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They're also introducing at CES in Las Vegas a number of new TV and audio features, plus greater connectivity...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEADIN:\u003cbr/\u003e              Panasonic has announced a new collaboration with Amazon, bringing Alexa to people's cars.\u003cbr/\u003e              They're also introducing at CES in Las Vegas a number of new TV and audio features, plus greater connectivity while on the move.\u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE:\u003cbr/\u003e              Amazon's Alexa will now keep you company in the car.\u003cbr/\u003e              Speaking at CES in Las Vegas, Panasonic Chairman and CEO Tom Gebhardt, says the move is \"A key strategic initiative of ours is to bring voice into the car seamlessly, leveraging our Skip-Gen platform. We're working with industry leaders to make this reality today.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Tom Taylor from Amazon Alexa, says \"it's extremely important for us to allow customers have access to Alexa anywhere they want to be. And today we're excited to announce the Panasonic will be one of the first customers that gets Alexa onboard as a feature.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              The two companies are working on an integrated system for Alexa in automobiles - with some features even working offline.\u003cbr/\u003e              Panasonic's also lanching a new digital solution centre: \"The Centre will be a resource within the new Panasonic system solution company in North America. It will support several hundred software engineers and a broad range of applications in sectors like public safety, security, manufacturing, food and retail, as well as supply chain.\" says Gebhardt,\u003cbr/\u003e              Keeping to the subject of travel, Gebhardt explains the company's improved internet connection in the sky.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The network, when paired with a new satellite modem, will offer bandwidth up to 20 times greater than what was previously available. It will greatly improve experiences for internet browsing and enable applications like Skype and even open up the possibility of video streaming in the sky.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              He says that airlines such as Southwest and United hope to install it for customers this quarter.\u003cbr/\u003e              On road travel, Gebhardt talks about intelligent highways and how they will integrate with smart vehicles.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"There'll be room for four times more cars than existing highways, less traffic and fuel consumption for Coloradans and 80 per cent and potentially up to 80 percent fewer crashes from unimpaired motorists.\" he says. \u003cbr/\u003e              Michael Moskowitz, President of Panasonic Canada, announced two new television series - the FZ950 and the FZ800.\u003cbr/\u003e              Not only that, he also revealed the new Panasonic GA10 smart speaker.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Now our consumers don't have to sacrifice convenience for quality with the assistance of the GA10 you can stream music from your favourite services including Google Play, Music, YouTube and at industry-leading sound quality.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Lastly, he introduced a new Lumix camera - the GH5 series.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The Lumix GH5 achieves the best ever low light sensitivity and the highest ever video image quality in the history of Lumix cameras. When shooting in the dark environments, videographers can now focus on filming that perfect shot instead of worrying about increased ISO noise.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Gebhardt finished by introducing an upgraded Android in-vehicle system, designed with Google.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I think the consumer has been looking for for a long time from the standpoint of thinking that this was really in the future but the future is really today.\"\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Las Vegas - 8 January 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Wide of Panasonic presentation, people taking their seats\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Tom Gebhardt, Chairman and CEO of Panasonic Corporation of North America, taking the stage\u003cbr/\u003e              3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Gebhardt, Chairman and CEO of Panasonic Corporation of North America:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"A key strategic initiative of ours is to bring voice into the car seamlessly, leveraging our Skip-Gen platform. We're working with industry leaders to make this reality today. Panasonic and Amazon have long been partners in the B2B space. We have applications in retail solutions, in cloud, including our web services are integral to collecting data for work that we're doing in intelligence highways and many more applications.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Amazon Alexa in-vehicle experience video during presentation\u003cbr/\u003e              5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Taylor, Senior Vice President of Amazon Alexa:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We call this future Alexa on board, it's extremely important for us to allow customers have access to Alexa anywhere they want to be. And today we're excited to announce the Panasonic will be one of the first customers that gets Alexa onboard as a feature.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Gebhardt: \"I think there's a breakthrough. It's really revolutionary from the standpoint of something that consumers have desired and wanted. And actually we're delivering it so we're happy to be part of it and doing it both online and offline iss exceptional.