Panasonic Intros Interactive Professional Plasmas for Higher ED, Corporate Applications

June 18, 2012 - ProAV News, rAVe [PUBS],

Panasonic last week announced a new series of interactive plasma displays, the PB1 Series. The new displays offer pixel-for-pixel accuracy, plus full whiteboard and presentation capability. They are targeted at higher education settings as well as corporate meeting rooms.

The PB1 Series features high-speed and simultaneous multiple-input drawing capabilities via the new electronic pen system. Panasonic says this system detects and displays the pen position 60 times a second on each pixel. The system allows up to four pens to be used at once for actions such as written annotation, drawing and moving items independently around the screen. Additionally, the system includes handwriting recognition software.

Offered as the 65” TH-65PB1, 85” TH-85PB1 and 103” TH-103PB1, these professional plasma displays also feature flexible wireless connectivity via a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Previously, if several users wanted to share the screen, they would have to switch connection cables manually. Now, with the Panasonic Easy Wireless Stick (ET-UW100), users can automatically show their PC or Mac screens on the display without installing any software using their PC’s Wi-Fi or changing any of the computer’s network settings. With the Easy Wireless Stick, the PB1 Series requires no connection cables and allows up to 16 PC connections to be shown on the screen in different cells at any given time via the Multi Live Mode.

The TH-65PB1 will be shipping this summer, while the TH-85PB1 and TH-103PB1 are targeted for shipments later towards the end of the year.

For more information, go to http://panasonic.net/prodisplays/specialissue/interactive_pb1/