Matsushita and Google mix their forces in the domain of internet TV

The Japanese electronics company Matsushita has started to work with Google in order to create a television, which can be connected to the internet and able to broadcast content like photos or video files, to the delight of more and more internet users. The television, which will be released in the USA this spring, will allow users connect to the internet directly and watch videos on You Tube site, which is specialized in posting videos directly by users. The Japanese company has added that they have not fixed yet a date for the global release of this product.

Cooperation between Panasonic, YouTube, and Picasa Web Albums materializes their wish to be considered among the leaders of the natural evolution of the internet, extending it to the sector of high definition television. The contract signed with Google is not one of exclusivity, has declared the representative of Matsushita, Akira Kadota.

Matsushita, the main producer in the world of televisions based on plasma, have declared that they will take over the control of a company with mixed capital, specialized in the production of LCD type displays, being able to build up one more production location and marking a major change of strategy concerning the market of flat televisions, according to Reuters.

Matsushita has invested aggressively up to now in the plasma displays sector, believing that this technology is the most efficient concerning screens with the diagonal bigger than 37 inches (94 centimeters), though preferring LCD technology for smaller screens, based on liquid crystals.