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Fogg Clarifies Mobile Mistakes

by Bob Raikes

Ian Fogg is originally from the cable TV business, but now looks at the mobile industry for IHS. He gave a high bandwidth talk that started by looking at the mistakes that had been …

The Panel Market is Still Developing says Tamura

by Bob Raikes

Tamura-san is from IHS and looked at the development of the panel industry. China is the biggest market for TVs (23% of global) and phones (33% of global) and that means that success in …

Gray Summarises CE Market Developments

by Bob Raikes

Paul Gray of IHS then gave a summary of the market as he sees it. He said that the current situation looks like the “Triumph of the generalist” – the general purpose smartphone is …

China is More than Just a Factory

by Bob Raikes

Paul Gray opened the sixth IHS (used to be DisplaySearch) conference and there was a message of support from Dirk Koslowski of IFA. Morrod of IHSThe first keynote was from Tom Morrod whose topic …

Euronics Tries to Keep Smiling!

by Bob Raikes

Euronics held its usual press event at the show and it’s always interesting to hear a retailer’s point of view. John Olsen from the company said it has announcements including a new Gulf partner, …

LG Displays Gives Impressive Keynote

by Bob Raikes

The main IFA keynote was given by Sang Beom Han, President and CEO of LG Display whose talk was entitled “How Displays Will Change Your Life”. We were pleased to see displays as a …

ADB Pivots to Software

by Bob Raikes

ADB is a company we like to visit at IBC as it is often a pioneer in technologies. The company has performed something of a pivot, by moving away from making STBs and hardware …

Panasonic’s OLED TV is a Success for LG Display

by Bob Raikes

At this year’s IFA show in Berlin (think CES for Europe), one of the big stories was the arrival of the first commercial OLED TV from Panasonic. Panasonic’s curved OLED has a lot of …

Panasonic Joins the Exclusive OLED TV Club

by Bob Raikes

The Panasonic press event took place in part of its (large) booth. The first speaker was the Panasonic Europe Chairman and CEO, Laurent Abadie and he said that Panasonic’s focus is on “smarter living” …

Acer Looks to Gamers, Chromebooks and “PC Phone”

by Bob Raikes

Acer had a bigger than usual conference that was full with press. Clearly, the difficult financial times have not stopped the company from trying to market its message! Jason Chen, who clearly sees himself …

Intel Launches Skylake 6th Gen at IFA

by Bob Raikes

The first keynote of IFA was by Intel and the firm started with a video highlighting the latest generation of PCs with “6th generation” Core processors (Skylake). The first speaker was Kirk Skaugen, head …

IFA Press Conference

by Bob Raikes

During the first press day, the IFA organisers gave their traditional update on the market and the fair. This year there were a record number of exhibitors, 1,645, and they took floor space of …