Panasonic will support Freeview HD
Panasonic will support Freeview HD as well as Freesat HD, with its first Freeview HD products coming to market after the new subscription-free HD service launches next year.
The announcement was made by Robert Scholes, Panasonic Sales Director, at the Intellect Consumer Electronics Conference in London this afternoon.
There's no detailed timescale for the new products, but we're assuming Panasonic will develop flatscreen TVs with built-in Freeview HD tuners, just as it has with Freesat HD, and possibly digital recorders and set-top boxes.
Scholes says Panasonic sold 100,000 Freesat TVs in the first year of Freesat's existence, and only needed to sell 60,000 to justify the move.
Panasonic has also confirmed it will launch a 3D plasma TV, 3D Blu-ray player and discs and 3D glasses "from next year". It's a definite roadmap, not a concept, says Scholes.
And a 2TB SD card is in the pipeline for for 2015.
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Hi,
Do you know if Panasonic will launch any stand alone 3D product for those of us who already have HDTV's? I assume the 3D Blu-Ray player will only work when watching Blu-Ray discs or will it have the ability via built in tuners to show normal TV programmes in 3D as well?
Bazzy!