Vestel announce plans to increase 4K production

lucid · 11 Sep 2014 at 09:22

From one of my trade papers; AVNews.....

Vestel, the world's 3rd largest TV manufacturer has announced its plans to expand its production of 4K consumer product with an emphasis on smart products and to introduce new ranges of business-to-business technologies.

Just when you thought 3D was dead...

New consumer devices include a new range of 'dual view' 3D sets that allow simultaneous viewing of 3D content from two sources

The company goes on to say that this is part of an aggressive expansion strategy in the UK and other European countries in the run up to ISE 2015.

The first surprise to me was that Vestel was already making 4K TV product. But the second is the speed of their plans. ISE 2015 runs from 10th to the 12th of Feb. The other key consumer show is CES in Las Vegas, and which runs Jan 6-9 2015.

So, given Vestel's relationship with the supermarkets, I wonder if we will see a £999 Techwood/Wharfedale/Tecknika 4K 60" screen along side the turkeys and sprouts this Christmas?

Grimley · 11 Sep 2014 at 15:15

I still wouldn't buy one, considering the build quality of Vestel tellies.

something daft already!! · 11 Sep 2014 at 15:16

Oh god no, not more crap for Hitachi badges.

lucid · 12 Sep 2014 at 00:21

Every chav with money to burn will have one at Christmas. And in January they'll be in Brighthouse so every chav with no money to burn will have one too.

Monkeynut · 12 Sep 2014 at 02:50

At the budget end I've got a 50 inch UMC and it's light years ahead of comparable Vestels, which are awful.

V F · 12 Sep 2014 at 05:01

lucid said:
Every chav with money to burn will have one at Christmas. And in January they'll be in Brighthouse so every chav with no money to burn will have one too.

Thought it would have been trade-ins for large iPhone 6's?

lucid · 12 Sep 2014 at 16:25

V F said:
Thought it would have been trade-ins for large iPhone 6's?

hmmm.... tough choices.... new shiny iPhone or big Fork Off telly for ultimate gaming on PS4/XBox One "wiv" ya mates

dbmzk1 · 12 Sep 2014 at 22:14

Never heard of them to be honest! They just make all the cheap crappy tellies you buy at Tesco?

V F · 12 Sep 2014 at 22:17

lucid said:
hmmm…. tough choices.... new shiny iPhone or big Fork Off telly for ultimate gaming on PS4/XBox One "wiv" ya mates

Heh! http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/12/6140079/apple-iphone-6-plus-3am-pre-order

lucid · 13 Sep 2014 at 02:09

dbmzk1 said:
Never heard of them to be honest! They just make all the cheap crappy tellies you buy at Tesco?

That's kind of the point

FrankJH · 13 Sep 2014 at 07:20

never cared for "smart" as it ends up being not that smart in the end and usually a pain in the preverbial lol

V F · 13 Sep 2014 at 18:06

http://www.avforums.com/article/ifa-2014-vestel-show-off-ultra-hd-4k-curves-smart-tv-and-oled.10693

Caged · 13 Sep 2014 at 18:27

How does 'Smart' even work with Vestel badged stuff? Do they just curl out a services dashboard onto the Technika brand set and then leave it to rot so most of it stops working as the way to access the content from iPlayer / YouTube etc. changes? Do Tesco pay them to release the software? Do Tesco farm it out to someone else?

How long is considered reasonable for these services to work for? If you had a five year warranty then presumably you can expect that to reward you with a new TV if all the smart features stop working because Samsung turn the servers off for older models.

V F · 13 Sep 2014 at 19:36

Caged said:
If you had a five year warranty then presumably you can expect that to reward you with a new TV if all the smart features stop working because Samsung turn the servers off for older models.

It's like an app store. Same apps for all owners of models but with a different Smart Hub UI. Everyone still downloads the same apps on the store for that brand.