Matsushita Electric Industrial Company employee Kazumi Tamamoto demonstrates a new model of DVD player A-450 at a news conference in Tokyo September 29. Japan's Matsushita, makes of Panasonic products, launched three types of the new DVA players featuring Dolby Digital decoder for movie surround sound, and advanced karaoke functions. The three new-model DVD players, DVD-A350, A450 and K500 will go on sale from early November with prices ranging from 94,000 yen ($US774 ) to 110,000 yen ($US917).