Yesterday marked our 1 year anniversary as a LivinginHD Family, and every day I am so grateful to have been given this opportunity. We've been given so many great things (including non-product experiences), our Viera TV is the proud center piece in our living room. Every time I go away for a few days and am forced to watch a hotel TV, or anyone else's TV, and then come back home, I am just blown away with how perfectly sharp and clear the picture is. When we're discussing watching a movie or TV show with friends, it invariably turns to "Let's go to Bas and Ada's since they have the best TV". Watching the 3D shows on DirecTV has been an absolutely amazing experience as well, the newest 3D channel has had some great documentaries which really show off the future of 3D TV.

My picture-taking

A few weeks ago, several LiHD Families were asked to participate in an interview which was going to be recorded, and used by Panasonic in their promo clips at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in early January. We were fortunate enough to be one of these families, so one fine afternoon, an entire production crew showed up at our house, as well as the always awesome Greg the Answerman. Setting up the cameras, lighting, and sound was quite an undertaking, but the result was worth it (sorry about the crappy quality, obviously not a Lumix, it's my cell phone).

The crew was fantastic, and we had tons of fun giving our opinion on the 3D technology we'd been testing, as well as our feedback on IP TV (VieraCast) and the Eco Ideas which shows Panasonic's commitment to the

In our case, this was very literal, since we found out a few weeks ago that since we were the first family to receive the 3D LiHD suite, and we lived in NJ, about an hour away from the Panasonic US headquarters, we were asked if we'd be willing to talk to some Panasonic employees about our experiences so far. Included in this group was an executive director (as in board of directors) from Panasonic, Japan, and the VP of the Panasonic Networking group, one of the product managers, and our own LiHD Community Manager, Yessica!

We were extremely honored, of course, and had the pleasure of meeting these Panasonic reps and talk to them about our products, how we use them, what we'd like to see, what we'd like to see different, etc. yesterday. I'd also been learning some basic Japanese greetings