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Hope yours was as great as ours.

Our family was selected by Panasonic to be one of there Living in HD families.  We are in fact LiHD family #66.  The equipment, which includes a 50″ plasma HD TV, BluRay entertainment system, HD digital video camera, digital point and shoot camera, digital SLR camera, portable BluRay player, toughbook laptop, four BluRay movies, multiple SD cards, and all cables.  The equipment was even installed free of charge.

We have have been playing with our new toys for two weeks now and have loved every minute of them.  The great pictures taken on Halloween were taken using the Lumix point and shoot camera.  My Wordless Wednesday selection was taken with the Digital SLR camera.  My XBox360 looks incredible on the 50″ plasma and NCAA Football 10 has such vivid color and I can actually read the text.  I have upgraded my Netflix to include BluRay discs whenever possible because watching National Treasure 2 on the BluRay player has me hooked.  The movie looks almost 3D as you can really see depth in the picture.  The Tornado and I watched Ratatouille on the portable BluRay player in her room and it too had such a sharp, vivid picture.  Both movies were given to us by Panasonic.

All this great stuff was not given to us without a price.  On Tuesday we were visited by four members of Panasonic, two from the New Jersey office and two from the Osaka office.  They all were very nice and we all had an in depth discussion for over two hours about mainly the television and a little about the BluRay entertainment system.  The purpose of the discussion was to see how easy it is to operate the equipment and to see where improvements could be made.  My wife mentioned how it felt like we were being quizzed and we both remarked that we were failing as we didn’t know how to use all of the features of the television.  The representative handling the conversation was great and even commented on the fact that we had only a week to figure everything out.  And I tell you the tv does a lot.

Our guests took pictures and sketched the setups and proceeded to leave and back to playing we went.  Though, next time we have the Panasonic reps over we are going to study and make sure not to fail the quiz again.  All and all it was a great experience and we look forward to more visits.