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IFA – Viewers Will Get it All

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IFA was, well, IFA. There was not much that was radically new or different this year, apart from the huge new CityCube hall that Samsung occupied. In terms of technology, there was little that …

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BDA Pushes Adoption of New Display Technologies

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We knew it was coming. The Blu-ray Disc Association announced at IFA that it was ‘most of the way done’ with defining a specification enabling the format to handle UltraHD imagery. Chairman Victor Matsuda …

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Cambrios Still on a Rising Wave

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We met with John LeMoncheck, CEO of Cambrios and, as he was at CES earlier in the year, he was very positive about the developments in the Cambrios ClearOhm silver nanowire developments. The company …

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Changhong Shocks With OLED Price

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China’s Changhong was among the many companies showing curved and UltraHD sets and was one of the few to be demonstrating a 105″ model. We have it on good authority that the company is …

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Dolby Hides Away

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We dodged out of the fairground for a meeting at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel with Dolby, where the company had a demonstration of its Dolby Vision HDR and wide gamut technology. There were four …

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E Ink Positive About Pricing Labels

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We met with E Ink in the Reseller area, where they had a table. The company was in a positive mood as Sony had announced that one of its displays was being used in …

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Epson is Finished With 720p

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Expanding its home theatre segment, Epson showed off three new 3LCD projectors, and had some interesting news ahead of Cedia 2014. Replacing the TW550 (Display Monitor Vol 18 No 15), the EH-TW570 is brighter …

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Funai Outsources Production to Asia

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Funai Electric has been experiencing problems selling TVs produced at its factory in Poland into the European market. Europe is a challenging TV market, as many countries have different requirements and licensing laws. To …

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Secret of Hisense’s ULED Tech is Revealed

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Hisense had taken a new location in hall 6.2 this year, next to new partner Loewe. The company was putting its more prominent stand to good use, and its press conference – the company’s …

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Loewe Stays On-Course Through Thick and (Very) Thin

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Anyone would agree that Loewe has had a turbulent year, which we are sure the company was happy to see an end to when it was acquired by Stargate Capital GmbH in April (Display …

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Our LCD Will Compete With Plasma, Says Panasonic

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In previous years, we have done some work for Panasonic before IFA, preparing talks and white papers on new features of their TVs. Not this year, however, so we were looking forward to the …

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Philips Tempts Then Disappoints

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Despite arriving 10 minutes late to the Philips conference (Samsung overran), we only missed some appliance talk. The conference itself was quite light on display-related discussions, although there were certainly more than we’d seen …

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