There’s a lot of hype around 3D at the moment, but the much more interesting technology making it into the current generation of TVs is video on demand. And today Panasonic announced that they have partnered with Yahoo!7 to offer 7Plus catch up TV content through their Viera CAST portal later this year.
The move makes Panasonic the second TV manufacturer to offer the video on demand service, following Sony’s announcement earlier this year. It also makes their Viera CAST a lot more interesting, given that up until now it pretty much only supported YouTube and Picasa (and Bloomberg, but who cares about that?). Panasonic have also announced that they’ll be offering Twitter through Viera CAST later this year, as well as Skype.
We know the ABC are talking to a range of manufacturers, and now that NineMSN has launched their web VOD service, it’s only a matter of time before we see it on TVs. Which makes the whole video on demand market a lot more interesting.
Steve M.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 4:01 PMSweet. I have VieraCast through my BD player – looks like I have a new way of watching Lost!
Wilson Cheng
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 5:29 PMI wouldn’t be so excited about it. Have you actually tried watching anything from plus7? The bandwidth is pathetic. Also the resolution.
Quasar
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 8:35 PMYeah. It is ugly as hell. Same as the new Nine version, though its not quite as bad as plus7.
Daz
Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 10:58 AMOK reading this thread all this was happening back in April, Its now december and Im attempting to find a definitive list of what panasonic has on board with Viera Cast. My confirmed list at present is
Skype, U Tube, Picassa Web Albumns, Bloomberg and I think thats it, nothing real inspiring just yet. Am I MISSING something?
Shayne
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 10:06 AMSo I have just purhased the latest Blueray player with twin tuners, and viera cast, I was hoping to have all this content avlaible, but I am told by panasonic that the content is only for TVs. Are they guilty of false advertising? Even on the box it show SKYPE but even that say comming soon.