 | IFA - Blu-ray brings Hollywood to Berlin (ARNnet, 8/31/2006 10:46pm) |
| Key backers of the new Blu-ray Disc optical storage technology turned out in force at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin to announce a string of content and equipment offerings. ... (Read Full Article) |
| TV makers now flat out chasing the big picture (Stuff, 9/14/2005 3:06am) |
| High-definition television is the next big thing, reports Mary Anne Gill from Berlin. Two years ago, when the world's largest consumer electronics fair was held in Berlin, high-definition flat TV screens hardly rated a mention. ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Top consumer electronics show opens in Germany (Expatica, 9/02/2005 3:26pm) |
| BERLIN - Tomorrow's high-definition television (HDTV) sets are set to become the main computer running the household of the future, Japanese-based Panasonic said Friday at the start of the world's biggest consumer electronics show, IFA, in Berlin. ... (Read Full Article) |
| CyberLink Demos Blu-ray Burning and Playback with HP at IFA Berlin 2005 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 8/25/2005 7:56pm) |
| CyberLink Corp. , a world leader and pioneer in providing integrated solutions for the Digital Home, will showcase the latest Blu-ray Disc playback and burning support with HP and the Blu-ray Disc Association at IFA in Berlin, Germany from September 2-7. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Top CE Event IFA To Be Held Annually (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 10/26/2005 1:36pm) |
| In future Berlin can look forward to the IFA and to hosting a world-class trade show every year. Encouraged by a dynamic surge in Europe's CE market, European sales of 100 billion euros and double-digit growth, as well as outstanding results at the IFA 2005, the event's organisers Gesellschaft fuer Unterhaltungs- und Kommunikationselektronik and Messe Berlin have decided to expand the IFA ... (Read Full Article) |
| Taiwan Firms To Participate In Berlin Consumer Electronics Show (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News, 8/12/2005 10:21am) |
| A total of 150 companies from Taiwan will participate in the 2005 International Consumer Electronics Exhibition scheduled to be held at the Berlin Exhibition Grounds in the German capital Sept. 2-7. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Nero Software with Blu-ray Technology to Showcase at Philips Booth at IFA Show in Berlin (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 9/01/2005 12:04pm) |
| Nero, leaders in digital media technology, and Royal Philips Electronics, a world leader in optical storage and a founding member of the Blu-ray Disc Association, announced today that Philips will demonstrate the new Blu-ray optical disc format at IFA 2005, September 2 through 7 in Berlin, Germany. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Is It Time to Buy That 50-Inch Plasma TV? (RedNova, 11/20/2005 10:35pm) |
| By Keith Reed, The Boston Globe Nov. 20--Should you or shouldn't you this holiday season? New brands, deep discounts, and increased production are pushing prices of high-definition television sets even lower this year. ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Netflix to Jack Up Prices For Blu-ray Renters [NetFlix] (Gizmodo, 4/22/2008 12:15am) |
| What's the best way to punish the same early adopters that made your service a success? If you're Netflix, it's charging them extra for renting Blu-ray. CEO Reed Hastings justifies this action by... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Sony PS3 King of Netflix Viewership (High-Def Digest, 12/05/2012 5:30pm) |
| Oftentimes the PS3 even surpasses the PC in terms of "hours of Netflix enjoyment." A post on the PlayStation Blog revealed Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announcement of the PS3 as the dominant Netflix [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Hastings Wants End to HD War (HDBlog.net, 4/25/2006 12:43pm) |
| Netflix CEO Reed Hastings wants the format war between HD DVD and BD to end. He believes that it’s in the best interest of consumers that the war ends and that one format prevails. I don’t think anybody would disagree with him. But he thinks this could come about in this way:
In regard to the [...] ... (Read Full Article) |
| HD Really The Future of Gaming? (Slashdot, 3/17/2005 6:56pm) |
| Eurogamer.com has an editorial discussing the "HD Future", as revealed in the Microsoft Keynote at GDC. In the article, author Kristan Reed argues that while the crispness of the HD Living Room would be welcome, "using it as a hook to hang next gen console gaming on is misleading to say the least, and there are more than a few barriers to entry for the masses." (Read Full Article) |
 | Breaking News: Barbara Bel Geddes dead at 82 (TV Squad, 8/10/2005 8:52pm) |
| Filed under: Talent She played Miss Ellie on Dallas for many years. When she had a heart attack and was replaced by Donna Reed for several episodes, fans were up in arms. She died of lung cancer on Monday. Bob Thomas has a great (naturally) obituary of her at the link below. Read Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Ads by ... (Read Full Article) |
| Netflix: 6% of Subscribers Use Blu-ray (Format War Central, 10/21/2008 9:20am) |
| Netflix CEO Reed Hastings revealed today that less than 500,000 (roughly 6%) of Netflix users take advantage of their Blu -ray library. Speaking during a company earnings call, Mr. Hastings then went on to say he expects this number to rise as Blu-ray adoption increases.
