Live From CES: Unshackled From a Tuner, Wireless Panasonic Plasma TV Is Just 1" Thick

Today Panasonic showed off a new television that is really really skinny ("flat-out skinny" might be more appropriate): the 54-inch TC-P54Z1 is just 1 inch thick, which beats out even the thinnest LCD screens on the market. The key to making this all work is that Panasonic pulled the tuner out of the TV entirely and moved it into a separate box, which transmits the full, uncompressed 1080p HD signal to the screen using a proprietary format called (cleverly) WirelessHD. This frees up a lot of room on the display, which Panasonic's taken full advantage of. Funny to think that in an era when Internet is converging like mad with TVs, here's one TV that's diverging from itself. Beyond the wow factor of having a really skinny screen and the ability to hang the thing on your wall relatively easily (it's 67 pounds, which is pretty good for that size), ...