Audio/Video

Sharp camcorders presented at CES brought a new twist to the miniDV digital Viewcam Z concept, adding an extended 240-degree rotating lens mechanism for...

Looking to advance the DVD up-conversion technology it introduced a year ago, Samsung unveiled at CES its next generation of up-conversion players, which joined...

Fujitsu General America showed dealers at CES its largest plasma-display panel to date in the 63W-inch P63XHA30WS and the industry’s first 55W-inch model featuring...

Continuing its philosophy of offering the highest quality digital electronics products at the lowest price, Anaheim, Calif.-based Mintek Digital unveiled at CES its third-generation...

Pioneer demonstrated its latest version of a planned home-A/V network system, which has been upgraded to include PVR and HDTV streaming capabilities. In demonstrating...

Runco International used CES to announce new technology introductions for both its Runco and Vidikron video projector lines. Under Runco, the company announced its...

Pinnacle Systems used CES to unveil Pinnacle Studio 9, the next iteration in its popular home-video editing system for novice users. Pinnacle Studio 9,...

With traditional speaker sales on the decline, speaker suppliers here at CES will get more aggressive in the ever-growing custom-installation market. OnQ, Polk and...

The decade-long housing boom was expected to peak in 2003 at 1.45 million single-family housing starts, the second highest level on record, before declining...

Infinity is replacing its Alpha series with Beta, which sports refined cosmetics, enhanced technology, and no increase in price from the comparable Alpha models....

Here’s what dealers will find in new HTiB systems at CES: Audiovox: At least two HTiB systems will be unveiled. They are the $149-suggested...

Custom-install suppliers, like their home audio counterparts, are branching out into new product directions in a bid to become one-stop shopping sources for their...

Audio suppliers hope to reverse the declining attachment rate of quality audio to big-ticket video-display sales with the launch here of component speakers whose...

Definitive Technology will expand its Mythos line of extruded-aluminum, plasma-friendly speakers with four more models, and it will replace three bipolar tower speakers that...

With 70 million households subscribing to cable television, making high-definition television programming easily available over cable pipes has long been a benchmark for turning...

With each new year, the consumer electronics industry circulates closer and closer into the mainstream of the cable television industry. The reason is fairly...

For the last few years, I’ve been reporting on the tremendous strides made in regard to the digital television (DTV) transition. Without question, 2003...

What a difference a decade makes. In 1994, many audio suppliers still hadn’t embraced surround sound, the new MiniDisc and DCC formats were slugging...

The average retail price of a home-theater-in-a-box (HTiB) system rose during the first three quarters of 2003, reversing a fourth-quarter 2002 decline, largely because...

The economy has turned a corner, but the home audio industry sure hasn’t. Factory-level component-audio sales have fallen to levels not seen since 1985,...

Toshiba and NEC formally announced here that the DVD Forum, a multi-industry association that sanctions standards based on the DVD optical disc system, has...

Haier, Legend and TCL rank among the top China-based original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of electronics products and major appliances by revenue, according to a...

The economy has turned a corner, but the home audio industry sure hasn’t. Factory-level component-audio sales have fallen to levels not seen since 1985,...

TWICE: We’ve talked about consumers shying away from products that make their lives more complicated. Wasn’t the HTiB supposed to be the solution? And...

TWICE: Some years back, a home audio supplier mused that as baby boomers aged, and their financial obligations declined, money would be freed up...

Beginning a campaign to win DVD Forum recognition for the blue-laser-based high-definition DVD system, Toshiba and NEC gave members of the press a demonstration...

Full Audio has joined the trend to offer authorized music downloads without charging a monthly subscription fee. Full Audio will make a non-subscription option...

The pressure on custom home-audio suppliers to consolidate is growing and putting more pressure on custom installers to merge, according to an investment banking...

Mintek Digital, a wholly owned subsidiary of a Chinese manufacturer, is diversifying its product selection with the launch of its first Mintek-branded microsystem and...

TDK has begun shipping its first flash-memory music portables but has delayed plans for a hard disk drive (HDD) model. Four flash-memory portables, all...

Pinnacle Systems, the leading supplier of video editing software, is expanding its reach into the home networking category, with the delivery of the ShowCenter...

Phoenix Gold will catch the eye of custom installers when it launches its first distributed-audio system (DAS), which will complement the company’s in-wall speakers,...

Sonance will further diversify its custom-install assortment by expanding its selection of LCD touch screens to three from one, launching its first RF/IR remotes,...

Showtime Networks said it will launch its second high-definition television (HDTV) channel — The Movie Channel HD — on Dec. 1. The new channel...

Coby Electronics has introduced an ultra-compact personal DVD player with a built-in 7-inch LCD screen. The TFDVD7700 measures 8 by 6 inches and is...

As expected, the recent CEDIA Expo proved to be a major showcase for next-generation video front projectors based on DLP micro-device technologies, and revealed...

INDIANAPOLIS — JVC used CEDIA to mark its return to the D-ILA rear-projection category by showing a prototype rear-projection HDTV display based on a...

Loewe announced at the recent Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) that it has extended the warranty period for its high-performance designer television monitors from the current...

New distributed-audio and lighting products unveiled at the CEDIA Expo include new retrofit-targeted RF wireless touch screens and keypads as well as distributed-audio systems...

Installers didn’t have to look hard during the CEDIA Expo to figure out where the custom industry is going. Suppliers leveraged Ethernet and Internet...

The consumer electronics industry must adopt new business models in the face of “powerful new factors” that invalidate “a business as usual approach,” Gerard...

The amount of 5.1-channel content available through cable systems is on the upswing. Here’s what’s available to your customers if they live in markets...