The Blue Room at IFA 2010
In our mission to inform our colleagues in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ about developments in consumer technology and how these will potentially affect how our output is consumed we place great stock in observing year-on-year trends at events such as the , held each January in Las Vegas.
From the Blue Room's Twitter: "#IFA2010 One of the many specs-free 3D Displays at IFA, this from Vestel. Perhaps 3-5 years away?"
The Blue Room last visited IFA some three years ago when it was a relatively modest affair and as per previous experience we found that the general attitude amongst exhibitors in respect of the UK market was largely one of indifference or at best ignorance.
How things have changed.
IFA 2010 is expanding on a scale to compete with CES with a confidence and enthusiasm to mark this, its 50th year. The profile and importance of the event was reinforced in by the presence of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel officially declaring the show open, as well as the prominence being given to the event in the German media. A more visible touch is the large bow tied to the radio mast in the middle of the ICC exhibition complex
From the Blue Room's Twitter: "The LG 31" OLED display is probably the most impressive thing we've seen at IFA so far - quite stunning."
Focussing on our primary interest for being at IFA we have identified a number of trends that we think are of interest:
- Most notably : TVs, Projectors and Laptops
- A surprising number of glasses-free (auto stereoscopic) 3D displays in evidence albeit in prototype form and realistically 3-5 years away from production
- An explosion in the number of Tablet PC/Apple iPad clone devices
- Numerous examples of all-in-one computing devices where the processor and storage are built in to the display screen
- The Google Android OS appearing on a wide range of TV sets powering the applications available as a result of the growth in IP connectivity
- As predicted, e-Reader devices becoming cheaper, sometimes at the cost of functionality such as Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity but as a result seeking to occupy a different market space to the Tablet/iPad class of product.
From the point of view of specific products the ones that stand out for us are:
- What Panasonic claim to be the , the VW-CLT1
- The stunning 31" OLED display from LG (watch the
- The Samsung Galaxy Tab device, possibly generating more interest than anything else we saw
We hope to get our hands on some of these new devices over the next few months in order to study their potential impact for our services.
If you'd like to see more from IFA 2010 you can , and as ´óÏó´«Ã½BlueRoom
Roland Allen and Richard Robbins.
Comment number 1.
At 6th Sep 2010, Trev wrote:What is the point of sending people to Las Vegas at licence payers expense while the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is determined to continue transmitting the lowest quality HD picture in the UK. The same applies to radio with the awfull DAB system. Danielle Nagler the so called head of ´óÏó´«Ã½ 3D has also made it clear that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ has no plans for transmiting 3D in the UK. It must be fun for ´óÏó´«Ã½ employees to play with all these new gadgets but what is the point when the ´óÏó´«Ã½ has no intention of providing the benifits to licence payers.
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At 6th Sep 2010, Nick Reynolds wrote:trevor - you are off topic. Please stay on topic.
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At 6th Sep 2010, cping500 wrote:I hope it will work on Opera Mini on my phone.(Nokia Xpress Music
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At 7th Sep 2010, genestr wrote:when is it?
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