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Samsung Brings B2B to Consumer Show

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Samsung Mobile’s press event, where the Note 4, Note Edge and Gear VR were announced, took place the day before Samsung Electronics’ event. We couldn’t make it, unfortunately, but look for more information in …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartwatches| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

TV Makers Promote “Feature Desperation”

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The annual IFA conference on TV that is run by DisplaySearch and IFA took place in the new CityCube. A representative of IFA welcomed delegates and Paul Gray of DisplaySearch introduced the agenda. The …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| NPD DisplaySearch| NPD IFA Conference 2014| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Loewe Stays On-Course Through Thick and (Very) Thin

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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 …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

Sony is Committed to ‘Kando’

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Kaz Hirai, president of Sony, kicked off the Sony press event. After the usual corporate ‘gush’, he talked about the concept of ‘kando’ – or ‘Wow experiences’. Looking back to Hirai’s keynote at CES …

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Hsieh Sees State of the Supply Chain

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David Hsieh looks after the Chinese market for DisplaySearch and is also responsible for the panel supply data. Hsieh is always an interesting speaker and he started by talking about “Smart Displays”. Hsieh defined …

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Our LCD Will Compete With Plasma, Says Panasonic

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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 …

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Vestel Will Feed UltraHD TVs Through Own STB

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IFA, as a consumer electronics show, has always been an odd place for Vestel to exhibit, as the only products on display are OEM items, which may not even come to market. The company …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vestel| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

Panel Session Debates Quality and Containers

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Following the talks by Semenza and Hsieh, there was a panel session that was introduced by Paul Gray who asked, “Why UltraHD?” Looking at TV by region: * China – there is no clear …

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Philips Tempts Then Disappoints

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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 …

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The Market for Wearables

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Paul Gray talked about wearable electronics. Until the first world war, watches were kept in the pocket, and wrist watches were seen as “effeminate”. However, the need for accurate time keeping during the war …

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Samsung Display Hides Away

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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 …

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QD Vision Bullish on TCL Demo

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QD Vision was at IFA on the booth of one of its customers, TCL of China. TCL was showing a 55″ prototype TV using the QD Vision technology to give >100% NTSC colour gamut …

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