Panasonic and Comcast are tag teaming to bring Comcast customers a portable DVR so they can record programming at home and take it with them wherever they go. The Panasonic AnyPlay P-DVR Model TZ-LC100 will be available beginning in early 2009 and is being showcased at CES.

The Panasonic AnyPlay P-DVR Model TZ-LC100 is developed by Panasonic and co-branded with Comcast. It’s got 60GB of hard drive storage space, an 8.5″ folding LCD display screen and integrated stereo speakers. Also included are dual headphone jacks.

Panasonic recently unveiled a new Blu-ray Disc player which is the first player to offer up the Final Standard Profile and its variety new and enhanced features. The Panasonic DMP-BD30 is priced at around $500.

The Panasonic DMP-BD30, making use of the Final Standard Profile, offers some interesting new functions including Picture-in-Picture (which displays a second image in a sub window) and Audio Mixing (which allows one to switch the sound between the main and sub windows). There’s also a new multi-function SD Card slot which allows for images recorded on a HD SD card to be outputted at 1080p via HDMI.

Panasonic unveiled last week a massage chair which it feels provides the deepest tissue massage available. The Panasonic EP30005 is available for around $3,500.

The Panasonic EP30005 offers 1,117 massage modes, according to Panasonic, and makes use of a series of computerized rollers just below the surface of the chair. The chair scans the body of the user, then provides a customized arm massage, seat massage, and foot massage along with others. It has been programmed to deliver massage styles including Swedish, Shiatsu and Junetsu.

Panasonic today unveiled at the CEDIA event a new LCD home theater projector with has dedicated cinema and gaming modes. The PT-AX200U, which updates the popular PT-AX100U, should be available in October.

The Panasonic PT-AX200U’s gaming mode, said Panasonic, reportedly improves signal processing for 1/3 response time and also tunes picture quality so more image details appear in very dark or over-saturated areas that are prevalent in many games. The projector’s cinema mode offers features like an advanced sharpness control, high end color filter and better color correction.

Panasonic is bringing some more relatively affordable 1080p HD plasma TVs to market, it was announced today. The company unveiled at 2007 CEDIA the PZ77 series, consisting of the TH-42PZ77 (42-inch) and the TH-50PZ77 (50-inch). These models will be available this month for around $1,800 and $2,800 respectively.

Both models offer more than two million pixels, a resolution of 1920 x 1080 and a contrast ratio of 10,000:1. Also built into them is a SD memory card slot, anti-glare screen coating, two HDMI inputs, two component video inputs and synching technology for controlling it and other Panasonic gear via one remote control.

Panasonic has announced that they’re going to be launching an SDHC card with a 16GB capacity this November. This capacity quadruples the amount of storage currently available on the companies largest available card.

Panasonic says that the new, higher capacity storage card will be able to handle data transfers as fast as 20MB/second to support real-time recording with high-definition cameras such as the Panasonic HDC-SD5 and allowing as much as 4 hours of 1080i video to be stored on a single SDHC card.

As you might notice by the additional little logo on the front, Panasonic has upgraded its D-Snap MP3 player to now include Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity. The new D-Snap SV-SD950N has also added a couple buttons on the front to let its player hook up wirelessly with your Bluetooth phone, hands-free car unit or a Bluetooth stereo headset.

Aside from the added connectivity the D-Snap appears to be the same, still featuring its special noise canceling and comes packaged with a 1GB SD card. The only other changes, which are not quite as cool, are a decreased battery life due to the Bluetooth running and an increased price. The D-Snap SV-SD950N is expected to hit shelves in Japan on September 21.

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Panasonic is answering the call for HD home videos with a couple of new hi-def camcorders, one of which being the new HDC-SD5. The HD5 uses Panasonic’s original 3CCD HD-camcorder that records video at a 1920×1080 resolution along with an advanced O.I.S. system to help keep your shots from having the shakes, even when you do. The HDC-SD5 also makes use of a lens from the well-known Leica Camera using 12 lens elements in eight groups with a low-dispersion glass to help keep crisp, defined colors in the video.

Media is recorded onto SD/SDHC flash memory cards and contributes to this camcorder being what Panasonic calls the worlds smallest 3CCD full-HD camcorder to date. An 8GB SDHC card used with the SD5 camcorder can hold as much as 180 minutes of HD video and allow fast transfer from the card to your computers hard …

We can always count on the manufacturers of digital cameras to continually come out with products that have a higher pixel count. Today Panasonic kicked it up a notch by announcing the Lumix DMC-FX100 12.2 megapixel point and shoot camera featuring a wider angle shot than most point and shoots available today.

