| Panasonic Adds Six New LUMIX Cameras | | Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:49:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | Today Panasonic unveiled six new compact models in its LUMIX digital camera family. The new additions include the DMC-FX30, the world's slimmest camera with a 28 mm wide-angle zoom lens, and the TZ3, the world's smallest camera with a 10x optical zoom lens. The innovative new models from the maker who revolutionized digital photography by introducing MEGA O.I.S. to compact cameras will meet a variety of consumer needs. The 7.2-megapixel FX30 features a new 28 mm wide-angle, 3.6x optical zoom (equivalent to 28-100 mm on a 35 mm film camera) Leica DC VARIO-ELMARIT lens. Panasonic collaborated with Leica to create this compact lens to achieve the 22.0 mm body profile, the world's slimmest for a camera with a 28 mm wide-angle zoom lens.... | |
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| | | Panasonic Announces Multi-million Dollar Agreement With Panavision ... | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 12:48:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | Disclaimer: InfoComm International has republished this press release with the original grammar and spelling intact. InfoComm International reserves the right to modify the release for language or claims that may be offensive to competing companies. Sources may contact news@infocomm.org regarding editing decisions. SOURCE: Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems Co. POSTED: 01/05/07 Panavision and Deluxe Entertainment to buy over $2 Million in Panasonic industry-leading HD products for worldwide facilities SECAUCUS, N.J. -- Panasonic, a leading supplier of broadcast and professional video products and systems, has announced an agreement with Panavision and Deluxe Entertainment Services Group to supply the companies with more than $2 million in high definition products over the next year.... | |
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| | | Good morning, South Grade | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:50:33 AM by Blog57 Team | | With just one minute until air time, Dennis Maldonado holds the microphone to his mouth and practices his part of the newscast. "Good morning, Surfers," he reads from a script hanging on the wall opposite him. He races through — and earns a tut-tut from Jennifer Torres, who tells him not to talk so fast. .... | |
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| | | HDMI(TM) 1.3 Is Named Innovations 2007 Design and Engineering Award Honoree | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 6:51:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA(R)) today announced that HDMI Licensing, LLC, on behalf of the HDMI Founders, is an International CES Innovations 2007 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree for the HDMI 1.3 specification. Products considered for this prestigious award program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the trade press to honor outstanding design and engineering in cutting-edge consumer electronics products. The HDMI Founders include Hitachi, Matsushita (Panasonic), Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thomson and Toshiba. In June 2006, the HDMI Founders announced the HDMI 1.3 specification, the most significant upgrade yet in the interface that has become the de facto standard interface for high-definition devices.... | |
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| | | Japanese Stocks May Advance on Toyota's Earnings, U.S. Gains | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:49:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese stocks may rise on speculation Toyota Motor Corp. will report a record second- quarter profit today and after U.S. indexes had their biggest gain in a month. ``Toyota is one of the primary emblems of Japanese industry and its earnings will probably be very bullish,'' said Kenichi Azuma, a strategist at Cosmo Securities Co. in Tokyo. ``The market should rebound today based on what's happened in the U.S.'' Oil-related companies including Mitsubishi Corp. and Inpex Holdings Inc. may climb after the price of crude closed above $60 a barrel for the first time since Oct. 27. Nikkei 225 Stock Average futures expiring in December last traded in Chicago at 16,575, up from 16,380 in Osaka and 16,420 in Singapore. The Bank of New York Japan ADR Index, which tracks the nation's American depositary receipts, advanced 1.1 percent.... | |
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| | | Cameras with features and then some | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 10:52:21 AM by Blog57 Team | | A superzoom digital camera is one in which the focal length is around 4x to 12x. The focal length specification is the only true defining factor for what makes up the superzoom group of cameras. Superzooms are frequently found in prosumer style cameras, those cameras that fall somewhere in between what a professional and what a consumer would use for photography. These often mimic SLR camera bodies, but have fixed lens (whereas SLRs have removable lenses.) With the increasing of producing good technology on a smaller and smaller scale, some superzooms can be housed in compact body styles. Kodak Easy Share Z710 Of all the Kodak Easy Share Z models, the new Z710 is the most ideal camera for a superzoom in the Z lineup. The Z710 features 10x optical zoom and 5x optical zoom, a total of 50x zoom factor for around $299.95.... | |
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| | | Matsushita Profits More Than Double | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 2:50:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | Profit at Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. for the July-September quarter more than doubled from what it was a year ago on solid sales of flat-panel TVs, digital cameras and air conditioners. Group net profit for the fiscal second quarter at the Japanese manufacturer known globally for its Panasonic brand products soared to 79.3 billion yen ($670 million) from 31 billion yen, the Osaka-based company said Friday. Quarterly sales edged up 2 percent to 2.25 trillion yen ($19 billion) from 2.21 trillion yen, it said in a statement. Matsushita was able to offset the damage from global price competition and rising raw material costs with cost reduction efforts and a strategy of focusing on key profit-generating products that can command leading market share. Matsushita dominates in plasma display flat-panel TVs, where it faces little competition.... | |
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| | | AT&T Launches Video Monitoring Service | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 2:48:49 AM by Blog57 Team | | AT&T Inc. is introducing a home monitoring service that includes live video surveillance on a computer or cell phone, as well as lighting controls and detection sensors for motion, temperature changes and flooding. The service being launched Thursday, priced at $9.95 per month, is compatible with any broadband Internet service. The cellular feature is limited to mobile phones from Cingular Wireless, a majority-owned subsidiary of AT&T, and requires the customer to subscribe to a wireless Internet package costing $10 to $20 a month, on top of voice plan fees. A customer also needs to buy a $199 equipment package consisting of a tilt-and-pan video camera, a motion sensor for a door or window, a central router to connect those systems to the Internet, and two power-outlet modules that transmit the video between the camera and the router using the home's electrical wiring.... | |
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| | | Gearhouse Broadcast's Solutions To 15th Asian Games | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:48:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | International broadcast solutions company Gearhouse Broadcast has been awarded the contract to supply broadcast facilities for the production coverage of the 15th Asian Games. Eamonn Dowdall Managing Director at Gearhouse Broadcast said, We were awarded the contract by host broadcaster DAGBS on our track record in delivering broadcast solutions for major international sporting events and on the strength of previous performances for both HBS and TWI the organisations who make up DAGBS. .... | |
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| | | Japan Stocks May Slip on Yen, Evidence of Slowing U.S. Economy | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 2:48:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese stocks may drop after the yen strengthened against the dollar, and a bigger-than-expected drop in U.S. industrial production fueled concern that growth is slowing in the world's biggest economy. Exporters including Toyota Motor Corp. may pace losses. Declines may be limited after earnings at Intel Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. exceeded some analysts' estimates, boosting confidence that profits will continue to grow. ``The yen has now reached the 118 level against the dollar and there should be some initial selling as a result,'' said Hiroichi Nishi, an equities manager at Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. in Tokyo. ``However, there will be a buying push as a result of Intel's firm earnings report.'' Nikkei futures expiring in December last traded in Chicago at 16,565, down from 16,620 in Osaka and 16,625 in Singapore at the close yesterday.... | |
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