Walk into any big Irish electronics store: chances are it'll be dominated by Samsung, Sony, Canon or LG.
Panasonic doesn't seem to be on the radar with the punters of Power City. Perhaps this is because its stuff is pretty high-end.
Nevertheless, I've had a good root through the stuff Panasonic will be launching on the Irish market this year, thanks to a big tech conference I'm at in Munich. It's impressive.
What's on offer is three things: 3D HD televisions, 3D Blu-Ray players and some new camera equipment.
The 3D tellies aren't especially unique, with Sony, Toshiba, LG and Samsung all doing them too. Its Blu-Ray 3D players are interesting, though. Firstly, because there are 31 3D titles coming out in 2010, most of them blockbusters. Secondly, because Panasonic has gotten the start-up time of its Blu-Ray payers down to seven seconds. (My current Sony model -- which is two years old -- takes about 35 seconds to start up.)
The best of the rest is the HDV cam that will shoot in 3D and a couple of Lumix compact digital cameras.
There's also a range of iPod/iPhone docks, which I didn't know Panasonic was into. Here are two of them that I had a short play with: the SC-HC3 (€200)
and the quite lovely SP100 (€140).
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