Tech support in 140 characters or less? Panasonic’s going to give it a whirl, or shall we say tweet, as part of its social media customer service initiative. Panasonic Australia is launching support services for its Viera televisions and Lumix cameras through Twitter and Facebook. Customers will be able to contact Panasonic support reps through …

Sony is enhancing arsenal of its BD-Live features with the introduction of movieIQ, which connects viewers with a live real-time movie database powered by Gracenote. Angels and Demons will the the first to offer movieIQ. (Credit:Sony Pictures Home Entertainment ) movieIQ will directly link scenes within the movie to relevant information including updated filmographies of the director and cast, production …

Update: 3D-capable TVs were all the rage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year. CNET staffers who saw them were underwhelmed, but that hasn’t stopped vendors like Sony pushing ahead with the technology. (3D Glasses image by Harry Fodor, royalty free) At a Sony Blu-ray briefing in Sydney this morning, visiting Japanese honcho Yoshinami Takahashi, the deputy …

Sony Computer Entertainment Australia gathered the media earlier this month to promote VidZone and some other upcoming features on PS3 and PSP. While it was interesting to see the highlights of the company’s roadmap for the next few months, it was also notable for what they didn’t discuss, namely the hot topics of last year’s 2008 confab,PlayTV and BD-Live. PlayTV, …

Australian DVD rental company Quickflix, which has previously delivered movies ordered online through the mail, will begin taking the next step to a fully digital service by offering movie downloads. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Working in an initial partnership with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group Australia, the service will make downloadable films available for rent (with DRM restrictions …

Let’s be honest — having the largest big screen in the neighbourhood is quite a coup. With the installation of two new HD LED video screens at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium, sports fans at the grounds have bragging rights to 232 square metres of big screen glory that almost threatens to overshadow the live action on the field. Ten meters high …

We’ve seen energy consumption ratings on white goods since the mid-1980s, but now we’ll start seeing the familiar stars on new TVs as well as refrigerators, washers, dryers, dishwashers and air conditioners. Announced earlier this year by the Minister for Environment, Heritage and The Arts, Peter Garrett, this joint government and industry TV labelling program is currently voluntary, but will …

The bragging rights to having the “biggest big screen” TV have passed from Panasonic to Sharp, with the local arrival of the latter’s 108-inch (274 cm) LCD model LB-1085. Measuring a whopping 2382mm x 1340mm, which equates to a viewing area of roughly 3.2 square meters, the Sharp LCD pips Panasonic’s flagship 103-inch plasma, which has been on the Australian …

Panasonic’s larger-than-life plasma panel (click for larger image) If you want bragging rights for the biggest TV on your block, start clearing wall space for Panasonic’s upcoming monster of a plasma panel that tips the display charts at 103 inches (that’s 2.62 meters of screen for the metric-minded). Panasonic showed off the panel last week at the CEDIA Expo on …

Want to go with 5.1 speakers for the full surround sound home theatre experience, but can’t bear the thought of all that speaker wire snaking around your lounge? The good newsYou’ll never get rid of speaker wire completely, but we’ve rounded up a few home cinema systems that at least eliminate the biggest headache – connecting the long run to …