IFA 2014

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Haier’s New TV Will be a Doctor on Your Wall

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Haier unveiled a range of new products and – as always – concepts for the future. The company has shown wirelessly-powered and thought-controlled TVs in the past; this year, it demonstrated the U9000 modular …

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Dolby Hides Away

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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 …

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Lenovo Gets Tiny

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Lenovo was a bit frustrated at the show. The company had held a press event on the Thursday, but because of the Intel keynote on Friday, could not announce that new systems used the …

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E Ink Positive About Pricing Labels

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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 …

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LG Moves Past P-OLED Problems

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LG is obviously deeply committed to OLED TVs, but our first stop on the stand was its OLED smartwatch, the G Watch R. Attracting a lot of attention from consumers, the product is the …

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Epson is Finished With 720p

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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 …

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Medion Impresses With Specs and Price

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Medion is the consumer brand of Lenovo. This year it was showing several notebook/tablet hybrids designed for mobile and extended use, in the Akoya range. However, our eyes were first caught by the larger …

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IFA Says Consumers Willing to Buy

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IFA kicks off with a press event (although to try to get them all in, several are held before this one!). The format is much the same each year, so we’ve cut our report …

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Funai Outsources Production to Asia

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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 …

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Portrait Displays Pushing Technicolor Certification

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We met with Portrait Displays’ Martin Fishman to catch up on the latest developments in the Technicolor certification programme. Toshiba had highlighted to us that it is now shipping products and the company told …

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Acer Kicks off IFA in Bullish Mode

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Acer was the first press conference and CEO Jason Chen started by saying that sales in Germany were double in Q2 2014 and in Austria, it was closer to 3X business. Chen said that …

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Secret of Hisense’s ULED Tech is Revealed

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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 …

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