Panasonic Plasmas Getting Thinner, Greener

Reuters is out with a story today from Panasonic, which in April will launch a new line of plasma TVs in Japan that are much thinner than the company's standard plasmas and will require only half as much energy to operate. The skinny, green plasmas will hit U.S. store shelves sometime this summer. In Japan the 50-inch model will set you back a cool 600,000 yen, which sounds only slightly better in greenbacks -- $6,685.