Mr. Hastings also stated interest in bringing more Netflix “Watch now” [...] ... (Read Full Article) |
| Netflix CEO says Mac client and Blu-ray emphasis on the way (AfterDawn, 10/21/2008 3:12am) |
| Despite the spectre of a recession looming over the US economy, Netflix Founder, Chairman, and CEO Reed Hastings is confident about his company's position for the remainder of the year. Although he sees slower growth than last year he predicts that recent and future developments will continue to fuel profitability.
One of things Hastings spoke proudly about in a presentation that was part of t ... (Read Full Article) |
| IFA: Philips looks razor sharp (PC Advisor, 9/02/2005 10:57am) |
| If there's any truth to the saying "seeing is believing," Philips Electronicsâ gadget demonstration on Thursday at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin was something to see. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (No Title) (, 8/28/2007 5:09pm) |
| Visitors to the IFA consumer electronics show, which opens Friday in Berlin, will have ringside seats to the war over high-definition disc formats raging between Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'About Cherry' Dated for Blu-ray (High-Def Digest, 11/28/2012 5:00pm) |
| The drama screened at the Berlin International Film Festival will hit Blu-ray in January. In an early announcement to retailers, MPI has slated 'About Cherry' for Blu-ray on January 15. This bold [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Sony 4K 84-inch TV: Will it be at CEDIA? (CE Pro, 9/08/2012 12:02pm) |
| Sony debuted its 84-inch XBR-84X900 4K TV at IFA in Berlin. The TV features a 3840 x 2160 resolution, 3D capabilities, virtual 5.1 surround sound and [...] (Read Full Article) |
| High-definition TVs flock to a debutantes' ball (International Herald Tribune, 9/05/2005 2:38pm) |
| BERLIN: Frustrated by the sun glare on your 100-pound flat-panel TV screen? Tired of lugging that bulky slide projector out for family reunions? Estranged from your partner after fighting over the TV remote control? ... (Read Full Article) |
| (No Title) (, 8/31/2006 3:30pm) |
| BERLIN, BUSINESS WIRE -- Warner Home Video, which distributes the largest film library of any studio, announced today at IFA 2006 the company's plans to release more than 10 high definition Blu-ray Disc titles in European markets. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Blu-ray Disc Association to push format at IFA 2008 (HDTV UK, 7/18/2008 10:34am) |
| Unrivalled by HD DVD this year, the Blu-ray Disc Association has announced that it is to hold a press conference at the IFA Consumer Electronics Fair in Berlin this August... ... (Read Full Article) |
| Sky Unveils HD TV Plans (DVD-Recordable, 8/29/2005 10:19am) |
| Ahead of the DisplayForum HDTV (High Definition Television) 2005 conference being held in Berlin in September, Sky TV (UK) has announced provisional details of the channels in its HDTV launch line-up, scheduled for some time in 2006. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Mahler's 'Resurrection' Coming to HD DVD (High-Def Digest, 1/23/2008 11:00pm) |
| EuroArts has announced their debut US high-def release, 'Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 - Resurrection,' available on HD DVD this February. Conducted by famed maestro Pierre Boulez with the Berlin Philharmonic,... ... (Read Full Article) |
| High Definition TV starts slowly, makers hopeful (Reuters.co.uk, 9/01/2005 10:37am) |
| BERLIN (Reuters) - Armin Schoenfelder would love to buy a television set that is ready for high definition broadcasts but the German engineer wants to spend no more than 900 euros, while the sets start at twice his budget. ... (Read Full Article) |
| High Definition TV starts slowly, makers hopeful (San Diego Union-Tribune, 9/01/2005 4:33pm) |
| BERLIN, 3:30 a.m. Sept. 1: Armin Schoenfelder would love to buy a television set that is ready for high definition broadcasts but the German engineer wants to spend no more than 900 euros ($1,098), while the sets start at twice his budget. ... (Read Full Article) |
| HDTV - Subscriber Losses Drive Charter Stock to 52-Week Low (Broad Help, 11/09/2007 2:45pm) |
| HDTV - Subscriber Losses Drive Charter Stock to 52-Week Low By admin on November 9, ... - In addition, Charter is adding HDTV and VOD content, increased its high-speed Internet speeds to 16 Megabits ... up speed. Copyright © 2007 Reed Business Topics: HDTV | No Comments » ... (Read Full Article) |
