Gurgaon, December 15, 2010: Panasonic Corporation, the global leader in innovation and technology today announced the launch of world’s largest 152-inch 3D Full High definition Plasma Display for the first time in India. Unveiled by Panasonic Eco Ideas brand ambassador, Dia Mirza with Mr. Ikuo Miyamoto, Managing Executive Officer, Corporate Management Division for Asia and Oceania - Panasonic Corporation & Managing Director, Panasonic Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. at the Experience Panasonic exhibition, the launch marks yet another first-of-its kind product from Panasonic for their Indian customers. Mr. Daizo Ito, President, Panasonic India and Mr. Manish Sharma, Director – Marketing, Panasonic India were also present at the event.
Experience Panasonic also showcased state-of-the art energy saving products which included home energy management solutions to residential storage batteries and renewable energy products such as solar generators. The exhibition is a part of a concerted attempt to elaborate on Panasonic’s theory of coexisting with the natural world.
The exhibition also provided a platform to the customers to experience the exhilarating full HD Plasma Display and featured a range home appliances manufactured using inverter technology- a technology incorporated in the motors of the home appliances to reduce energy consumption. Various products including the Viera range which has been designed to reduce power consumption were also on display.
Speaking at the inauguration of the exhibition, Mr. Ikuo Miyamoto, Managing Executive Officer, Corporate Management Division for Asia and Oceania - Panasonic Corporation & Managing Director, Panasonic Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. said “As part of Panasonic philosophy to coexist with the natural resources, we not only continue to bring energy efficient products to our customers enabled by the cutting edge technologies but are also committed to creating an environment to encourage our customers to do their bit towards a healthier tomorrow. The Experience Panasonic exhibition is another step forward towards this vision.”
Added Mr. Daizo Ito, President, Panasonic India. ““The exhibition is a part of Panasonic’s commitment to contribute to a healthier tomorrow by creating awareness among customers for energy saving and energy solutions besides displaying our latest products. It also provides an opportunity to connect with our customers and transfer brand experiences for unique & innovative products, such as the latest launch of 152 -inch 3D full HD plasma display.”
The exhibition was spread over various zones. Each zone was crafted to carefully elaborate on salient features of Panasonic’s cutting edge products.
The Eco zone: This zone displayed home appliances operating on Inverter technology; air conditioners, washing machines and refrigerators to enable a better appreciation of the technology & its benefits to customers. Other energy conserving products included solar power generators and residential storage battery. Viera range Plasma and LCD TVs were also on display in the Eco zone.
3D Home Theatre Zone: This zone was dedicated to 15 minutes of pure entertainment featuring 3D animation movies.
FHD 3D Theatre Zone: 152-inch full high definition 3D plasma display was introduced in this zone. A 7 minute clip was played to enable customers to experience the fun and joy of watching lifelike images.
Panasonic’s Eco Ideas Ambassador, Dia Mirza said “I am extremely happy to be associated with a brand which actively participates in contributing towards a healthy environment. Sensitizing masses towards the environment has always been Panasonics’ commitment and I am glad to participate in it by making my own individual contribution. ”
“From 152-inch LCD to 19-inch full-HD 3D plasma display, Panasonic now offers its customers the widest range to choose from. The exhibition will enable customer to experience products and understand technologies that can help them to live more comfortable & healthy life. It also provides an opportunity to experience our innovative products such as 152-inch 3D full HD plasma display, which is not just the world’s largest but also the first of its kind to be launched in India. The launch is part of our commitment to bring the very best to our Indian customers, be it in terms of technology, customer benefits and product innovation & styling.” said Manish Sharma, Director- Marketing, Panasonic India.
About Panasonic Corporation
Panasonic internationally is a household name in technology innovation and has continually set standards in the electronics industry. Panasonic follows the principle that the main purpose of production is to manufacture in abundant quantity appliances of good quality for everyday use, thereby enhancing and improving the quality of life for everyone. Panasonic Corporation is headquartered in Osaka, Japan, and registered revenues of USD 79 billion in the last financial year. The company ranks 65th in the Fortune 500 list of the largest global corporations and is ranked 4th in Fortune 500 index for ‘Electronics and Electrical Equipments’ and ranked as a ‘World Super 50’ by Forbes. Its operations span 9 countries, with a workforce of about 385,000 spread over 75 companies. With 297 manufacturing facilities across the world, Panasonic is one of the largest electronic product manufacturers.
