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“Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. filed the lawsuit in Tokyo District Court against LG Electronics Inc. and a similar request with Japanese customs authorities on Monday, company spokesman Yoshihiro Kitadeya said from Osaka, where Matsushita is based. Mr. Kitadeya said Matsushita has been in talks for a year, demanding that South Korea's LG Electronics pay royalties on two patents he says are being violated in LG's… Read More

Panasonic is the best-known brand of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. With their striking, minimalist designs and perfectly flat screens, the new Onyx XVS series plasma sets seem to projectimages in mid-air, making the Onyx XVS experience a dramatic departure from conventional television. “The entire front panel is masked by a single pane of glass, with no exposed hardware,” explains Ed Wolff, Vice President of… Read More

The group, which also includes International Business Machines Corp., Intel Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. and Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros., will not have any technology to license until the end of the year. But the announcement, released late on Tuesday, marks a shift in the way the movie industry has reacted to the threat of online piracy of its films. Current DVDs are protected by a system called CSS, for… Read More

Anticipating a wave of entries of Blu-ray Disc-based products in the coming months, Panasonic has established a laboratory in Osaka to facilitate companies adopting the format and entering the market.  The Blu-ray Disc Founders, which will be re-incorporated into the Blu-ray Disc Association later this year, developed a format to enable rewriting, recording and playback of high-definition TV (HDTV) and other digital content… Read More

The proposal includes both read-only and rewritable formats, but only the ROM format in its 0.9 version was approved by the committee during meetings last week by a vote of 8-6. The HD DVD format is a violet laser-based optical disk system with a capacity of 15-20 Gbyte per side using the same disk structure as current DVD disks. As the next-generation optical disk system using a violet laser, nine consumer electronics… Read More

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation, Hitachi, Ltd., NEC Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation, today announced the establishment of the 'CE Linux Forum (CELF)'. CELF will discuss and formalize requirements for extensions to Linux [*2] to meet the needs of CE [*1] products such as audio/visual products and cellular phones, etc. CELF… Read More

Microsoft Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) today announced they are expanding the HighMAT specifications to support all major writable DVD media formats (DVD-RAM and other recordable DVD formats) for exchanging digital audio, pictures and video files between personal computers and consumer electronics devices in addition to CDs. The companies plan to support the new technology for DVDs in their respective product… Read More