IFA 2014 – Page 3 – Display Daily

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

TCL Uses HDR and Wide Gamuts to Support LCD

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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? …

Wearables Panel Session

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Simon Forrest from Imagination, Ruth Hutchinson from Fitbug and Ulrich Schulze-Althoff from Medisana joined the panel session on wearables. Simon Forrest is from Imagination Technologies which believes it has lots of the elements needed …

Tongfang Has High Hopes for Welsh Plant

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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 …

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There’s a Sparkle at IFA…

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We’re not talking metaphorically, here – Philips really did make the walls glow. But more on that later…IFA, so far, has been the normal rush of meetings, press events and elbow work (to get …

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Toshiba Keeps us Busy

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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, …

Intel E_phasis is on Power

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(The headline is not a mistake – Intel put posters everywhere showing words with the “m” missing. Or should that be _issing?) The Intel press event started with a video celebrating the German world …