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Blu-ray founders proposed cheaper Blu-ray royalties and simplified licensing process

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Feb 25th 2009 No Comments

Back in October Macbook event, Steve Job expressed his view on Blu-ray’s gimmick as a “bag of hunt”, its licensing were too complex and the company hinted to wait on prices to fall further before entering the market. Job was right about the complication; and today, the founders of Blu-ray have revealed plan to unify the Blu-ray standard licensing, which would result in much simplified registering process and lower Blu-ray products cost, by as much as 40 percent less.

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Panasonic DMR-BS850 Blu-ray & Freesat DVR gets priced

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Feb 25th 2009 No Comments

Panasonic have been showing off their combination DVR/Freesat/Blu-ray home cinema system, and it looks like enough to make anyone without access to the free-to-air Freesat satellite service weep with envy. The Panasonic DMR-BS850 brings together a 500GB hard-drive, a Blu-ray recorder and two Freesat tuners, with full HD recording and more.

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Leica UK dismissed talk of Panasonic takeover

By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Feb 17th 2009 No Comments

leica panasonic It has been a long week for Leica fanatics with the talks on Panasonic on the verge to acquire Leica’s photography division. The thought of the German finest optics they’ve been worshiped for decades to fall onto the hands of the Japanese tech behemoth must be unbearable. Whether Leica could use a technology boost from the takeover, or Panasonic to separate themselves from another consumer camera marques, are not happening in near future.

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Panasonic 3D FHD Blu-ray Labs unwraps

By Daniel Lim on Monday, Feb 9th 2009 No Comments

The increasing popular 3D HD Live sports are all over the news these days, we’ve seen the technology gaining positive reviews since its first public debut on BCS College championship game, and now to be featured in the upcoming All star valentine weekend [ check out our family package tickets giveaway, estimated value at $80 !!]. The contents and availability, however, are limited to selected theaters, and frankly not easy to find if you live outside of much popular cities; but similar technology will soon coming to your living home with Panasonic unveiled its 3D Full HD Blu-ray technology labs.

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Portable waterproof Viera Tv gets upgrades

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Feb 5th 2009 No Comments

You would think a mini 5-inch TV with waterproof feature has no use in your neck of wood, it does has its marketing value around the pool, outdoor and suitable for housewives like to spend time watching soup opera in the kitchen or bathtub. Apparently the Panasonic in Japan thought so, they have announced new models with upgrades to its IPX6/7 portable 5-inch Viera displays with better contrast, reception and improve power efficiency.

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Panasonic semi-rugged Toughbook 52 gets Touchscreen option and more

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Feb 4th 2009 No Comments

Last week Panasonic Toughbook division announced upgrades to its full-rugged Toughbook 30 and the convertible tablet 19; today, they’ve brought most of the new features available on its semi-rugged Toughbook 52, and added a new touchscreen option.

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Sensor-based fluorescent lamp reduces power by 60 percent

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Jan 29th 2009 No Comments

We’ve seen Bravia Eco TV with sensor-based practice to adjust LED backlit in real time, the similar trick is now being used in a Panasonic produced home-user fluorescent lamp to exhibit its effectiveness in cutting down your power bill.

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Panasonic ToughBook 19/30’s upgrades now available for US

By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Jan 27th 2009 No Comments

Last week we reported couple of upgraded Toughbook CF19 and CF-30 were spotted at Panasonic, Japanese site. Today, announcement of similar units are made available for US consumers. As reported, both models are now sharing an ultra high luminance 1000 nit LCDs (previously not available for CF-19), and have gotten better anti-glare and anti-reflective treatments, with circular polarization technology incorporated into the screen to improve outdoor usages, and many hardware updates that worth the wait.

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Panasonic DMC-FS25 budget Lumix packs 12MP image sensor

By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Jan 27th 2009 No Comments

If you can’t spare $400 for the much-advanced Lumix touch-screen FX-580 or the AVCHD lite series Lumix , there’s a budget slim factor model down the line with Venus Engine IV powered DMC-FS25. It’s more affordable but not cutting down in functionalities. You’ll get the same 12.1 megapixel image sensor, 5x Leica-brand optical zoom and 3-inch large LCD screen, and in fact, a top-of-the-line FS-Series model, no less.

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Panasonic DMC-FX580 gets Touchscreen treatment

By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Jan 27th 2009 No Comments

Next up on Panasonic rollout is a slim and sleek FX series, touch-screen enabled camera featuring Leica-grade optics, high-speed and high-performance Venus Engine V, DMC-FX-580. The large 3-inch display incorporates a touch panel for user interfaces and controls, together with a host of Panasonic’s latest “Many me” advance features and a 12.1MP image sensor with 25-125mm (35mm equiv.) 5x optical zoom lens.

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