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Stop! Why It Still Isn’t Safe to Buy Blu-ray

Click to viewBy now you know waaaaay too much about Toshiba’s format-war surrender, the death of HD DVD at the hands of the larger Blu-ray armada. You may even be eying the Blu-ray players mounted proudly in point-of-sale displays at Best Buy or Wal-Mart. Pricing hasn’t come down to HD DVD player levels—and with those…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman

Panasonic Recycling Process Turns Plastic Into “Harmless” Gas

Panasonic has developed a recycling technique that uses titanium oxide to convert unrecoverable plastic and other organic compounds to a “harmless” gas. The key focus is on separating wires from their coatings and extract the other rubbers and plastics that make up the non-recyclable 20% of home-appliance waste. Panasonic’s stated goal is to “completely eliminate…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Panasonic Updates 103-inch Plasma, Still Charging $70,000 For It

Panasonic’s badass 103-inch Plasma TV might have been shown up at CES by an even more retardedly-gigantic set, but that doesn’t mean that Panny has forgotten its roots. https://gizmodo.com/103-inch-hdtv-xbox-360-nerdgasm-293313 What can we expect from this new 103-inch model? Better wall mount configuration, improved video processing technology, anti-Reflective coating, enhanced wireless presentation capabilities, more versatile media…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Panasonic AG-HMC150 Shoots on SDHC

After nearly six years, Panasonic is finally releasing a true HD successor to the popular but aging AG-DVX100. The $6000 AG-HMC150 shares triple CCDs, optical image stabilization, and audio capability with the DVX100, but adds a variety of HD formats including 1080/60i, 1080/30p, and 1080/24p. Panasonic has confirmed a basic 13Mbps recording mode but hasn’t…

Tech News Eric Sheline

Panasonic 32GB SDHC Card Fastest Yet

Panasonic’s 32GB SDHC isn’t the first one, but at class 6 (meaning it writes at least 6MB/s) it’s the fastest 32GB card yet. [Market Wire] https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-a-32gb-sd-card-would-look-like-if-scaled-t-292055

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sony #1 in LCD; Biggest Names Hold Fast, But Cheap-o Brands Taking Out Weaker Competition

Last quarter was an all-out TV-maker battle, and you my friends were the territory. DisplaySearch’s results for Q4 ’07 declared the victor in the US LCD category to be Sony for the very first time. Panasonic handily crushed all comers in the smaller US plasma race. Samsung, with strong #2 finishes in both, ended up…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman

Panasonic Booth Acrobats Bounce Around Like Wannabe Ninjas

We know most of you guys would prefer hot booth babes filling up our megapixels, but Panasonic’s above all of that sexyist mess. Instead, they gave us some freerunners hopped up on caffeine, rainbows and Abercrombie cologne running and rebounding like ADD children. Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Hands On Panasonic Lumix TZ5 10X Zoomer and HD Camcorder

First off, you can zoom while recording movies in 720p. It’s a nice, slow ‘n’ steady zoom too, not a jerky or overly fast one, keeping things smooth while you shoot. The LCD is big and bright enough for HD videorecording on this kind of level, though it’s not astounding or anything. It’s sorta hard…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Panasonic Lumix TZ5 Is 10X Zoom Camera and HD Camcorder Rolled Into One

Panasonic, obviously eager to combine its skills in HD video and still photography, has built what might be a camcorder-killer: the $350 Lumix TZ5 9.1-megapixel camera with 10X optical zoom lens and 720p high-definition video recording. There are some features we’ve seen before from Pana: an optical image stabilizer, motion-sensitive ISO control and smart detection…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Panasonic DMC-FX35, DMC-FS20, DMC-FS5, DMC-FS3: Midrange, Wide-ish Angles, Some 720p Capture

The FX and the mildly stylish FS series are Panasonic’s midrange Lumix cameras. We’ll start with the best: The FX35 is billed as being Panasonic’s first ultrawide-angle camera with a 25mm focal length at its broadest for squeezing “twice as many friends into a single shot.” The 10.1MP, 4x Leica zoom camera also does 720p…

Tech News Brian Lam

Panasonic Lumix LZ-8 and LZ-10 Budget Cams

Panasonic’s latest pair of Lumix LZ budget point-and-shoots dutifully follow Canon and Nikon’s handful of entry-level cams on the feature front. The 10-megapixel LZ-10 matches up neatly with Nikon’s P60 (though it bests it on MP count), while the cheaper LZ-8 (guess how many megapixels?) goes toe-to-toe with Canon’s A590. https://gizmodo.com/pick-yer-low-frill-nikon-coolpix-cam-130-l18-or-230-349916 Both Lumixes have 5x…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Panasonic Scoops Themselves on PMA Digital Camera Lineup

