The Panasonic MW-10 has a built-in CD player and an FM/AM radio tuner with a 45-station preset memory. It comes with a “universal dock” that works with any iPod, and will play your saved music and videos. It also has a remote control that can play your iPod when it’s docked.

What sets it apart is its 9″ LCD screen, which can display photos from a CD, SD card, or the MW-10’s own 4GB of internal memory. When you combine the screen, the quality sound system, and your own media, you get an all-in-one device that can mix and match your own media with ease, such as displaying a slide show of your photos alongside favorite music from your iPod.

The MW-10 will be available in the three colors seen above in December for $299.95.

Image: Panasonic.

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Audio system + iPod dock + photo frame

Panasonic is going to unprecedented lengths to show consumers how this new technology works — and why you’re going to want it. Three custom-built, expandable tractor trailers are traveling the nation, each containing a Full HD 3D Home Theater experience. Each truck can accommodate between 25 and 35 people at a time.

The Tour trucks will visit corporate headquarters of retailers, trade shows, industry conferences, universities, and athletic events. One truck will be present at Panasonic’s booth at CEDIA Expo 2009, which is set to take place September 9-13, 2009, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. The tour also plans to play for an extended stay at the Staples Center in L.A. in conjunction with Los Angeles Lakers games this fall and winter. Panasonic hasn’t announced a complete list of tour dates and locations yet, but it’s probably a safe bet that Las Vegas’ infamous Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January will have at least one of the trucks on hand as well.

The tour is expected to run through March of next year, with the goal of letting more than 500,000 people experience this new technology for themselves. More information is available at panasonic.com/3D.

Images: Panasonic Corporation of North America.

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Panasonic’s Full HD 3D trucks coming to you

Among Panasonic and Fox’s intentions are plans to bring customized tractor trailers that hold 103-inch Panasonic VIERA Plasma HDTVs (pictured) and Blu-ray Disc Players. Consumers will get a taste of both 3D images from the movie, and Panasonic’s 3D home theater tech.

Avatar is set on the distant moon Pandora, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. Panasonic’s team-up with Fox to promote the movie was preceded by support from Panasonic hardware throughout its filming.

Panasonic VIERA 103″ image: Zuma Press. Avatar image: 20th Century Fox.

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Panasonic teams with James Cameron’s Avatar

Panasonic has just announced that as of today, Amazon Video On Demand is now available on its entire line of Blu-ray players. So in addition to playing those incredible high-def movie discs, your Blu-ray player will also now instantly stream movies and TV episodes from Amazon’s catalog of 45,000+ titles, including more than 1,000 in HD.

Panasonic has already been offering Amazon Video On Demand on its line of VIERA CAST-enabled HDTVs as of April ‘09. Today Panasonic is extending the reach of its VIERA CAST software to include its line-up of Blu-ray players as well. Existing Panasonic Blu-ray owners need only download a freely offered update from Panasonic when their Blu-ray player is connected to the Internet.

Panasonic’s VIERA CAST network also brings viewers access to YouTube, Picasa, Bloomberg News, and weather. Panasonic intends to add more directed websites to the service over time.

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Panasonic Blu-ray players to get Amazon VOD

From Panasonic’s press release:

The continued trend toward Full HD in TV broadcasts, discs and digital AV equipment has spawned demand for innovative digital recorders. Panasonic’s response is the “HD Everything” concept – products that allow anyone to easily control, preserve and share a wide variety of Full HD images.

Specs include:

• DVR recording in high-def
• Copy up to 24 hours of content from the DVR over to a single Blu-ray disc in high-speed copy mode
• High-image-quality PHL Reference Chroma Processor Plus and P4HD
• Dolby TrueHD and DTS-Master Audio Essential sound
• Save images from an HD camcorder or LUMIX digital camera, or music from CDs onto the built-in hard disk drive or a Blu-ray Disc
• Support for Panasonic’s VIERA CAST Internet function, so users can easily access Internet content such as YouTube and Picasa Web Albums
• freesat+ Twin Tuner allows you to record two programs at once
• 1080/24p playback

View the full specs for all three models at Panasonic’s HD Everything website. No word on when or if these three models will be released outside the UK.

Image: Copyright 2009 ©Panasonic.

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The UK’s first Blu-ray recorder

One of the things that must happen for online video to become as ubiquitous as TV is for it to become as easy as TV. Computers intimidate people; they want single-purpose appliances as simple as a toaster.

Some companies are trying to make that happen with TV set-top boxes that channel YouTube content, but Panasonic is skipping the box entirely with their new PZ-850 Viera TV. Chris Albrecht posts a sneak peek.

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Panasonic Unveils YouTube TV