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Archive for the ‘Panasonic’ Category

March 8th, 2008

Pioneer Stops Plasma Production, Focuses on LCD

In a sad turn of events this past week, Pioneer has stopped production of it’s legendary plasma panels. This means that if they do produce any other plasma panels (not likely), they will not be actual Pioneer panels. For those concerned about their Kuro line, don’t fret; it’ll still be here.
Pioneer is currently in discussions […]

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December 28th, 2007

Panasonic Blu-Ray Drive Now Only 9.5mm Thin

Panasonic announced their latest “breakthrough” today; their Blu-Ray drives for PCs are now down to 9.5mm. They were previously at 12.7mm which made the selection of laptops capable of the drives very small and were mainly featured in thicker laptops. Blu-Ray discs can be written to at speeds up to 2x, in addition to DVD […]

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October 31st, 2007

Panasonic DMP-BD30 Reviewed (Already!)

While Panasonic just announced this beast yesterday via press release, CNET has already reviewed it minus one big feature: Profile 1.1. They liked that the front in no longer one large panel all the way across (blocking access to the drive), the LED display, and the new remote over it’s older brother, the BD10. They […]

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October 26th, 2007

Panasonic Blu-Ray Player for… Your Car?

Panasonic has released an, odd product to say the least. You can now watch your favorite Blu-Ray movies while in the car. Well, watch while you aren’t driving your car of course. EngadgetHD (and I as well) really don’t know what to make of this. The drive is a single DIN unit with an HDMI […]

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