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Android tablets are for media consumption? Panasonic thinks so - and that they'll make rather good TV accessories too. Today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the Japanese giant showed off a "prototype tablet-type terminal", one of a family of touchscreen gadgets - screen sizes run from four to ten inches - that'll go …

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  1. Bilgepipe

    Why?

    "All of these applications can, of course, be run on any tablet, whatever it's OS...not as a secondary computer a la the iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab or the vast array of Android tablets set to be announced this week, but as an accessory for your telly."

    So why not just get a real tablet rather than this limited, TV-specific one?

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  2. Tom_

    Could be good

    If it also works as a remote control for the TV and controls your DVR, so you can view the EPG, etc. without having to overlay it on the TV show you're currently viewing.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Love the TV Social Media Combo!

    There are so many cool things happening right now with TV and social media and I think this product is great at combining the two. People are looking for more ways to engage with others while watching their favorite programs and this device does a great job at honing in on that. Interactive entertainment appears to be a big wave that many software developers, and now device developers, are catching. Here is a great article by Fast Company (http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/151/i-want-my-twitter-tv.html) that highlights one company that is taking advantage of the social media TV mash-up. Apps such as Tweex (http://tweex.tv) is another good example.

    I look forward to seeing how this device fairs in the market.

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