| Digital dominates German consumer electronics show (IT World, 9/01/2005 2:13pm) |
| Visitors attending the IFA consumer electronics show, which begins Friday in Berlin, will have a tough time finding anything analog. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Electronics Fair Ends on a High (Deutsche Welle, 9/08/2005 10:14am) |
| The 45th International Consumer Electronics Fair (IFA) in Berlin has drawn to a close with experts predicting that the well-attended event would provide a much-needed boost to Germany's struggling electronics industry. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Premiere Launches HDTV Preview Channel via ASTRA (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 8/04/2005 7:13am) |
| High definition television or HDTV has been the word on almost everybody's lips for over a year now and will also be the main theme at the forthcoming IFA in Berlin, particularly in Hall 26, the exhibition hall for HDTV and home cinema. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | 'Easter Parade' Announced for Blu-ray (High-Def Digest, 10/25/2012 8:00pm) |
| Irving Berlin's 1948 musical heads to Blu-ray in February! In an early announcement to retailers, Warner Brothers is preparing 'Easter Parade' for Blu-ray on February 19. If you can't join 'em, beat [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Television's New Buzz Word (Deutsche Welle, 9/01/2005 4:59pm) |
| The buzz word coursing through the international electronics fair IFA in Berlin this weekend is HDTV. But though the high-tech television is exciting some companies, German broadcasters remain hesitant. ... (Read Full Article) |
| World Cup boost for new high-tech TV uptake (The Star Online, 9/19/2005 12:31am) |
| HIGH-DEFINITION television (HDTV), which offers five times better picture resolution than standard definition and arguably the most important development in TV technology in years, took the spotlight at the 2005 Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin, Germany. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Premiere sees 500,000 HDTV subscribers by 2008 (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News, 8/31/2005 2:40pm) |
| BERLIN, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Germany's only pay-TV broadcaster, Premiere , is launching three digital high definition television (HDTV) channels in November and aims to win 500,000 subscribers for the new service in three years. ... (Read Full Article) |
| High definition focus in Berlin (BBC News, 8/31/2006 7:36am) |
| High definition entertainment is expected to be the focus of the IFA consumer electronics show. ... (Read Full Article) |
| CyberLink Demos Blu-ray Burning & Playback (DesignTechnica, 8/26/2005 7:12pm) |
| CyberLink will showcase the latest Blu-ray Disc playback and burning support with HP and the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) at IFA in Berlin, Germany from September 2-7. ... (Read Full Article) |
| German firm launches HDTV move (CNN.com, 9/01/2005 12:50pm) |
| Premiere is hoping for a football-led HDTV boom. BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- German pay-TV broadcaster Premiere is to launch digital high-definition television (HDTV) channels in November as it tries to gain more revenues from its subscribers. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Philip's Simple, easy to use technology (The Star Online, 9/19/2005 12:30am) |
| IF Royal Philips Electronics' latest digital consumer electronics and technology developments showcased at the recently concluded International Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin, Germany, are anything to go by, the Dutch electronics giant is well on its way to fulfilling the promise it made a year ago with the launch of its Sense and Simplicity campaign. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Microsoft, Fujitsu Siemens collaborate on digital TV (IT World, 9/02/2005 2:58pm) |
| Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP Media Center Edition will include digital TV reception technology from Fujitsu Siemens Computers (Holding) BV under a deal announced Friday at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Samsung and Discovery start global HDTV alliance (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News, 9/01/2005 11:57am) |
