LCD displays

Sharp and Samsung have the best LCD technology at this show, with LG-Philips coming a close second. I was rather concerned to see a dud LCD display right in the centre of the Philips stand, rendering the whole message of reliability as rather nonsensical. It took them a couple of hours to change it. Overall, the IFA feels as though it has less numbers this year, partly because new display technology is not enough to bring the younger audience (In the longer-term, I would expect IFA to become a mobile-services-games show, with hi-fi and home entertainment moving into the background.) Also visited a home-of-tomorrow being put together by T-Systems (the old German Telecom) although many of the applications were clearly in beta (i.e. were imposible to demonstrate without a blue screen) and were surprisingly poorly integrated. I am still concerned about putting a Windows based system in the car......that blue screen is guaranteed to come at the worst possible moment.