The new Lumix digital camera has a 3.6x zoom that spans the equivalent of 28mm to 100mm with the wider angle pictures. The camera also features something Panasonic called “Extra Optical Zoom” which extends the range to around 196mm, but the catch is that pictures taken at this zoom level are only 3 megapixels, and not the full 12.2 that the camera is capable of with the standard shots.

Panasonic made a point to remind consumers that the zoom available with this new camera is not a digital-zoom feature. Optical zoom is …

Panasonic will be leading out its new line of D-Snap players at the end of April with the D-Snap SV-SD850N digital audio player.

The 12mm thick player has an FM tuner, supports AAC, WMA and MP3 files, has a line in recorder and a 4 line text display which makes the player somewhat interesting, but none of those features really stand out to us. One of the features that do increase our level of interest is the impressive battery life. The D-Snap SV-SD850N is boasting 80 hours of music file playback on a single charge. That number drops significantly with the FM tuner or recording, but nevertheless is impressive.

Another interesting point of this new D-Snap is a noise canceling feature, which according to the press release can cut ambient noise by up to 83%. The noise canceling can be turned on or …

This is the 7.2 Megapixel Lumix DMC-TZ3 from Panasonic. Newly introduced to the 2007 line of Lumix digital cameras, the DMC-TZ3 features a 28mm wide-angle LEICA DC VARIO-ELMAR lens and a 3.0-inch LCD. The DMC-TZ3 has a compact, Stainless Steel body that measures 4.20” x 2.37” x 1.47” and weighs 0.51 lbs.

The DMC-TZ3 offers some advanced anti-blurring countermeasures to help you take better action shots. The Intelligent Image Stabilization system comprises two features: MEGA O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer) and Intelligent ISO Control. These two features help by compensating for the effects of hand-shake and image movement.

Another important feature is the Panasonic Venus Engine III image-processing engine. The engine helps to improve noise reduction and can record at a sensitivity setting as high as ISO 1250 with full resolution. The multi-tasking Venus Engine III improves upon response time with a shutter release time lag …

Washington Research Firm, located in Seattle, Washington, is claiming that one of its scientists was awarded a patent for some of the technology used in Bluetooth back in 1999. The firm is claiming damages for infringement on the use of “simplified high frequency broadband tuner and tuning method.”

The firm is suing Nokia, Samsung and Panasonic claiming that these cell phone makers “have manufactured, used, imported into the United States, sold and offered for sale devices which, or the use of which, infringes at least the ’963′ patent.” This essential means the manufacturers are using Bluetooth technology in their phones without paying royalties.

It appears the suit is aimed at products manufactured by CSR, a British chip manufacturer. Broadcom, CSR’s US based competitor has a license for the patented technology.

Many suits have been filed over Bluetooth …

Panasonic has recently unveiled two new high definition camcorders with some big screen features in tiny packages. The HDC-SD1 and HDC-DX1 are similar camcorders but both record high def in slightly different ways. The HDC-DX1 (pictured on the left) records onto DVD discs, and the HDC-SD1 records onto small (in size not capacity) SDHC memory cards.

The HDC-SD1 has some advantages with recording onto the memory cards by having no moving parts required in order to save the data. It has fewer parts to break, and is more resistant to shock. Also, it can potentially hold more data. A 4GB memory card can hold up to an hour of high definition video, where a dual layer DVD can hold up to about 40 minutes. And of course if you add a larger memory card, you can hold more recording time. Another …

Panasonic has come out with the latest in small AVCHD camcorders which will record High-Def video. The video is recorded onto a 4GB SDHC memory card that can hold between 40 and 90 minutes of video depending on the Mbps that the video is recorded at, and it has a battery that allows continuous recording for up to 65 minutes.

Using the 3CCD sensor the HDC-SD1 camcorder can record in full HD 1080i (1920 x 1080) and provide digital and optical zoom at 12X and 30X, respectively. You can watch the video you are recording with the 3″ LCD flip-out monitor and record sound in Dolby Digital 5.1 format with 5 separate microphones built into the camera that adjust based on zoom.

The attention-getter with this camcorder has got to be it’s size, though. At only 490 …