Audio/Video

Definitive Technology plans home-speaker introductions in a variety of market segments, including packaged home theater speaker, subwoofers, flat speakers for use with flat-panel video...

LAS VEGAS — Companies from multiple industries remained tight lipped prior to International CES on market launch plans that will touch off a brewing...

By Joseph PalencharTWICE: How did various product categories perform in 2005, and what are their prospects for 2006? Sylvester: Distributed audio was up 10...

Krell’s eight-SKU EVO series of components, debuting at International CES, is based on technology used in the flagship Evolution Series. Like the mono amp...

The first mono table radio from Cambridge SoundWorks is the $99-suggested Radio 705, said to offer better performance and a higher feature set than...

Although camcorder sales have held relatively steady over the past three years at over 5 million units, a sea change is occurring under seemingly...

Watch for an invigorated cable presence at this year’s International CES, if progress made throughout 2005 is any indication. Several milestones punctuated 2005 as...

Digital portables, or MP3 players, are driving the audio market now, and at January’s International CES, suppliers will exhibit more flash-memory and hard-disk-drive (HDD)...

LG Electronics will highlight its next-generation XD Engine video processing system as a key enhancement in many 2006 high-definition plasma TVs, LCD TVs and...

How will the ever-changing landscape for communications and entertainment services among cable, satellite and telecommunications operators shake out in the next several years? Five...

Oakley, the supplier and retailer of outdoor apparel and accessories, shipped its second-generation MP3 sunglasses with embedded memory, and it promises to expand its...

Qsonix will expand the capabilities of the industry’s first drag-and-drop touch-screen-equipped music management system, the Q100 Digital Music Entertainment system, by including four-zone output...

More than 40 products being developed with Insteon home network technology include devices from motorization-system maker Somfy and Jarden Corp., which markets First Alert...

The MultiMedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) expects the first wave MoCA-equipped products to be certified in December, following a successful test of interoperability-certification procedures...

Meridian Audio used the recent EH Expo to showcase a home theater system featuring the “Faroudja by Meridian” DVP1080 digital video processor, and DILA1080pHD...

NEC recently introduced two affordably priced, compact DLP front projectors at its NEC partner showcase. The models — LT30 and LT35 — are both...

Most home theater owners are cranking up surround sound systems with five or more discrete audio channels, and most of these surround system owners...

Arlington Heights, Ill. — Change is possible when you get old. On its 80th anniversary, Bang & Olufsen is entering such new business segments...

Sony continued to make major market-share gains in retail shelf space for its new BRAVIA line in October, according to findings released by market...

The majority of households don’t own a home theater because of practical challenges, including small room sizes and a disinclination to run exposed wires...

In an historic shift, the portable audio industry has grown larger than the home audio industry and by year’s end could exceed the size...

Worldwide shipments of consumer electronics products with built-in networking capabilities will grow at a compound annual rate of 64.4 percent between 2005 and 2009...

Two competing industry associations, TGn Sync and WWiSE, formed a Joint Proposal (JP) group to combine their proposals for a wireless high-speed IEEE 802.11n...

Kensington is expanding its presence in the iPod home docking station market with the launch of its first amplified speaker system for iPods. The...

Legal downloading is on the upswing, but the percentage of households downloading unauthorized files through peer-to-peer (P2P) services is still growing, The NPD Group...

The recent 2005 CEATEC Show, held here, offered a showcase of some new technologies that may be coming to U.S. retailers in the year...

Satellite radio broadcasters are positioning themselves to win a growing share of consumers’ ear time outside the car even though they believe the car...

Start-up consumer electronics vendor OPPO Digital introduced what it calls “a high performance, stylish DVI DVD player for HDTVs and projectors.” The OPPO OPDV971H...

IT industry powerhouses Microsoft and Intel gave the HD DVD format a major credibility boost by formally announcing support of the next-generation optical disc....

Thomson announced the delivery of a pair of RCA DVD products, including a home-based DVD recorder and a compact portable DVD player. Both units...

There is a basic synergy between recorded sound and the human spirit. People react to recorded music in a visceral way. You hear something,...

Roku, the maker of networked media and music players, has developed the first clock radio that wakes consumers up by playing Internet radio stations...

Right before the beginning of CEDIA Expo earlier this month, executives from three major movie studios — Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home...

McIntosh unveiled the highest priced speakers it has ever made and one of the highest priced consumer speakers in home audio history, at CEDIA,...

Epson America unveiled at CEDIA Expo, here, its new generation of 3LCD rear-projection HDTV monitors, consisting of the company’s first two 1,080p models, and...

SIM2 USA presented CEDIA show goers, here, with the latest mini projector in its popular Domino Series, a pair of 40W-inch LCD TV monitors,...

Stealth Acoustics of Mount Vernon, Wash., went to CEDIA with an expanded series of completely invisible architectural speakers. The F8 two-way speaker joined the...

Boston Acoustics said it plans early-2006 shipments of its new flagship E series of five speakers, which replace the VR-M Reference series. Each speaker...

NAD launched a new series called the Master Series of reference-grade A/V components. They are the M15 preamp processor; M25 seven-channel amp; M3 dual-mono...

Suppliers of Public Alert-certified radios are pursing traditional consumer electronics retailers and general merchandise chains to drive sales, but some of the companies have...

Samsung unveiled at a Christmas in August press event, here, a Home Media Center set-top box which integrates bidirectional digital cable reception, standard and...

Strategy Analytics projects slower growth for OEM and after-market automotive satellite radios because of growing demand for portable models and for digital AM/FM radio....