| BERLIN, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics from South Korea and U.S.-based cable TV company Discovery Communications said on Thursday they had started a global partnership to market high definition television (HDTV). ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Electronics Fair Opens Doors in Berlin (Deutsche Welle, 9/02/2005 8:59am) |
| Over 100,000 visitors are expected to stream to Berlin’s International Consumer Electronics Fair which opens on Friday. The weeklong show aims to remain the world's most important platform for consumer electronics. ... (Read Full Article) |
| HDTV star of IFA consumer electronics show (Expatica, 8/30/2005 2:57pm) |
| BERLIN - High-definition television (HDTV) will be the star of this year's IFA consumer electronics fair, with industry experts predicting Tuesday that introduction of the technology in Europe could create as big a sales boom as colour TV did in the late 1960s. ... (Read Full Article) |
| First Toshiba SED TVs to have 50-inch diagonals (Digi Times, 9/12/2005 4:19am) |
| At the recently ended Internationale Funkaustellung (IFA) 2005 show in Berlin, Toshiba provided another glimpse into its surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) TV technology, with the company stating the SED flat panel TV will support full HDTV resolution (1,920×1,080 pixels), while adding that the first SED panels to hit the market will have a 50-inch diagonal. ... (Read Full Article) |
| A World First at the IFA: Live 3D TV Without Glasses (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, 9/01/2005 3:04pm) |
| Visitors at this year's IFA in Berlin will for the first time ever be able to experience live content streamed in a glasses-free, three-dimensional television format. Newsight GmbH has together with companies Grundig and 3D Image Processing succeeded in capturing live video and streaming it through an autostereoscopic 3D display system in real time whereas prior 3D content had been limited to ... (Read Full Article) |
| Digital dominates German consumer electronics show (MacCentral via Yahoo! News, 9/01/2005 1:49pm) |
| Visitors attending the IFA consumer electronics show, which begins Friday in Berlin, will have a tough time finding anything analog. Digital technology will dominate nearly every gadget on display, from the latest generation of LCD (liquid crystal display) and plasma screens to new high-definition TV sets, mobile TV phones and super multiformat HD-DVD recorders. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Experience Home Cinema with Epson (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 8/31/2005 1:20pm) |
| The home cinema - compact and small, in highest quality and with state-of-the-art technology - this is the central topic for Epson at the IFA in Berlin. In hall 26, the HDTV hall, stand 118 Epson presents the state-of-the-art 3LCD technology for home cinema as well as the latest projector range from 2 to 7 September 2005. ... (Read Full Article) |
| Philips CE: On a journey of transformation to deliver the true consumer experience (Manila Bulletin, 9/25/2005 2:44pm) |
| BERLIN Philips Consumer Electronics, a division of Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands, one of the world s biggest electronics companies and the largest consumer electronics firm in Europe, is continuing its quest in reinventing the world of consumer electronics (CE) through its Sense and Simplicity global campaign, that aims to bring technology at the heart of the consumer experience. ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Panasonic Shows Off 103-inch Glasses-Free 3D Plasma HDTV (Big Picture Big Sound, 8/30/2012 7:09pm) |
| The world's largest glasses-free 3D TV is currently stunning crowds at Berlin's IFA [...] (Read Full Article) |
| Netflix CEO Hastings speaks about YouTube, iPhone, Xbox 360 (AfterDawn, 9/23/2009 4:09am) |
During an interview with Reuters, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings spoke out about the future of the physical DVD, as well as Netflix's plans for the iPhone, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and possible competition from YouTube
The interview in its entirety:
Reuters: What will Netflix subscribers gain from the improvements in the recommendation system?