About Panasonic India
Panasonic makes available in India its wide range of consumer electronics and home appliances like LCD & Plasma TVs, DVD players, home theatre systems, cameras, camcorders, car audio systems, air conditioners, washing machines, refrigerators, microwave ovens, automatic cookers, vacuum cleaners and the like. The Company has a workforce of about 11,000 in India and has registered sales of Rs 2,200 crore in FY 2009, and estimated to do a turnover of Rs 3,200 crore in FY 2010. For more information on the company and the Panasonic brand in India, please visit http://panasonic.co.in.
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The Panasonic Scholarship Program was established in 1998 in commemoration of the company’s 80th anniversary as a way for the company to express its appreciation to society. Its aim is to provide scholarship opportunities to privately financed students from Asian countries who wish to pursue a master’s course in Japan, to offer financial assistance to foster highly educated experts who can contribute to the development of their countries in the 21st century, and to promote mutual friendship between the home countries and Japan.
Panasonic will be felicitating the Indian students for the third consecutive year. In the first year of its inception, in 2009, the scholarship program sponsored one engineering student in 2009 and two students in the year 2010 to pursue their Masters Course studies in Japan
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Kazuhiro Kawano, President of Panasonic Scholarship Co. Ltd, said, “It gives me immense pleasure to interact with the upcoming talent of the country and experience the zest that drives them towards achievement. The scholarship is our effort to express our appreciation to the society and contribute in a sustained manner.”
Congratulating the selected students Mr. Hidenori Asou, Managing Director, Panasonic India Pvt. Ltd said, “Panasonic has taken a step to partner societies across Asian countries to provide an opportunity to the privileged students to advance their talent and skill sets by providing them anopportunity to pursue higher studies in Japan. We believe that talent is our country’s future and would play a vital role in the growth of economy and in the development of society. We had a motivating response from the students this year. We are confident of promoting the best talent of this year to go to best universities of Japan for further studies.”
Panasonic India Pvt. Ltd has shortlisted the candidates with the help of an exhaustive selection process from IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi, University of Pune, NIT Warangal, PEC University of Technology. There were over 60 applicants who participated in the program. The students were selected on the basis of their academic results GPA, GMAT, TOEFL and extracurricular performance. The short-listed candidates were interviewed by experts from Panasonic India Pvt. Ltd., Panasonic Scholarship Co., Professor from IIT Delhi and First secretary, Embassy of Japan Application forms are accepted and selected by the overseas offices of Panasonic Scholarship under the initiatives at the 8 applicable countries /region: China, Indonesia, Malaysia,
Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and India. The students selected for the scholarship programme will be entitled for a scholarship package from April 2011. As part of the program, Panasonic shall support with 150,000 yen per month and tuition fee for the first year and for the subsequent two years, it will increase to 180,000 yen per month besides the tuition fee.
About Panasonic India
Panasonic internationally is a household name in technology innovation and has continually set standards in the electronics industry. Panasonic follows the principle that the main purpose of production is to manufacture in abundant quantity appliances of good quality for everyday use, thereby enhancing and improving the quality of life for everyone. Panasonic Corporation is headquartered in Osaka, Japan, and registered revenues of USD 79 billion in the last financial year. With 297 manufacturing facilities across the world, Panasonic is one of the largest electronic product manufacturers. Panasonic makes available in India its wide range of consumer electronics and home appliances like LCD & Plasma TVs, DVD players, home theater systems, cameras, camcorders, car audio systems, air conditioners, washing machines, microwave ovens, automatic cookers, vacuum cleaners and the like. For more information on the company and the Panasonic brand in India, please visit http://panasonic.co.in.
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Panasonic has unveiled the world's first portable Blu-ray disc player, DMP-B15, which is designed to provide High Definition Blu-ray experience on the go.It features a 8.9-inch WSVGA LCD screen, BD Live functionality and unique VIERA CAST Internet accessibility. The VIERA CAST allows users to select entertainment sites including Amazon Video-on-Demand, a streaming video service that provides access to more than 40,000 titles; YouTube; Google Picasa Web Album; Bloomberg and weather channel.
The DMP-B15 is designed with great ease of use and is equipped with a 3-hour rechargeable battery that would last. You can also treat it like a standalone Blu-ray player and connect it directly to your HDTV witha HDMI cable. And like all Panasonic Blu-ray players, the DMP-B15 features an SD memory card slot for users to view and share digital photos and HD videos.
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Engineers at Panasonic have succeeded in reducing the size of a prototype methanol fuel cell so that it's no larger than a laptop battery pack but provides all-day power.The fuel cell, which the Japanese company has been developing for the last eight years, was first shown at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2006. At that time it was about double the size of a laptop battery, but the latest version, due to be unveiled later this week at an event in Japan, is half the size, Panasonic said Monday.
