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2012/07/24 10:16:25

IFA - An exhibition of consumer electronics in Berlin

Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) is the largest exhibition of consumer electronics and home appliances in Berlin.

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Exhibition profiles

As of the beginning of the 2010th years the main directions of an exhibition are:

  • Television, DVD, home theaters (IFA Home Entertainment)
  • Audio equipment of HiFi, loudspeakers (IFA Audio Entertainment)
  • Photo, video, MP3, computers, computer games, memory cards (IFA My Media)
  • Television stations, radio, the professional equipment for specialists of the sphere of mass communication (IFA Public Media)
  • Telecommunication, cable television, mobile means, navigation, content providers (IFA Communication)
  • Providers, semiconductors (IFA Technology & Components)

Performance Indicators

2011: 238,000 visitors

On IFA 2011 it was placed orders more than 3.7 billion euros. 238,000 visitors (+3%) participated in an exhibition. The number of specialists visitors increased up to 132,900 that is 12% higher, than in 2010. 51,200 was arrived from abroad, is almost twice more, than in 2010, anniversary for an exhibition. 1441 exhibitors (+1%) provided the latest developments on the area of 140,200 sq.m (+ 4%).

2010: 231,664 visitors

  • The exhibition area made 134,000 sq.m.;
  • The number of participants of an exhibition - 1,423 participants.
  • The number of visitors of an exhibition - 231,664 people from 48 countries.

History

Homeland of the international IFA exhibition - Berlin. The history IFA reflects development of consumer electronics from the very first radio receiver to three-dimensional video technologies.

The exhibition carrying then the name the Big German radio exhibition accepted the first visitors on December 4, 1924. To the German radio only year was performed by then.

The exhibition of 1930 was opened by Albert Einstein whose speech was broadcast on radio live.

In the welcoming speech Einstein emphasized: "Sources of any technical achievements are the divine inquisitiveness and passion of the inquisitive researcher and also creative imagination of the inventor. As for radio, it is faced by a unique task - conciliation of the people", - Einstein emphasized.

Later superheterodyne and short-wave receivers were "hit of the season", also the television began to take the first steps.

In several years technical progress in Germany got to an ideological vice of national socialism. The minister of promotion of "the third Reich" Joseph Goebbels, among other supervising and an exhibition, said: "We do not do any secret: radio belongs to us! I consider it the most up-to-date and the most important of all existing means of influence on masses".

Image:Геббельс Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H10252, Berlin, Funkausstellung, J. Goebbels, H. Kriegler.jpg

Goebbels examines at a radio exhibition the national receiver, 1938

Nazis used radio receivers as the technical tool of promotion. In the people these devices ironically nicknamed "Goebbels's mouth" (Goebbels-Schnauze). In August, 1939 when Goebbels attended the 16th Big German radio exhibition, radio of Germany already trained the population of the country for war.

Again inhabitants of the western part of the separated Germany only five years later upon termination of World War II - in 1950 in Düsseldorf could see new products of consumer electronics. Since then the exhibition which of name the word "big" disappeared was held by each two years alternately in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart and Berlin.

In 1950 the victorious procession of sub-frequency waves began. And two years later in houses of Germans the first TVs appeared.

Since 1955, thanks to development of the transistor equipment, once bulky radio sets decreased to figurative, so-called suitcase, radio.

In 1967 the exhibition returned to Berlin. The German chancellor Willy Brandt, speaking at its opening, proclaimed the beginning of an era of the color television in Germany. West Germany became the first state of Europe which implemented the color television in the PAL system. The first color television receiver cost then about 2400 deutschmarks.

In 1971 the exhibition became international. This fact was reflected also in its new name which the exhibition carries to this day: Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA). The directory of the new products represented on it constantly grew in volume. In those days videorecorders and remote controls entered daily life of Germans, the video text in TVs became a usual thing.

In the 1980th years public and legal TV and radio broadcasting had competitors - private TV channels, and the 1990th years were marked by emergence in the market of computers. All this directly received reflection at IFA stands.

All new technologies which radically changed ideas of people of opportunities of radio and television - digital radio - and telecasting, a MP3 players and mobile phones - became principal themes in the IFA pavilions.

At the beginning of this century at an exhibition flat TVs with LCD screens, and in 2003 - the first antennas accepting signals of digital television broadcasting were exposed.

Later at an exhibition two European premieres - the high definition television (HDTV) and broadcast of television programs on mobile phones were held.

Since 2005 organizers of the fair IFA made the decision to hold an exhibition annually.

In 2012 the exhibition is held from August 31 to September 5.