Accessories
Crowdsourcing Its Success: GoPro Seeking Testers For New Cam
GoPro announced a pilot program for its newest action cam, the Fusion. Few details for the spherical camera were given, other than that it...
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The Turntable Is The Latest Unlikely Margin Hero
Everything old is new again (again). As consumers open their wallets for nostalgia — and manufacturers build in advanced features to products — one...
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Onkyo Pulls The Trigger On Chromecast Streaming
Onkyo USA released a firmware update for select home theater, hi-fi and lifestyle audio components that activates Chromecast built-in audio streaming, as well as...
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Growth of an A/V Ecosystem
Vizio unveiled a complete A/V assortment for the home including new M-Series HDR TVs, soundbars and wireless speakers. The new SmartCast M-Series Ultra HD...
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The Zen of Dishwashing
The moment I first used a dishwasher, I was sold. I grew up in a house with grandparents who cooked and cleaned up most...
Appliances
This Could Be The Last Time For Energy Star Awards
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) bestowed their annual Energy Star Awards in Washington on Wednesday for what may...
Distributors
Petra Hosts 15th Annual Car Audio Expo
Petra Industries, the national tech distributor, held its 15th annual Car Audio expo earlier this month, hosting the most exhibitors in the event’s history....
Computers
Acer Gets Skinny For Back-To-School PC Line; Shows Off Microsoft Mixed Reality
Acer unveiled it full 2017 back-to-school product lineup at a press conference in New York, including new all-in-one PCs, gaming notebooks and detachables, all...
Financial
Amazon Earnings Up 41% In Q1
Amazon reported its profits grew 41 percent for the first quarter, in no small part thanks to the global expansion of its retail and...
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Sony Launches Bravia OLED TVs At Retail
Sony officially launched its OLED Bravia A1E TV at retail at a premiere event yesterday at Video & Audio Center (VAC) in Woodland Hills,...
Accessories
Otterbox Brings Mophie Into Its iPhone UniVerse
Two of the industry’s largest smartphone accessory manufacturers have teamed up in the name of battery life and wireless charging. Otterbox announced Mophie would...
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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai To Brief Congress On Net Neutrality Rollback
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai is expected to brief the House Energy & Commerce Committee on his plans to roll back his...
Appliances
Samsung, LG Tops In U.S. Appliance Sales: Stevenson
Samsung and LG Electronics dominated the U.S. major appliance market in the first quarter. According to The Stevenson Company’s latest TraQline sales data, the...
Audio
House Of Marley’s Stir It Up Turntable Is Made With Hemp & Plastic Bottles
Joining the rising tide of turntable sales will be House of Marley’s newest model, the eco-friendly Stir It Up. Manufactured with a solid bamboo...
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Apple Embraces ‘Town Square’ Store Model To Lure Consumers
Apple is joining the host of retailers seeking to lure consumers, and keep them there, by offering stepped-up educational sessions. In a similar vein...
Home Automation
iDevices Acquired By Hubbell
iDevices, the seven-year-old smart-home company and creator of the iGrill, has been acquired by Hubbell, a $3.4 billion global manufacturer of electrical, lighting and...
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Consumers Loosening Their Purse Strings For Tech
Consumers’ propensity to spend their hard-earned greenbacks on consumer electronics is on the rise. According to the latest monthly index from the Consumer Technology...
Appliances
Whirlpool Cleans Up In Q1
Whirlpool ended its first quarter of the year on a head of steam locally, with sales in North America up 7 percent, to $2.6...
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Vizio Adds To SmartCast Line With XLED TVs, Soundbars, Wireless Speaker
Vizio unveiled a complete A/V assortment for the home including new M-series HDR TVs, soundbars and wireless speakers. The new 2017 Vizio SmartCast M-series...
Audio
Onkyo Adds Chromecast, Google Home Download To A/V Components
Onkyo USA has released a firmware update for select home theater, hi-fi and lifestyle audio components that activates Chromecast built-in audio streaming, as well...
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Amazon Prime Membership Swells To 80 Million: CIRP
While growth of Amazon Prime membership is slowing due to saturation, the e-tailer is winning the loyalty battle as consumers continue to maintain or...
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NAB 2017: Industry is Ultra Bullish About Ultra HD
Mass consumer adoption of 4K Ultra HD is still out on the horizon, but the various facets that make up the broadcast and video...