The new version has a volume of 270 cubic centimeters and can deliver an average power of 10 watts with a peak output of 20 watts, Panasonic said. It weighs 320 grams.
On a 200cc charge of methanol it should be able to deliver power for 20 hours -- considerably longer than the Lithium Ion batteries used in laptop PCs today -- and when the methanol gets low all that's required is a quick refill and it's back to full capacity. This fast recharge is seen as one of the key advantages of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs). They are also viewed as more environmentally friendly than Lithium Ion batteries because the only by-product is a little water and carbon dioxide.
Additionally Panasonic has also developed a stand-alone DMFC charger that has a couple of USB power outlets and can be used to recharge dead gadgets such as iPods and cell phones when away from a power socket. The recharger is slightly larger at 360cc and weighs 350 grams.Both will get their first public showing at the Hydrogen Energy Advanced Technology Exhibition 2008 that is due to open Wednesday in the western Japanese city of Fukuoka.
Neither is likely to go on sale soon. Panasonic doesn't have any firm plans for commercialization but said it hopes to have them on the market by the end of 2012.
A handful of big-name consumer electronics companies have been developing DMFCs for the last several years, but are yet to bring the products to market. For the last few years most companies have vaguely stated "next year" as a commercialization date but it's an answer that's given no matter when asked.
That might be about to change. Toshiba recently made the clearest promise yet to DMFC commercialization: sometime during its current financial year, which ends in March 2009. At the recent Ceatec show in Japan the company demonstrated a working cell phone that included a DMFC, but Toshiba isn't letting on yet if this will be its first product.
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Panasonic has introduced two new Blu-ray players – the DMP-BD35 and DMP-BD55.The players claim to feature technology that reproduces movies with colors 'faithful' to the original. The PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus video processor, (included in the player's circuitry) was developed after more than 15 years of collaboration between Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory and professional cinema studios in Hollywood.Both models feature an HD Audio Decoder (Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus and DTSTM-HD Master Audio Essential), which support the 7.1-channel surround sound newly adopted in Blu-ray Discs.
The Panasonic BD55 has a 192kHz, 24bit, audio digital-analog converter plus high quality components, as quoted in their release. The DMP-BD55 can also output analog signals for 7.1-channel sound.
Another cool USP is the slim design, which is due to something called the UniPhier chip. UniPhier is a Panasonic-created system LSI developed by applying 45-nanometer processing to a consumer product – a world’s first. This single-chip integration technology also contributes greatly to the BD35’s slim height of 49mm.
Both the BD35 and BD55 feature BD-Live compatibility which enables users to connect to the Internet to download images, subtitles and other data, and take part in interactive activities and multi-player games linked to bonus cinema content found on Blu-ray Discs.
There's no information on the pricing yet.
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of functionalities which expand the convenience and fun while taking pictures.The Panasonic FX150 sports a 14.7-megapixel shooter and some of its features are 28mm wide-angle lens, Venus Engine IV allowing 330 pictures (CIPA) per battery charge, a 2.7-inch large LCD, easy manual control and adjustable shutter speed. The iA (intelligent auto) mode further enhances the capabilities of this camera. It equips an AF Tracking function which automatically tracks the subject and captures sharp and clear images even if the subject moves. It also has an automatic backlight compensation function and Intelligent Exposure function which helps capture natural looking images.The FX150 camera provides 24 scene modes, slideshows with music and 50 MB of internal memory. The FX150 gives you the power and freedom to create artistically expressive images by recording original pictures data in RAW file format allowing you to add intended effects to it.
It offers a bracketing function which allows exposure bracketing on previous models and the new color bracketing function lets you record color, monochromatic and sepia shots of an image by simply pressing the shutter button. You can create an artistic effect of your images by superimposing up to three images by using its new multi-exposure function.
The Panasonic FX150 camera comes with accessories like battery charger, battery pack, battery carrying case, AV Cable, USB connection cable, AC cable, strap and CD-ROM. No word on pricing and availability.
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Powered by Intel's new Atom processor, the CF-U1 integrates the robust features of a full-size Toughbook in an ultra-mobile form
factor. About 7-inches wide, 6-inches deep, and 2-inches high, the UMPC is fitted with a 5.6-inches touch-screen viewable even in sunlight, QWERTY keyboard, 16GB solid state removable drive, 1GB memory, 2 mega pixels camera, and fingerprint scanner (optional). The Toughbook CF-U1 also comes with WiFi, Bluetooth, and 3G-mobile-Broadband internet connectivity."Panasonic has built the new Toughbook CF-U1 but our customers have designed it," said Kyp Walls, director (Product Management) at Panasonic Computer Solutions. "The form and functionality is a direct result of more than two years of feedback solicited from an array of government and commercial organizations seeking to address the needs of abroad range of mobile users," Walls said.