Panasonic is apparently testing the “effectiveness” of RSS in the press room. Turns out, it’s very effective, since they’ve scooped themselves on their PMA lineup! All of the links go to blank pages for now, but at least we know what’s coming: New FS-series, FX-35 (their first w/ a 25mm wide-angle lens), budget LZ line…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

The Weight Is Over: Extra-Thin TVs Hit the Scales

This year’s CES TV competition wasn’t about how big TVs could be, but how thin they could get. Samsung, JVC, Hitachi, Panasonic, Sharp, Pioneer and developer LG.Philips were all showing off their rendition of belt-tightening in the flat-panel age. Some of you perceptively noted that up against a wall, inside a cabinet or on a…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman

Hands On with the SDR-SW20: Panasonic’s First Underwater Camcorder

Camcorder Info has their hands on of the SDR-SW20 up, Panasonic’s first attempt at a dive camcorder for those who like recording video in the ocean…as long as that ocean is less than 5 feet deep. (Like its direct competitor, the Sanyo Xacti E1, it is only waterproof to 5 feet.) They found visual quality…

Tech News Brian Lam

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LS80 Wins “Best 8MP Camera This Weekend” Award

Our Panasonic pals just dropped a new compact digital camera into their Lumix range. The new device, bearing the DMC-LS80 moniker, will boast an 8.32MP CCD sensor, 3x optical zoom, 4x digital zoom, 2.5-inch intelligent LCD, MEGA O.I.S image stabilization, ISO 1600 (maximum at full resolution), 30fps 4:3 (640×480) and 16:9 (848×489) video capture, as…

Tech News Haroon Malik

Panasonic’s Evoltas Earn Guinness Record For Battery Life

It looks like the folks at the Guinness Book of World Records took some time away from determining how many frat boys can fit into a Volkswagen to bestow the title of “world’s longest-lasting AA alkaline battery cell” onto Panasonic’s new EVOLTA. According to their findings, EVOLTAs have a 10-year shelf-life—which is nearly double the…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Matsushita Becoming Just Panasonic on Oct. 1

Most of us are more familiar with the name “Panasonic” than Matsushita—Panasonic being Japanese electronics giant Matsushita’s international brand name. Well, as of Oct. 1, Matsushita is changing its name to Panasonic. [TG Daily]

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Justify Your Product: Panasonic 150-inch Plasma

Panasonic’s 150-inch plasma is crazy huge, but it’s also crazy expensive, with price estimates around $1,000 per inch. So can Panasonic justify building the thing?

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Attempted Wanton Destruction of a Panasonic Plasma Screen

Back in Panasonic’s secret demo room at CES 2008, they’re showing off a stress test where they slam a metal ball into a plasma with one joule of energy, and see if the screen will smash up. (Guess what? They’ve also run the test on LCDs.) Videography by Curtis Walker

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Overheard at CES: How You Ship a 150-Inch Plasma

“If we get bigger than 150, we might have to go with Airbus.” Heard in: Panasonic booth…an exec saying how they could only fit one of its prototype 150-inch plasmas in a Boeing 747 cargo hold—and only just barely. https://gizmodo.com/holy-crap-first-150-inch-plasma-photos-341633

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Stop! Why It Still Isn’t Safe to Buy Blu-ray

Panasonic Recycling Process Turns Plastic Into “Harmless” Gas

Panasonic Updates 103-inch Plasma, Still Charging $70,000 For It

Panasonic AG-HMC150 Shoots on SDHC

Panasonic 32GB SDHC Card Fastest Yet

Sony #1 in LCD; Biggest Names Hold Fast, But Cheap-o Brands Taking Out Weaker Competition

Panasonic Booth Acrobats Bounce Around Like Wannabe Ninjas

Hands On Panasonic Lumix TZ5 10X Zoomer and HD Camcorder

Panasonic Lumix TZ5 Is 10X Zoom Camera and HD Camcorder Rolled Into One

Panasonic DMC-FX35, DMC-FS20, DMC-FS5, DMC-FS3: Midrange, Wide-ish Angles, Some 720p Capture

Panasonic Lumix LZ-8 and LZ-10 Budget Cams

Panasonic Scoops Themselves on PMA Digital Camera Lineup

The Weight Is Over: Extra-Thin TVs Hit the Scales

Hands On with the SDR-SW20: Panasonic’s First Underwater Camcorder

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LS80 Wins “Best 8MP Camera This Weekend” Award

Panasonic’s Evoltas Earn Guinness Record For Battery Life

Matsushita Becoming Just Panasonic on Oct. 1

Justify Your Product: Panasonic 150-inch Plasma

Attempted Wanton Destruction of a Panasonic Plasma Screen

Overheard at CES: How You Ship a 150-Inch Plasma

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