IFA 2015 – Page 2 – Display Daily

LG Displays Gives Impressive Keynote

by Bob Raikes

The main IFA keynote was given by Sang Beom Han, President and CEO of LG Display whose talk was entitled “How Displays Will Change Your Life”. We were pleased to see displays as a …

Panasonic’s OLED TV is a Success for LG Display

by Bob Raikes

At this year’s IFA show in Berlin (think CES for Europe), one of the big stories was the arrival of the first commercial OLED TV from Panasonic. Panasonic’s curved OLED has a lot of …

TCL Invests in Colour and Contrast

by Tom Allen

With Toshiba moving to Hall 12, TCL had more room at this year’s show – its stand had been doubled in size, to 1,700m². With the size of the TVs the company was showing, …

JVC Steals Show With Automotive Entry

by Tom Allen

JVC Kenwood does not normally have new display products at IFA, instead focusing on audio, so we were pleasantly surprised to find enough interesting topics to take an hour of our time! The flagship …

Sharp is Too Private

by Tom Allen

Sharp’s presence this year was extremely disappointing. Although the stand was quite large, and in a central location in Hall 6, most of it was private. There was no-one around to answer questions, and …

Seiki Wants to Stir Up Existing Markets

by Tom Allen

Tongfang Global is the Chinese company that owns the Seiki and Orion TV brands – the former being the most well-known. As Seiki, the company launched what was at the time the world’s cheapest …

Parker Highlights the Windows 10 Wave

by Tom Allen

Microsoft’s keynote speech, by Nick Parker (corporate VP of the OEM division), was really just an excuse to show off the new Windows 10 devices that have been launched in recent months, as well …

Vestel Looks to Automotive and Better Pixels

by Tom Allen

Vestel is one of the world’s largest display makers, but most people visiting IFA will have never heard the name. This is because the majority of TVs and public displays made by the company …

Digital Focus is All About Cameras

by Tom Allen

Taking place in the Grand Hyatt Hotel again, Digital Focus is a press event that is – technically – not affiliated with IFA. Unlike Showstoppers, companies do not need to have space on the …

Panasonic Joins the Exclusive OLED TV Club

by Bob Raikes

The Panasonic press event took place in part of its (large) booth. The first speaker was the Panasonic Europe Chairman and CEO, Laurent Abadie and he said that Panasonic’s focus is on “smarter living” …

Acer Looks to Gamers, Chromebooks and “PC Phone”

by Bob Raikes

Acer had a bigger than usual conference that was full with press. Clearly, the difficult financial times have not stopped the company from trying to market its message! Jason Chen, who clearly sees himself …

Intel Launches Skylake 6th Gen at IFA

by Bob Raikes

The first keynote of IFA was by Intel and the firm started with a video highlighting the latest generation of PCs with “6th generation” Core processors (Skylake). The first speaker was Kirk Skaugen, head …