Quite upset by today electronics quality. I'm an electronic engineer who worked in panasonic for 5 years, recently switch to UK based vacuum cleaner company. As compare between Japanese and EU consumer product, i just have to say the part quality of the Japanese consumer device nowadays is pathetic, the QC, production quality is good, but the problem lies on the part itself. Panasonic is a struggle giant (although the best among the struggle giants in Japan), the main activity is VE for them, that's why the electronic component they used is mostly a dirt cheap low quality electronic part sourced from China. Although they did alot of accelerate reliability test during design stage, but still the real time degradation is very difficult to predict, that's why you will see alot of 'claimed' Japanese technology failed after short period.

From the outsider they see Panasonic is good and reliable brand, from an insider point of view, i actually not really confident with it.