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Cambrios Still on a Rising Wave

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 has opened an office in Korea to complement its offices in Japan and China. Additional investment has come in from Samsung. … Read more

Epson is Finished With 720p

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 (3,000 lumens), with a higher contrast ratio (15,000:1) and a 3D mode. The gaming mode, which optimises colour settings, and the … Read more

Funai Outsources Production to Asia

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 this end, the company has ceased to manufacture sets at the factory, and is now using it as a warehouse. Funai’s … Read more

Secret of Hisense’s ULED Tech is Revealed

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 first international one in Berlin – was very busy. EVP Lan Lin discussed the recent history of Hisense. 45 years since … Read more

Our LCD Will Compete With Plasma, Says Panasonic

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 Panasonic press event as there was the potential for some genuine surprises. As usual Laurent Abadie, chairman and CEO of Panasonic … Read more

Philips Tempts Then Disappoints

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 at Panasonic or Sony the day before! Wiebo Vaartjes, CEO of Philips Consumer Lifestyle, was on-stage discussing the company’s audio brands … Read more

TCL Uses HDR and Wide Gamuts to Support LCD

TCL might be dabbling with OLED technology, but – following the tenet of ‘anything you can do, I can do better’ – is putting most of its effort into LCD TVs. How, you ask? Using QD Vision’s quantum dot (QD) optical components, aka Color IQ, which raise display colour gamuts to 100% NTSC. Matt Mazzuchi, … Read more