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IFA 2008 - Toshiba, Samsung and LG stands

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Old 06-09-2008, 12:22 PM   #1
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IFA 2008 - Toshiba, Samsung and LG stands

Phil Hinton brings us his last report from the IFA show floor. We take a look at the XDE DVD player from Toshiba, Samsung's world first TVs and their new BD-P2500 Blu-ray player, and finish with the PG7000 plasma from LG as well as a new projector and Blu-ray player from the company.

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Re: IFA 2008 - Toshiba, Samsung and LG stands

Please leave us your feedback of our coverage of IFA, what you liked and what you think we can do better for future shows such as CES.
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Re: IFA 2008 - Toshiba, Samsung and LG stands

Cheers Phil very professional as per usual.
Thanks for explaining "clearly" the faults with the XDE as it's sometimes hard to get the proper facts.....well done.
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Re: IFA 2008 - Toshiba, Samsung and LG stands

thanks to phil and all involved in the IFA coverage, i really enjoyed them...

my only grumble is that the vids have made me want a new screen and BD player!!!

excellent stuff


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Re: IFA 2008 - Toshiba, Samsung and LG stands

Many thanks Phil nice to see all the new stuff,

Keep up the excellent work,

P.S. Loved the "60" LG Plasma.
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Re: IFA 2008 - Toshiba, Samsung and LG stands

You know you're going to upset the Sony fanboys by saying the A786 has RGB LED's and DNLA don't you? lol

I thought it was confirmed that it had white LED's and no DNLA, if so sticker right the red, green and blue must be very very misleading... and will catch quite a few people out.
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Re: IFA 2008 - Toshiba, Samsung and LG stands

I also thinking this TV has white LEDs but I would be very happy if there were RGB LEDs.

Have anyone of you more information about the technique?

(Maybe the reporter has drinking to much German "Bier". )
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Re: IFA 2008 - Toshiba, Samsung and LG stands

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You know you're going to upset the Sony fanboys by saying the A786 has RGB LED's and DNLA don't you? lol

I thought it was confirmed that it had white LED's and no DNLA, if so sticker right the red, green and blue must be very very misleading... and will catch quite a few people out.
Was going on the information supplied on the stand (which is all you can do at these shows) if that is the case then apologies if I have quoted items that are not there, just using the specs supplied with each TV on the stand.

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Re: IFA 2008 - Toshiba, Samsung and LG stands

One thing I did notice, in the part with the XDE, the contrast on those Toshiba Tv's really does quite poor.
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One thing I did notice, in the part with the XDE, the contrast on those Toshiba Tv's really does quite poor.
Yeah nothing I can do about that, as its how they were demonstarting the product.
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Re: IFA 2008 - Toshiba, Samsung and LG stands

Is Phil going to CEATEC?
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