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Panasonic Recently Announces High-Contrast Plasma Display
HT Staff  |  Jul 30, 2000
No projector, no screen, no giant box dominating the room--just a bright, clear picture hanging on the wall. It's the dream of many home theater enthusiasts, and Panasonic is helping to make it come true. The Japanese manufacturer has announced huge advances in contrast ratio––boosting it from a middling 400:1 to a mind-boggling 2000:1--and resulting in, the company says, brighter whites and darker blacks.
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Panasonic Reinvents the Remote
SV Staff  |  Oct 01, 2008
If your house is like mine, you have enough remote controls lying around to fill a 10-gallon trash bin. In fact, if Panasonic's new EZ Touch Remote catches on, that's exactly where your old remotes may wind up. Most remotes are the same - slabs...
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Panasonic Responds to Black Level Report
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 08, 2010
Do the black levels of Panasonic plasmas increase over time? Yes, the company says in response to reports carried on various websites.
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Panasonic Sets Sights on OLED
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 30, 2008
The race to bring new display technology into a home theater near you has heated up with a report that Panasonic plans to start making OLED TVs in three years.
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Panasonic Ships Combo DVD/Hard Disc Recorder
 |  Oct 06, 2002

TV addicts take note: A thousand bucks will buy you plenty of recording time these days—and plenty of versatility.

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Panasonic Starts Streaming Netflix
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 13, 2010
If you own a 2010 Panasonic Viera Cast TV or Blu-ray disc player and subscribe to Netflix, you're in for a pleasant surprise. Your $8.99 and up monthly Netflix subscription entitles you to stream programming from the rental outfit on your TV.
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Panasonic Talks Tech
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jun 16, 2005

This week, Panasonic hit the road to demonstrate their latest products to journalists in San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Angeles, California. Unfortunately, the shipping company they hired to get the gear from San Jose to LA dropped the ball (at least they didn't drop the gear!), failing to deliver the equipment on time, so most of the presentation was theoretical.

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Panasonic to Supply Hitachi Plasma Glass
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 24, 2008
Hitachi has become the latest TV maker to announce that it will buy the glass panels for its plasma sets from Panasonic.
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Panasonic to Tour U.S. with 3D
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 12, 2010
The Panasonic Touch the Future Tour will let members of the public (that's you) in 15 cities get direct experience with the company's version of 3D technology, starting Monday March 15 in New York and finishing next month in Miami. See end of this story for other locales and dates.
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Panasonic Touts 3D on Mall Tour
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 30, 2010
Panasonic's Unwrap 3D Tour will offer interactive 3DTV displays in seven shopping malls across the nation. The two-week tour kicks off Wednesday December 1.
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Panasonic UHD Blu-ray Player Due in September
SV Staff  |  Jul 05, 2016
Panasonic will join Samsung and Philips to become the third company to offer an Ultra HD Blu-ray player in September when it ships the DMP-UB900.
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Panasonic Ultra HD TVs Are Now “Netflix Recommended”
SV Staff  |  Jun 18, 2015
Panasonic’s entire 2015 lineup of 4K UHD Smart TVs will carry the “Netflix Recommended TV designation, the company announced. The logo highlights Internet-enabled TVs that meet specific criteria outlined by Netflix.
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Panasonic Unleashes BDXL
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 25, 2010
Panasonic has released six new combo DVRs and Blu-ray disc recorders, with the latter offering 100 gigabytes per disc, way in excess of conventional Blu-ray's 25GB per layer or 50GB per side. Before you get too excited, note that like BD component recorders in general, these products are for the Japanese market only and are unlikely to come to the U.S. anytime soon.
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Panasonic Unveils 4K TVs, Starting at $800
SV Staff  |  Dec 01, 2015
Panasonic has introduced five 4K Ultra HD TVs just in time for the holidays at prices between $800 and $1,500.

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Panasonic Unveils PT-AE7000U 3D LCD Projector
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jul 28, 2011
Panasonic today introduced its first 3D projector, the PT-AE7000U, to a select group of journalists from around the world at Panasonic Hollywood Labs, the company's R&D facility in Universal City, CA. Representing the tenth generation of the AE series, the AE7000U continues Panasonic's tradition of collaboration with professional cinematographers to tune the projector so it accurately reproduces the color and other picture parameters they intend for their material.
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