IFA 2005: Europe goes high def
Europe’s top consumer electronics show IFA kicks off in Berlin today, and you can bet that HDTV will be very high up on most manufacturers’ agendas. We’ll be delivering all the news from Berlin as it happens, but here's what we know so far.
Panasonic – Will almost certainly unveil new HD ready TVs during a key note speech by top exec Mr Otsubo.
Samsung – Although it will be majoring on small digital TV devices Samsung is promising plenty of big screen high def action. Look out for contenders for the world’s biggest LCD and plasma sets.
Sharp - We’d put our money on a European debut for its 65inch LCD TV – the world's biggest apparently - which will go on sale in the UK next year.
Blu-ray vs HD-DVD – In a re-run of IFA 1997, where Tosh and Sony battled it out to establish a DVD format, this year the pair will be pushing their DVD successors in HD DVD (Tosh) and Blu-ray (loads of others). Both are designed to offer the kind of storage capacity that will enable consumers to record high definition TV.