Hastings: ItÂ’s doubling the quality of our movie recommendation and that helps our subscribers get more enjoyment from movies. Because more often they love the movie they watch. More often the movies recommended will will turn out to be movies that you love. If you watch a couple of movies and donÂ’t like many, you start to watch (sports and other programming). If every movie is incredible, you start to watch more.
Reuters: Netflix video streams on MicrosoftÂ’s Xbox Live system. What about the PS3 and Wii?
Hastings: Eventually we want to be on all the game consoles, all the Blu-ray players, all the Internet TVs. So we are working in parallel with all of those efforts. Currently our Xbox deal is exclusive and we havenÂ’t characterized it more than that.
Reuters: Any plans to work in partnership with Apple and the iPhone?
Hastings: itÂ’s something thatÂ’s likely to come over time. But nothing in the short term. (With) movie watching, we are not focused on mobile yet, but (instead) on the TV, on Blu-ray and on the video game consoles. We will get to mobile eventually, including the iPhone.
Reuters: What of YoutubeÂ’s potential movie service?
Hastings: I think there will be a lot of competition in this market: Hulu, Apple, Amazon, Youtube, Blockbuster. Internet video is a huge opportunity. And there will be a lot of people engaged, and that is going to be great for the consumer. All of us are going to innovate and compete with each other and provide more and more value to the consumer.
Reuters: How far along are we on the transition to all digital video watching?
Hastings: There will be people doing DVD-by-mail in 15 or 20 years, so I think DVD will last a long time. Our best guess is that DVD will peak for us in 5 or so years. But it is continuing to grow. And the streaming is exploding. So we are getting nice growth in the DVD side and huge growth on the streaming side.
Reuters: What do you make of BlockbusterÂ’s store closing plan?
Hastings: Blockbuster and Redbox really compete on doing the inexpensive new releases, and we are much more the streaming and the catalog. Their closings donÂ’t really benefit us. It will benefit Redbox more than it does us.
Reuters: Have you been approached about an acquisition or partnership?
Hastings: We donÂ’t comment and any acquisition prospects.Permalink | Comments
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| NEWS: Samsung Blu-ray goes YouTube (Pocket-lint, 9/03/2009 10:16am) |
Clearly worried the Blu-ray still not enough
Samsung has announced that going forward all its Blu-ray products will come with YouTube support as it continues to try and convince people to embrace the HD format.
With the new service, available from 3rd September, consumers can also enjoy video clips from YouTube on their TV screen. The YouTube service features a variety of video clips, including the most popular or highly rated videos and allows for video search through a mobile phone-like on-screen key pad, says the company.
The news, announced at IFA in Berlin, Germany, comes as the company announcing a range of Blu-ray players including a Blu-ray Soundbar, the BD Crystal Surround AirTrack, for people looking to de-clutter their home theatre/cinema experience.
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| NEWS: Philips BDP7500s and 9500 Blu-ray players get colourful (Pocket-lint, 9/03/2009 10:47am) |
New players with all the usual bells and whistles
Philips has announced two new Blu-ray players at IFA in Berlin as it continues to push ahead with the format that has trebled in popularity in the last year.
The new BDP7500 will be housed in an "real" aluminum (we not sure what fake aluminum is) and offer full HD 1080p at 24 fps for cinema-like images.
The players will also get DivX Ultra for enhanced playback of DivX media files, DVD video upscaling to 1080p via HDMI for near-HD images, and Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA for HD 7.1 surround sound. BD-Live (Profile 2.0), and USB drive connectivity complete the package.
A rather niche technology also included is subtitle shift allowing you to change the location of the subtitles on screen.
The players themselves will come with touch sensitive controls and for the design conscious three different colours; blue, red and black.
No word on pricing, but expect the devices to hit the UK early next year.
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