I have been scouting some shops in Bangalore to buy the P42V20 before it disappears, and I had got some interesting bit of information yesterday.
While the Panasonic showroom in Koramangala was only too happy to sell me the V20, the folks at Modern World, Domlur were quite uninterested. They only had the display piece to sell, and mentioned that they have not placed orders for the V20 for a while in anticipation of the 2011 models being released soon.
This sounded odd to me as the official showroom folks had told me that the V30 models will be launched only in July. So I asked the Modern World guy about the dates he had heard. He offered to talk to the official distributor in front of me for the exact dates.
According to this distributor, The V30 models are unlikely to be launched in India at all! The replacement of the V20 is being touted to be the U30. They are both supposed to have the same neopdp panel for which V20 was known for. The U30 is supposed to be launched next week.
Can someone independently confirm this? Indian Panasonic users are again being screwed by the company by being treated like a lesser region. Unless Panasonic launches better models here, how are they going to get the market which is determining which models are launched here? A chicken and egg problem.
So now I am completely confused. Should I buy the V20 while stocks last? Or shall I wait for a lot of reviews for the U30 to come in which actually confirms if it is short of any features of the V20. :sad:
While the Panasonic showroom in Koramangala was only too happy to sell me the V20, the folks at Modern World, Domlur were quite uninterested. They only had the display piece to sell, and mentioned that they have not placed orders for the V20 for a while in anticipation of the 2011 models being released soon.
This sounded odd to me as the official showroom folks had told me that the V30 models will be launched only in July. So I asked the Modern World guy about the dates he had heard. He offered to talk to the official distributor in front of me for the exact dates.
According to this distributor, The V30 models are unlikely to be launched in India at all! The replacement of the V20 is being touted to be the U30. They are both supposed to have the same neopdp panel for which V20 was known for. The U30 is supposed to be launched next week.
Can someone independently confirm this? Indian Panasonic users are again being screwed by the company by being treated like a lesser region. Unless Panasonic launches better models here, how are they going to get the market which is determining which models are launched here? A chicken and egg problem.
So now I am completely confused. Should I buy the V20 while stocks last? Or shall I wait for a lot of reviews for the U30 to come in which actually confirms if it is short of any features of the V20. :sad: