As this year’s show wows visitors with the consumer electronics and home appliances industry’s latest and greatest innovations, we take a look back at some of the pivotal moments that have shaped IFA’s 100-year history.
1987 The Super Planar picture tube offered a much flatter TV screen and S-VHS recorders were introduced. The Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) was the buzzword and the first “portable” computers were made available.
1991 Hot topics in 1991 were the official start of broadcasting for the European standard D2-MAC and the widescreen format 16:9, to which TV broadcasting was to be converted. The CD, which had already overtaken vinyl records, was joined by CD-R, Photo-CD and CD interactive (CD-i).
1995 IFA ‘95 went down in history as the first real multimedia trade show with the ongoing digitalisation of media and technology. The first flat TV displays were shown as well as the first satellite receivers for digital television. As a new storage medium, the two-layer HDCD was presented as a multimedia CD (MMCD).
2001 Digital evolution reached a new peak with digital television, radio, recording media, photography, telecommunications, and information technology. Rapid access to Internet data via TV was demonstrated, as was the increased transmission of sound and images via the global network.
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