Audio/Video

Home networking and custom installation were top of mind at Pioneer when it designed its new Elite series A/V products. The company added DLNA...

Samsung reclaimed the No. 1 position in plasma and rear-projection TV shelf share in May, taking 19.9 percent and 28.36 percent, respectively, of category...

Active speaker systems for the iPod have become one of the hottest sellers in home and portable audio and are poised to become the...

Bang & Olufsen (B&O) has begun marketing a wireless version of its wired BeoLink multiroom-audio system to reduce installation time for custom installers and...

A pair of new hard-disk music servers that ReQuest has begun shipping include the company’s first terabyte-capacity music server. The $18,500-suggested S4.2500 is also...

Instant Media (IM), a privately held start-up focusing on delivery of high-definition video programming over the Internet, launched its first two “channels” offering consumers...

Runco International recently honored its top selling retail partners at the company’s annual Mexico Getaway in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Top honors went to...

JVC introduced a 3 CCD model in its Everio family of hard-disk-drive-based (HDD) camcorders. The 30GB GZ-MG505 is the company’s flagship HDD camcorder featuring...

Music download site eMusic is turning to the brick-and-mortar retail channel as part of a new promotional push. The company, whose subscription-based service sells...

Proposed legislation before the Senate Judiciary Committee would force satellite radio broadcasters XM and Sirius to limit consumers’ ability to record satellite radio programming,...

Polaroid said it is now shipping a new DVD recorder with a built-in 80GB hard drive incorporating YesDVD technology. Model DRM-2001G is being distributed...

The U.S. consumer electronics industry is in the throes of a revolution that has already dramatically changed the way products get to market. Now...

Principle Solutions (PSI), the creator of TVGuardian foul-language blocking technology, is seeking strategic and financial partners to take its business to the next level....

Sony Electronics’ fiscal year began this month with one of the company’s most aggressive consumer electronics campaigns, a year-long “full court press” based on...

Motorola wants to extend the network capabilities of its DVR-equipped set-top boxes to cellular phones. During the CTIA Wireless 2006 convention here, the company...

Given the challenges of today’s consumer electronics market, providing consumers with the opportunity to experience home entertainment in a rich and powerful demonstration is...

The first HD DVD players will decode all mandatory and optional surround sound formats outlined in the HD DVD specifications, and the players will...

Installer-level revenues grew an estimated 17.7 percent in 2005 to $7.3 billion, according to an estimate by Parks Associates. The company, which based its...

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance, developer of powerline-network standards, is branching out to develop a powerline-based home-control standard, which will enable whole-house control of lighting,...

A growing percentage of new-home builders has begun to offer custom installed audio/video systems, and the adoption rate by new-home buyers has grown as...

Buena Park, Calif. — Yamaha is adapting to the proliferation of new music sources by launching its first A/V receivers with iPod controls and...

Sony announced a new 1,080i HD camcorder model, the HDR-HC3. The unit, shipping in April for an estimated $1,700, is smaller than its predecessor...

Canon further expanded its DVD camcorder family with the introduction of an entry-level model at $499. The DC100 records to –R/-RW media and features...

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Audio Systems Committee plans to vote in early March on a proposal to add powered subwoofers to the association’s...

Startup WiLife has launched what it calls the first HomePlug-enabled consumer video-surveillance system, which is said to bring consumer video security to the mainstream....

LeisureTech Electronics signed up additional licensees in recent months to market distributed audio systems and components incorporating its A-BUS technology, bringing to 15 the...

Current Analysis, the consumer electronics market research firm based here, said Samsung unseated Panasonic’s long hold on the No. 1 spot in plasma TV...

Las Vegas – Chipmaker Intellon demonstrated HomePlug AV-standard adapters that turn a home’s 110-volt power lines into an A/V network that can simultaneously share...

Samsung Electronics and LG.Philips LCD recently started production of larger LCD TV panels ahead of schedule at new fabrication lines here. LG.Philips LCD opened...

The venerable CD is being pummeled on two fronts, the most prominent beating coming from the online digital download side — iTunes/iPod, et al....

Almost from the moment the consumer electronics and cable TV industries agreed on the first plug-and-play provisions in December 2002, these two constantly bickering...

Hardware vendors at International CES advanced Sirius’ position in the satellite radio market even though the company itself did not exhibit. Eton and Thomson...

At least four home audio companies will support the launch of XM Satellite Radio’s planned surround channels in the coming months with A/V receivers...

As manufacturers rolled out their new HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc players at International CES, Hollywood studios also made a series of title announcements...

XM Satellite Radio revealed at International CES additional details of next-generation products that include the industry’s first MP3/satellite radio headphone portables and XM’s first...

TWICE: How will component speakers (non-custom) stay relevant? Through plasma-friendly designs? Flat-panel technologies? Wellikoff: Not everyone wants, or is in a position to have,...

The Z-Wave Alliance is hosting its first International CES pavilion here to demonstrate wireless home automation products from 10 of the 14 companies currently...

There’s always room for more new products in an industry that’s growing at double-digit percentage rates, if suppliers’ introductions here at International CES are...

TWICE: During the five-decade span from the 1950s to the 1990s, home audio thrived during most years. How can home audio stay relevant in...

Tymphany is launching its first two OEM subwoofers based on proprietary Linear Array Transducer (LAT) technology, which stacks multiple small drivers face-up inside a...

TWICE: Has there been any shift in consumer preference to show off components? Or to hide them? Wellikoff: Unquestionably yes. The luxury buyer relishes...

Home component-audio sales spiraled downward in 2005, but component speakers largely escaped the fate of their electronic brethren, driven up in dollars by consumers’...