Distributors
DAS Holds Automotive Tech Show In Atlantic City
DAS Companies, a Pennsylvania-based distributor, manufacturer and importer of car electronics, recently concluded its annual Consumer Electronics Dealers Show in Atlantic City, N.J. The...
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Sears’ Asset Sales Put It Back In Black; Gets Third CFO In A Year
Following a long string of quarterly losses, Sears Holdings expects to report a profit for its fiscal first quarter. In an update of its...
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Bigger Isn’t Always Better: Smartphone Transitioning As Preferred Device For Video Watching
The percentage of consumers who prefer watching TV shows on TV sets plummeted by 55 percent over the past year, said market research firm...
Industry
IFA 2017: Global CE Sales To Dip In ’17, But Will Rise In ’18 Thanks To 5 Key Trends: GfK
While there are a plethora of new and disruptive technologies inching their way into the mass market, global sales of consumer technology products are...
Audio
Spin The Black Circle: Turntable Sales Up 16%
Everything old is new again (again). As consumers open their wallets for nostalgia — and manufacturers build in advanced features to products — one...
Audio
LifeProof Enters Bluetooth Speaker Category With Aquaphonics Line
Smartphone case manufacturer LifeProof has entered a new CE category: Bluetooth speakers. Keeping in theme with the company’s ultra-durable cases, the trio of Aquaphonics...
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Sony Will Offer Its 1st OLED Bravia TV At Video & Audio Center
Sony will bring its groundbreaking OLED A1E Bravia TV with Acoustic Surface technology to retail next week with a kick-off event at Los Angeles-based...
Home Automation
Moni Simplifies Smart-Home Security With Interactive Kiosk
Moni (formerly Monitronics), a Dallas-based home security alarm monitoring company, has introduced what it described as a first-of-its-kind interactive kiosk meant to make smart-home...
Industry
Netsertive Hires Savant, Crestron Vets Jason Sayen & Chris Perkins
Netsertive, a digital marketing services company linking brands with local dealers, has expanded its sales team. Joining the ranks as sales directors are Jason...
Digital Cameras
New Sony Flagship Alpha 9 Mirrorless Camera Takes On Rival Pro DSLRs
Sony’s debut of its new flagship full-frame mirrorless camera, the Alpha 9 (A9), put an emphasis on the camera’s speed and performance advantages. The...
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Safeware Makes The Case For Extended Warranties
Purchasing an extended warranty for pricey, handheld devices is a no-brainer for the fumble-fingered among us. Indeed, in a recent survey by LG Electronics,...
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Samsung, Amazon Video Team To Deliver Updated Open Standard HDR10+
Samsung and Amazon are teaming to deliver a higher standard of high-dynamic-range (HDR) performance to the video market. The Samsung-backed HDR10+ technology (based on...
Camcorders
GoPro Seeking Testers For Its New Fusion VR Cam
GoPro announced a pilot program for its newest action cam, the Fusion. Few details for the spherical camera were given, other than that it...
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Retail Is Dead, Long Live Retail
Sometimes it really is hard to see the forest for the trees. As students of CE retail, it’s all too easy to get caught...
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Cowboy Maloney’s Lassos Larger Digs
Echoing Roy Rogers’ country western classic, Cowboy Maloney’s told its Columbus, Miss., landlord last year, “Don’t fence me in.” And with that the 13-store...
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60% Of Internet U.S. Homes Have A Connected TV Device: NPD
The number of U.S. homes with an installed connected TV device reached 60 percent of all Internet homes, according to The NPD Group, up...
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Facebook Takes Deeper Dive Into Augmented Reality
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees the phone as the bridge product to the widespread adoption of augmented reality (AR), and the company is basing...
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hhgregg Gives Notice To HQ Staff As RadioShack Winds Through Bankruptcy Court
It’s still hard to believe that hhgregg is going away. But if we need any further proof beyond the liquidation sales, there’s the company’s...
Home Automation
Most Consumers Plan To Buy A Smart-Home Device In The Next 2 Years: Study
More than half of U.S. consumers plan to buy a smart-home device in the next two years, and of those who already own one,...
Buying Groups
ProSource Lands Micro Center
ProSource, the industry’s biggest buying group for independent A/V dealers and integrators, has snagged an equally massive retailer. Micro Center, the 25-store IT specialty...