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The 3D Blu-ray release of Avatar will launch with help from Panasonic (and vice versa). Only consumers who buy a Panasonic 3D plasma will get their hands on the desirable title, at least for a while.

Panasonic is strutting its 2011 lineup in 15 cities starting this week. On display during the Experience Amazing Tour will be Viera 3DTVs, apps, Blu-ray players, HTiBs, Lumix cameras, and camcorders.

The tour began this week at New York's Grand Central Terminal and will finish up in Miami on May 15. Stops in between will include Long Island, Chicago, LA, Boston, Detroit, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, San Francisco, DC, Dallas, Seattle, Atlanta, and Houston. See schedule.

Panasonic's really getting behind the 3D craze. The company has just opened its first 3D Blu-ray Disc authoring facility. The Blu-ray 3D Advanced Authoring Center is the newest addition to the Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory, and contains the...

If you can afford a 103-inch plasma display, I guess you can afford to turn it into a gaming table. Using an overlay designed by U-Touch, the display has multi-touch capability, so you can make it a virtual hockey table.What other applications...

Panasonic thinks - and rightly so - that a lot of consumers haven't got a clue as to what HDTV really is or how to get real HDTV content. The company also says they expect almost three million of these clueless people (some of them probably understand what's going on, but a lot more of them don't) will purchase plasma TVs this year. For those smart enough to buy a Panasonic plasma HDTV, the manufacturer will offer the Panasonic Plasma Concierge program.

Panasonic has announced official pricing and availability for its new 3D plasma HDTVs, and they're much less expensive than first reported. The previously-announced 54-inch TC-P54VT25, priced at the equivalent of $6,000 in Japan, will go on...