 & DMP-BD55 Blu-ray Decks

Panasonic Updates 103-inch Plasma, Drops Price by One Car

Panasonic’s DMR-BR630V Blu-ray Disc Recorder Does VHS Tapes Too

Mystery Intel Tablet is Panasonic Toughbook for Medical Types

Olympus and Panasonic Launch Micro Four Thirds System For Smaller, Rangefinder-Like Digicams

JD Power Announces the Best Cameras of 2008

Sony BDP-S350 and Panasonic DMP-BD50 Blu-ray 2.0 Enabled/Ready Players Reviewed Head-to-Head

Panasonic Now Hoping For 40-inch OLED TVs Mass Produced By 2011

Buffalo’s 8x Speed Blu-Ray Disc Recorder, World’s Fastest (for Now)

Panasonic Lumix LX3 High-End Point-and-Shoot Dumps Pixels to Stay Sensitive

Panasonic Lumix Camera Summer Sequels: FZ28 18x Zoomer, 14.7-Megapixel FX150 and Ultra-wide Angle FX37

Panasonic Shows Off Surface-Like Digital Wall

Panasonic’s Pivoting HDMI Cables Flex 180 Degrees For Tricky HDTV Wall Mounts

Wait to Buy! HDTVs About To Get Even Cheaper

Giz Explains: CableCARD and the Future of Cable TV

Pioneer Gen 2 Kuro Elite PRO-111FD Plasma Reviewed: New King of TVs, If You Got the Ransom

Panasonic Makes Electric Bike With Regenerative Braking

What Doesn’t Break a Toughbook Makes It Stronger: How They Test the Hell Out of Them

Panasonic ToughBook CF-U1: Pricing and Specs of the Rugged Little Intel Atom UMPC

Panasonic to Have 37-Inch OLED Panels on Sale By 2011?

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