According to Panasonic, the rugged UMPC is built to thrive in environments as diverse as construction sites, mining operations, oil and gas refineries, manufacturing facilities, railroad yards, city streets, and storage warehouses.
The CF-U1, unlike other handhelds, operates on full-function Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems. It has a fan-less, all-weather design that results in reduced noise and weight, and eliminates points of failure, says Panasonic. The CF-U1 is claimed to offer around 9 hours battery life and comes with several docking options.
The new UMPC from Panasonic will be available worldwide in August this year for an estimated $2,499 from authorized Panasonic resellers and distributors.
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One of the key elements that can "make or break" a presentation are the tools used for delivering the information, which, in most cases, are represented by projectors. And since we're living in an ultra-mobile, wireless world, the people over at Panasonic have decided to launch a couple of projectors (the LB80 series) that will make life a lot easier for their users, since they can be carried around quite easily and accessed wirelessly from up to 128 computers.The highly portable LB80 series projectors, which include the PT-LB80NTU, PT-LB80U, PT-LB75NTU, PT-LB75U projectors and their widescreen counterpart, the PT-LW80NTU, feature a special, compact and dust-resistant design to reduce maintenance costs and increase mobility. The PT-LB80NTU, PT-LB75NTU and PT-LW80NTU also feature built-in wireless capability, which means that users connected to a wireless network will be able to access these devices in a very fast and easy manner.
The quality of the displayed images is, as expected, the main selling point these devices have to over, and it's quite interesting to note that Panasonic's new projectors fare pretty well in this particular area. Thus, while the PT-LB80NTU and PT-LB75NTU projectors generate images at 1,024 x 768 resolution and a 4:3 aspect ratio, thenew PT-LW80NTU comes equipped with wide-aspect (16:10 aspect ratio) LCD panels for reproduction of WXGA (1,280 x 800) images from a computer, which makes it a very good solution for those users who need a projector that can display wide-screen images from a DVD video source or wide-aspect computers.
Furthermore, the PT-LB80NTU and PT-LB80U generate 3,200 lumens of brightness each, while the PT-LB75NTU, the PT-LB75U and the PT-LW80NTU models provide 2,600 lumens. All of the new projectors pack other attractive features as well, as for example quiet operation, 3-second speed start, direct power off, built-in closed-caption decoder, an array of in/out A/V connection terminals, anti-theft features, an easy-to-use remote control and much more.
"We understand that to create a next-generation portable projector, the design has to be compact, full-featured and cost-effective", said Thomas Zitelli, president of Panasonic Projector Systems Company, when talking about the company's latest announcement. "With the Panasonic LB80 series, mobile presenters benefit from advanced PC and Mac-compatible technologies coupled with a mobile, cost-saving design that delivers nothing but remarkable picture quality."
And Mr. Zitelli is actually rather right, since these projectors are available in a pretty "friendly" price range, from around 3,500 US dollars (the PT-LW80NTU) down to around $2,000 (the PT-LB75U), which will probably make them quite attractive for an enhanced category of consumers.
Source: Softpedia.com
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Panasonic announced the waterproof SDR-SW20 camcorder at the CES 2008. Amazon.com is taking pre-orders for this robust camcorder for $399.99. The shipping date is February 29th (yes, there is a 29th this year).The new Panasonic SDR-SW20 combines a rugged, compact body with waterproofing that allows use in water, including seawater, to a depth of 5 feet, shock-proofing that protects against drops from up to 4 feet, and a dust-proofing design that shuts out airborne dust particles that can lead to malfunction. Other features of the Panasonic SDR-SW20 include 10x Optical Zoom, 2.7 inch screen, SD memory card support up to 16GB SDHC, 0.6-Sec Quick Start and World timer.
More details on Amazon.com.
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Panasonic has announced their development of the world's thinnest internal Blu-ray drive. At just 9.5 mm tall, it's thin enough for laptops but still packs a performance punch. We're talking 2X recording for both BD-R and BD-RE (rewritable) discs, along with BD-R DL support (but we're guessing that the dual layer writing is just 1X...have fun burning those 50GB discs). The drive also supports DVDs with 8x burning on all types of discs. It's priceless for now with Panasonic only shipping units to manufacturers at the moment, but we'll get more details soon when it's on display at CES. And here is the rest of it.
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