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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 this end, the company has ceased to manufacture sets at the factory, and is now using it as a warehouse. Funai’s … Read more
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
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 Monitor Vol 21 No 14). New MD Mark H
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
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
Samsung Display had a private area in Hall 14 and we went around to see the range of products. Showing where the priorities lie for the local sales people in the Display business, we were first shown to the company’s 2,500 and 5,000 cd/m
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
We talked to Simon Lucas and Phil Jones, manufacturing director and managing director of Tongfang’s new TV assembly plant in Wales (Display Monitor Vol 21 Nos 3 & 30). Seiki TVs for the UK and mainland Europe are built here. The UK is the main market, but TVs have also been sold to France, Germany … Read more
Toshiba had its usual stand but now that we’re covering both mobile and large displays, practically everything that the firm was showing was of interest – we were in the hall around 90 minutes, even though we didn’t spend a huge time on any single product! We first looked around the TVs where the Cevo … Read more
The 3D Innovation Center (3D IC) is a facility in Berlin that came out of the Fraunhofer organisation and held an event to celebrate its second birthday. This was the first time that we had been able to attend an event at the facility, which was intended to be a central location for companies that … Read more
Always a big event at IFA, Showstoppers this year was again a great place to go for food, drink and networking. Oh, and a few new products! The showcase takes place in Hall 15 of Messe Berlin and remained a busy throng up to and past 11pm. Launching a new processor platform at IFA called … Read more
IFA 2014 was the show’s 90th anniversary. The total area of the event was up 3% from 2013, with the adoption of the CityCube Berlin; an expansion that added an extra 12,000m
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