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Viera Cast is a Smart TV platform by Panasonic that makes it possible to stream multimedia content from the Internet directly into select Viera HDTVs and Blu-ray players. It was announced during the January 2008 exhibition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas [1] and began rolling out in Panasonic Viera TVs several months later.
In United States network television programming, a hiatus is a break of several weeks, months or years in the normal broadcast programming of a television series. Such a break can occur part-way through the season of a series, in which case it is also called a mid-season break, or between distinct television seasons (usually starting in June and ending in September, when shooting starts for ...
A modern "useless machine" about to turn itself off. A useless machine or useless box is a device whose only function is to turn itself off. The best-known useless machines are those inspired by Marvin Minsky's design, in which the device's sole function is to switch itself off by operating its own "off" switch.
At the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Panasonic introduced their 152" 2160p 3D plasma. In 2010, Panasonic shipped 19.1 million plasma TV panels. [38] In 2010, the shipments of plasma TVs reached 18.2 million units globally. [39] Since that time, shipments of plasma TVs have declined substantially.
Noise, static or snow screen captured from a blank VHS tape. Noise, commonly known as static, white noise, static noise, or snow, in analog video, CRTs and television, is a random dot pixel pattern of static displayed when no transmission signal is obtained by the antenna receiver of television sets and other display devices.
In the cases of characters who were frozen in off-balance positions (e.g. running or lunging), concealed armatures were used to support their weight. [2] The mid-pour orange juice and mid-spill milk were both plastic. [2] Director Wes Craven said the child actors needed little encouragement to be rambunctious, being naturally full of energy. In ...
7 August Zen and the Art of TV Manufacture, a Panasonic TV factory in South Wales; in 1933 the company founder Kōnosuke Matsushita established seven guiding commercial principles; the Fidelity TV factory in west London was given one year - 1988 - to turn its fortunes around or be closed; the factory's closure was announced to the workforce on ...
3DO (3 Dimensional Optics) is a video gaming hardware format developed by The 3DO Company and conceived by entrepreneur and Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins. [10] [11] [12] The specifications were originally designed by Dave Needle and RJ Mical of New Technology Group, and were licensed by third parties; most hardware were packaged as home video game consoles under the name Interactive ...