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Amazon Alexa in-vehicle experience video during presentation\u003cbr/\u003e              7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Gebhardt, Chairman and CEO of Panasonic Corporation of North America:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Today Panasonic is announcing the establishment of the Digital Solutions Centre. The Centre will be a resource within the new Panasonic system solution company in North America. It will support several hundred software engineers and a broad range of applications in sectors like public safety, security, manufacturing, food and retail, as well as supply chain. It will also support theme parks and entertainment destinations in both the United States and Canada. Its focus will be to bring the physical and digital worlds together through IOT and B2B solutions via a unified software platform. We've had a lot of success in this approach already with this, with our business in the automotive in avionic sector. Now we're intensifying our efforts to a much broader extent set across a number of industries and a number of different environments.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Wide of audience during presentation\u003cbr/\u003e              9. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Gebhardt, Chairman and CEO of Panasonic Corporation of North America:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Today, I'd like to share with you some really exciting news for the people who fly. And I'm assuming from looking at the audience that all of you fly. Until fairly recently the airline cabin was one of the last places where the digital world didn't really intersect with the physical world. Some folks kind of like that. But if you're travelling on business or you want to stream your latest binge watching passion at 30,000 feet it is sure convenient to have onboard satellite Wi-Fi. And today we're announcing our third generation technology, Panasonic's third generation communication network would be a step function change in technology. The network, when paired with a new satellite modem, will offer bandwidth up to 20 times greater than what was previously available. It will greatly improve experiences for internet browsing and enable applications like Skype and even open up the possibility of video streaming in the sky. And it's in the near term. A number of our online partners including United and Southwest will begin installing with the Gen3 system on aircraft this quarter.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              10. Close of audience holding their devices\u003cbr/\u003e              11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Gebhardt, Chairman and CEO of Panasonic Corporation of North America:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"There'll be room for four times more cars than existing highways, less traffic and fuel consumption for Coloradans and 80 per cent and potentially up to 80 percent fewer crashes from unimpaired motorists. We believe that connecting smart autonomous vehicles to smart highways is really going to be a game changer in many ways.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              12. Close of audience holding their devices\u003cbr/\u003e              13. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Moskowitz, President of Panasonic Canada:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Today we are please to make a global announcement of Panasonic's two new series of OLED TVs - the FZ950 series and the FZ800 series.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Pan to television on stage ++CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS SHOT++\u003cbr/\u003e              15. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Moskowitz, President of Panasonic Canada:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"You can count on Panasonic to step in and improve the listening experience for our consumers. And that's why we've reimagined smart speaker listening experience and introducing the Panasonic GA10 - our newest smart speaker with a Google assist built in. Now our consumers don't have to sacrifice convenience for quality with the assistance of the GA10 you can stream music from your favourite services including Google Play, Music, YouTube and at industry-leading sound quality.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              16. Close of audience\u003cbr/\u003e              17. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Moskowitz, President of Panasonic Canada:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"In fact we are pleased to now formally announce here today the release of the new GH5, the next generation of award winning G8 series with stronger than ever video camera capabilities. ++shows camera++ We've listened to our filmmakers, both seasoned professionals and aspiring beginners, and are proud to have delivered a product that builds on the success of our counterparts to meet the needs of the 21st century. The Lumix GH5 achieves the best ever low light sensitivity and the highest ever video image quality in the history of Lumix cameras. When shooting in the dark environments, videographers can now focus on filming that perfect shot instead of worrying about increased ISO noise.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              18. Android 8.0-powered in-vehicle experience video\u003cbr/\u003e              19. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Gebhardt, Chairman and CEO of Panasonic Corporation of North America:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Gene (Karshenboym, Head of Partner Engineering, Google North America) it's something that I think the consumer has been looking for for a long time from the standpoint of thinking that this was really in the future but the future is really today and from that standpoint it really seems that by adding the Google Assist into this Skip Gen platform that we already developed together is really the opportunity going forward.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              20. 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