When it comes to TVs -- often the flashiest, most buzzed-about gadgets at the International Consumer Electronics Show -- it takes several years for reality to catch up to the hype.
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One of the biggest obstacles to 3-D adoption in the home is the requirement for uncomfortable, eye-straining glasses.
Louis Rousseau shot his family Christmas in three dimensions -- his relatives jutting out of the digital videos when viewed on a special TV with special glasses.
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The tech-industry hype last year was that TV sets were becoming thinner than ever -- with some particularly anorexic models getting down to just millimeters in width.
The Justice Department said Thursday that Panasonic and Embraco, a Whirlpool subsidiary, are being fined more than $140 million for price fixing refrigerator parts.
Assuming that consumers someday will be really rich, a recent tech conference in Atlanta, Georgia, presented an interesting vision of what our living rooms might look like in the future.
The imagined inventions of Victorian-era French novelist Albert Robida may be coming closer to reality.
The good news about the 3D TVs coming out this spring and summer is that they'll come packed with two pairs of 3D lenses. The bad news? Those plastic glasses work only with the brand of TV with which they're shipped.
Three-dimensional images are expected jump out of movie theaters and into living rooms by next year.
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HDTV is so last year -- at least that's what TV makers hope you'll say. CNN's Reggie Aqui checks out 3DTV.
Three-dimensional images are expected jump out of movie theaters and into living rooms by next year.
Panasonic, one of the world's largest makers of electronic devices, announced it lost nearly $4 billion in the fiscal year ending March 31.
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Japanese stocks ended six days of gains Tuesday. CNN's Eunice Yoon reports.
If you have shopped for a television recently, you know that screens have gotten incredibly thin, even as they continue to get bigger and offer better resolution.
Compact-camera manufacturers have begun testing the waters with a wealth of high-end features as they search for new ways to gain revenue, market share, and recognition.
Panasonic Corp., hard hit by the global recession, will cut 15,000 jobs by March 2010, the company announced Wednesday.
Panasonic, hard hit by the global recession, will cut 15,000 jobs by March 2010, the company announced Wednesday.
The world's stock markets moved into positive territory Wednesday despite an International Monetary Fund report which said the global economy was heading for its worst year since World War II.
Three-dimensional TV is coming to a living room near you. But will the technology spur a consumer spending spree like digital and high-definition TV did before it? Or will 3D end up being the next big flop?
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Every so often a camera comes along that gets (and deserves) high marks, but which I don't necessarily like as much as the rating would suggest. The latest object of such ambivalence is the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1.
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At CNET when we review one size DTV in the same series we often don't review another, but we're making an exception in the case of the LG 60PG60.
Coming from a company known more for its plasma HDTVs, the Panasonic TC-32LX85 is a pleasant surprise in the 32-inch LCD category.
Plasma HDTVs seem almost passe these days, but in our experience they still produce generally better images than LCDs. The mid-price 50-inch Samsung PN50A550 reviewed here provides a typical example of what plasma can do right.
With its eye-catching, compact body and relatively low price, the Panasonic HDC-SD9 seems to be quite an attractive buy for a flash-based AVCHD camcorder.
It's no exaggeration to say that a large chunk of my early winter was wasted trying to buy a wide-screen TV. After finishing my basement with the explicit goal of turning an empty concrete space into a Wii-playing, movie-watching, comfy-couch-laden rec room, I knew that the TV had to be really big and really flat, with good but not top-of-the-line picture and features. Easy enough.
No fewer than six of my friends and family received digital photo frames for Christmas last month. For the record, no, I was not the one to give them.
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says he remembers walking around the Consumer Electronics Show five years ago with Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt. He recalls seeing a big presence from his rivals in the satellite-television business. His own industry, by contrast, was nowhere to be found.
Hard-drive camcorders have been slower to catch on than I would've thought. Sure, they cost a bit more than their DVD- or tape-based equivalents, but the convenience of having such a large storage capacity -- and not having to deal with tape -- make them appealing.
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Still trapped in analysis paralysis? We pinned down several experts and asked them to recommend rock-solid TVs to suit a range of budgets.
The world biggest television went on sale in London this week. Made by Panasonic and costing a wallet-busting £50,000 ($98,460), the plasma screen set is 103 inches (8.7feet) wide and weighs in at a whopping 220 kilograms. This latest piece of high-tech home entertainment kit may be out-of-reach for most of us, but there are still plenty of other alternatives on the market to tempt the modern television-buying consumer.
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Each May new camcorders appear on the shelves of electronics stores everywhere.
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