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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 was unexpected, but the show was well attended. Highlights or key points from the show were that * OLED is almost … Read more
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 told CNet that the technology will begin to be licensed in spring or summer next year, with players arriving on the … Read more
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
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 using a Samsung Display panel for this TV, which was only a prototype. Another curved set was a 65″ LCD model, … Read more
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 displays in the demonstration: the most impressive, of course, was the large Dolby professional monitor which the company has been selling … Read more
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 one of the Sony wearables that was announced during the company’s press event, where the battery life of three days was … Read more
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 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
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