April 27 is the scheduled date for the launch of Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd’s world’s first 42-inch plasma TVs with full high definition panels in Japan.
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<img src=”http://i18.tinypic.com/2ykm05k.jpg” align=”left” height=”139″ width=”180″ />Panasonic North America is establishing a Blu-ray Testing Centre in Hollywood in order to test that content meets certain standards, prior to discs being replicated. Blu-ray’s complicated copy protection systems require a high level of technical sophistication to verify, and the motion picture industry have expressed the need for such a testing centre.
<!–more–>Testing services provided will include a format verification service for the logical format of BD Video/Live Discs, and a playback testing service.
Panasonic is inviting the member companies of Blu-ray Disc
Association (BDA) to install their BD-Video playback products, including Blu-ray
recorders and players in PHBTC so that content providers and authoring studios
can confirm the interoperability of their titles using these playback products.
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