Greg Tarr

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California’s CE Retailers Speak Out On CEC Regs

As you might expect, a few retailers that depend on selling big-screen TVs for a living weren’t exactly all warm and fuzzy with the recent California Energy Commission’s (CEC) decision to impose energy-consumption limits on flat-panel TVs 58 inches and smaller. An advocacy group called Californians for Smart Energy (CSE) sent around comments from some of California’s... More

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Keep Selectable Output Control In Consumers’ Hands

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) fired off a very interesting ex parte letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week is response to a letter submitted Nov. 4 by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) pushing its position that the use of selectable output control (SOC) over copyrighted content played on consumer devices would be “consumer... More

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Did The CEC Miscalculate Our Future?

The California Energy Commission’s (CEC) proposed energy consumption guidelines for flat-panel TVs should raise some disturbing questions for anyone interested in the evolution of next-generation big-screen television sets. In consultation with one of the state’s largest electric utilities - Pacific Gas & Electric - the CEC has divined over the last 18 months a new formula... More

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Industries Are Ready For 3-D TV, But Are Consumers?

Ready or not, a new era of 3-D 1080p (for each eye) high-definition video for the home is just around the corner. Executives from the largest Hollywood studios to the top-ranked consumer electronics companies demonstrated at a 3-D Summit, co-hosted in Los Angeles by TWICE sister publication Variety last week, that they are hell-bent on making this happen, and for the near term at least, it... More

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BDA Blasts Harris Poll

The high-definition disc format war may be over, but the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) apparently is still defending its turf from the ghost of its dead and moldering rival. On Thursday, the group issued a response to a recent Harris Interactive poll that found “lukewarm” demand for HD movie disc players in general, while showing stronger sales for the gone-but-not-forgotten... More