Panasonic takes new products on tour

SECAUCUS, N.J. -- Panasonic announced that it is giving consumers the chance to experience its 2011 line-up of home entertainment products during its six-week, 15-market "Panasonic Experience Amazing Tour."

The tour starts April 4 in New York and will make stops in Chicago, Los Angeles,Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC over the next five weeks, through May 15.

The Experience Amazing Tour will give visitors an opportunity to experience for themselves Panasonic's 2011 line of Full HD 3D VIERA HDTVs, VIERA Connect-enabled IPTVs, 3D Blu-ray Disc players, rechargeable 3D Active Shutter Eyewear, and Panasonic's 2011 digital imaging products including Panasonic's consumer 3D camcorders and LUMIX digital cameras with interchangeable 3D lenses.

The display will also feature a range of immersive 3D content including the latest 3D programming from DIRECTV's suite of linear 3D TV channels, including the n3D™ Powered by Panasonic channel, PC-based 3D video gaming from nVIDIA; and an array of new VIERA Connect IPTV apps optimized for large-screen flat panel HDTVs.

Visitors to the Panasonic Experience Amazing Tour will also have an opportunity to get hands on with Panasonic 3D products and also see themselves in 3D using Panasonic's 2011 3D consumer camcorders.

"We are very excited to get out there and engage consumers across the country with our Experience Amazing Tour," said Shiro Kitajima, president Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company. "Panasonic has so many exciting new, category-leading products to share with consumers from the latest VIERA Full HD 3D TVs and 3D Blu-ray Disc Home Theater systems to our vastly expanded VIERA Connect IPTV features and line of 3D digital cameras and camcorders. We created this tour to let consumers get hands-on with our 2011 products and experience for themselves how amazing and easy-to-use the world of home entertainment has become."