Three days in Japan with Panasonic

[Andrew Everard]

Just back from a whistlestop trip to Japan – flew out Sunday night, back Friday morning – to visit Panasonic's TV manufacturing plants in Japan and talk tech with the company's R&D, production and marketing teams.

Three blogs already online:

Himeji LCD cell factory, Panasonic's latest

Amagasaki Plasma

And the company's state of the art recycling plant, PETEC

More to follow, hopefully tomorrow.

UPDATE: Blog added on Panasonic's fascinating House of History museum

UPDATE: And again to add final blog from the Viera technical day

 

[idc]

You must be fluent by now.

 

[Andrew Everard]

Far from it. Just drop in enough to worry engineers that I may have understood what they were saying when they had rapid discussions before answering questions

 

[steve iow]

welcome back, looking forward to reading your reports

 

[idc]

I find knowing "thankyou" and "two beers please" in the local lingo, along with a thorough knowledge of English with mime skills and shouting is enough to survive anywhere in the world.

 

[Clare Newsome]

Andrew Everard:
Just back from a whistlestop trip to Japan – flew out Sunday night, back Friday morning – to visit Panasonic's TV manufacturing plants in Japan and talk tech with the company's R&D, production and marketing teams.

Three blogs already online:

Himeji LCD cell factory, Panasonic's latest

Amagasaki Plasma

And the company's state of the art recycling plant, PETEC

More to follow, hopefully tomorrow.

Welcome back

Fascinating blogs - it's moved on so much in the past few years!

 

[Andrew Everard]

idc:I find knowing "thankyou" and "two beers please" in the local lingo, along with a thorough knowledge of English with mime skills and shouting is enough to survive anywhere in the world.

That and a gunboat off the coast, huh?

 

[Anonymous]

Read your blog about the massive Panasonic plant, very interesting reading, well done you,ve earned your wages for this week

 

[Andrew Everard]

Too kind.

 

[Anonymous]

Your very welcome. The technology used by these guys is fantastic and the outlay to set up such a facility must have been astronomical, as i used to own a sign company years ago i would have been pulling what little hair i,ve got out just trying to manufacture and install the lettering on the roof.

 

[Andrew Everard]

Himeji Y100bn (£800m): 92% owned by Panasonic, 8% by Hitachi and 'others'

 

[Andrew Everard]

UPDATE: Original post updated with further blog

 

[bigboss]

I envy your job!

 

[Andrew Everard]

UPDATE: Final blog just added to original post, covering Viera technical day

 

[Clare Newsome]

Superb stuff. Nothing beats going to the source

 

[Anonymous]

Just read the blog, there is no mention of the calibration supported by the 2011 models - can you provide details?

I calibrate my PC screen on a regular basis (as a bit of an amateur photographer) and I understand Panasonic are in partnership with another company to provide software that using a colourometer does a one touch adjustment using the ethernet port on the screen?

 

[Andrew Everard]

- THX 3D Certification on VT GT and G (2010 only 2D THX certification)
- ISFccc Certified Calibration Configuration on VT GT G + DT LCD

Beyond the presence of a THX setting and of course the ability to alter just about everything in the calbration configuration, nothing else was mentioned.