Panasonic

Panasonic, part of MEI - Matsushita Electric Industries (Japan), is one of the leading world-wide manufacturers for Audio and Video Electronic. Panasonic early discovered the importance of Europe as market as well as in setting standards. From beginning Panasonic very much supported the specification and standardisation of an open software platform allowing interoperability across different networks and platforms. Therefore Panasonic strongly favours MHP as the open API standard for DVB in the future. To further support the MHP process, Panasonic decided to develop its own MHP stack. Based on the implementation experience Panasonic could influence the ongoing refinement process. In order to support the most important interoperability aspect of MHP, Panasonic became one of the founding members of the MHP Test Consortium and promotes the development of test cases by financial means and by participation of its experts. In addition Panasonic contributed the HAVi test cases to the MHP test suite. Based on all this engagements Panasonic succeeded to introduce the world’s first MHP certified decoder in the market.

Panasonic has been joining various interoperability groups and workshops together with application developers and other implementers in order to solve interoperability problems. Panasonic expects The MHP knowledge project to supply a sufficient basis for application developers to create more new applications and to gain a higher level of interoperability. Panasonic will therefore fully support the MHP-KDB project by experience of all related engineers.