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Toshiba was at IFA to describe its new deal with Vestel (Vestel Wins Toshiba Brand for TV in Europe) and to show off the 2017 TV line, which should be ready by Q2’17. Planned series include the 36 series (FHD in 32, 40, 43 and 49”), 66 series (UHD in 32, 40, 43 and 49”) … Read more
Vestel, the big Turkish TV brand and OEM supplier for Europe, used IFA to unveil plans to offer UltraHD HDR OLED TVs. The first sets at 55” and 65” should be ready for the market before the end of the year. The TVs will use panels from LG Display and will feature HDR10 compatibility. Support … Read more
We stopped by the Changhong at IFA. We saw a lot of TVs, most of which were previously shown at CES 2016. This includes a line of curved OLED 65” HDR TVs that looked quite good and a lot of LCD TVs. New at IFA is a 75” LCD HDR 4K TV. It offers HDR10 … Read more
We don’t normally bring out a Display Daily at the weekend, but we thought you’d appreciate a ‘heads up’ on a big story that’s causing a buzz among those ‘in the loop’ at IFA. You may have seen the news that Hanjin Shipping of Korea went into bankruptcy a couple of days ago. So what … Read more
JVC used IFA to launch its newest home theater projector with a native 4K (4096 x 2160) resolution set of D-ILA imagers. These imagers are new too at only 0.69″ in diagonal – that’s a tiny 3.8 micron pixel pitch. This appears to be the densest imager that JVC has made to date. Called the … Read more
The HbbTV Association is merging with the Smart TV Alliance so that applications in the future will be able to use a single architecture. The two groups have started technical collaboration and will merge the two administrative organisations. These platforms sit on top of the smart TV operating systems and news has surfaced of the … Read more
Alcatel, now owned by TCL of China, is keen on VR and has multiple solutions. First, the company is supplying a ‘smartphone add-on’ (think Gear VR) headset for free with its Idol 4S phone. Our attention was drawn to a separate development of a VR headset, the Alcatel Vision, that does not need a display … Read more
The press day at CES is 1 day long – at IFA it’s two days. Bob Raikes and I attended this year and frankly, it is too much and the value is marginal. And even if something useful is revealed, it is high level or a summary of what is being shown in the booth. … Read more
Absen is showing a new LED system for indoor rental applications at a special event in Rüsselsheim, Germany on the 20th and 21st of September. The new system, called the M2.9 is based on a 2.97mm LED configuration that uses a new locking and releasing system which follows a “One Action” principle. Weighing 7.6kg, this … Read more
Absen, a world leading manufacturer of LED solutions for the corporate, sports, retail, advertising and rental industries, will be presenting a new revolutionary indoor rental LED display solution on the 20th and 21st of September 2016 in their European headquarters (Rüsselsheim, Germany). In an unusual move for the company, two dedicated open days will be … Read more
LG Electronics (LG) is welcoming visitors to its IFA 2016 exhibition booth with an awe-inspiring and immersive OLED Tunnel measuring a record-breaking 5m tall, 7.4m wide and 15m in length. A total of 216 separate 55-inch curved OLED signage displays were assembled to create the unique structure comprising of 447,897,600 – nearly half a billion … Read more
Rumours from the Android Police website have said that a new UltraHD Chromecast dongle (called Chromecast Plus or Ultra) and a new VR headset will be unveiled by Google on Oct 4th. There will also be new smartphones called Pixel and Pixel XL.
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