Panasonic 2010 Viera TVs Add Netflix Streaming

[admin]

Panasonic announced today that streaming instantly from Netflix is now available to Netflix members via Panasonic’s 2010 VIERA CAST-enabled VIERA HDTVs and Blu-ray Disc players. Netflix is the latest entertainment feature to be added to VIERA CAST, Panasonic’s IPTV functionality. Earlier this year, Panasonic added Skype voice and video calling, Twitter and Pandora to an already robust list of popular entertainment and information options, including Amazon Video on Demand, You Tube, Google’s Picasa Web Album, Bloomberg News and a weather service.

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[cwall99]

Avchd???

So I set myself up with the NetFlix and have watched a couple movies on my Viera (I have the 50-inch G20 - which I love). The first movie I watched basically suffered from a bad print: A Boy and his Dog.

Then I watched True Stories, a daffy comedy from David Byrne (yes, that David Byrne). Sound was okay. Video was pretty underwhelming. Like watching YouTube. I have a 16 MBPS service from ComCast and, just before I started watching the movie, I checked my speed (using Speakeasy.Net's speed test) and was pulling down between 18 and 20 MBPS.

It actually looks better on my sons' little 32-inch 720P Insignia (through their XBox) than it does on the larger screen (at 1080P).

But what's the deal with this daffy video format that Panasonic uses as the sole format their TVs can display? Do they really expect us to go out and buy all new Panasonic cameras?

Can anyone recommend a good piece of software to convert MOV files to AVCHD?

Thanks.

 

[alterseekers]

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