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Microsoft gave the second keynote of IFA and was represented by Nick Parker who is the VP responsible for consumer client devices at the firm. His talk started with the introduction video from IFA (also used for LG). Heithecker, Executive Director of IFA came on to talk about how many different computers there are at … Read more
We met with Victor Matsuda (Sony) and Marty Gordon (Philips, Hollywood) from the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) on the Philips booth where they started by acknowledging that the position for Blu-ray is now effectively to take advantage a window of opportunity that will, in the not too distant future, close. There is now an acceptance … Read more
Panasonic had its usual press event on its booth and Laurent Abadie, who seems to love the ‘show business’ aspects of his Panasonic Europe CEO position. Abadie started by saying that Panasonic is involved in every level of communications including physical communications and transport and he said that the firm expects partial autonomous driving by … Read more
Huawei gave a keynote and after an introduction when the IFA exec said that he had visited the Huawei HQ in China and that it is extremely impressive, Richard Yu of Huawei came on. He pointed out that the company introduced the first HiSilicon Kirin SoC with AI features at last year’s show and AI … Read more
TCL had a significant presence at IFA this year. It kicked off its presence with a ‘global’ press event that started with the inevitable noisy corporate video. TCL claims to be the #3 TV maker globally, now, with 13,173,307 sets sold in the first half of 2018, and is close to LG, so it hopes … Read more
Lenovo was showing its own brand, Medion and Motorola products on its booth. It has also started to develop smart home products. We started by looking at the X1 Extreme which is a 15.6″ Full HD/300 cd/m2/sRGB or UltraHD/400 cd/m2/AdobeRGB/Dolby Vision notebook. Up to now, the X1 range has been in the 14″ class. The … Read more
Panasonic has revealed its new Toughbook FZ-L1 fully rugged tablet. The device, which runs Android 8.1, powered by a Qualcomm 1.1GHz processor, features a 7″ IPS LCD display with Dragontrail Pro protected glass, a resolution of 1280 × 720 resolution and 294 pixels per inch. The screen features up to 10-finger multitouch, a rain mode … Read more
Dell showed its S2719DC which combines a glass LGP, DisplayHDR 600 and USB docking into a single monitor at the Showstoppers event, but the company also had a good presentation of its monitor range, and some display specialists, at IFA. (Just a Few Displays at Showstoppers) The new E series is at the bottom, right. … Read more
Optoma has a new DLP-based UST projector, the HD31UST, which has 3,400 lumens and FullHD resolution which can be displayed with a 100″ diagonal from just 30cm (throw ratio 0.25:1). Contrast is quoted at 28,000:1 and the lamp is a 240W unit. Features include vertical and horizontal keystone correction with corner distortion adjustment. There are … Read more
The four Taiwanese panel suppliers that we track saw a disappointing result last month with overall shipments of 91.458 million small and medium panels, down 20.6% MoM and 17.8% YoY. AU Optronics saw its August turnover rise 7.8% MoM to NT$27.81 billion ($903 million), although this was down 7.8% YoY. The company shipped 13.95 million … Read more
The four Taiwanese panel suppliers that we track saw an improvement last month with overall shipments of 21.31 million large panels, up 1% MoM and 4.3% YoY. AU Optronics saw its August turnover rise 7.8% MoM to NT$27.81 billion ($903 million), although this was down 7.8% YoY. The company shipped 10.04 million large panels, up … Read more
Pimax’s 8K headset entered mass production in July, following months of delays. The company now says that it is confident that all Kickstarter backers will receive their devices by the end of the year. However, any purchased eye-tracking modules and controllers for the device will not go out to backers until next year. At a … Read more
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