Audio/Video

TiVo, the developer of one of the first digital video recorders (DVRs), said it revamped an agreement with AOL Time Warner that will enable...

A fledgling effort to divorce compressed-audio portables from the PC continues with the introduction of Panasonic’s SV-SR100, a headphone portable that combines a CD...

Santa Clara, Calif.— As part of its effort to move compressed audio off the PC and into A/V systems, SONICblue has begun shipping the...

The mix of rear projection television sales to consumers continued to swing decidedly toward digital television capable monitors in 2001, according to data released...

Although it is considered the king of the consumer video editing market, Pinnacle Systems has started a crusade to expand its volume by educating...

Silverline Records, which has released 53 DVD-Audio titles to date in the U.S., plans at least another 140 more titles as a result of...

Advertised Prices Of Headphone MP3 Portables January 2001

Unlike the $5,999-suggested DV-AX10 DVD-Audio/SACD player, Pioneer’s new Elite series 47A doesn’t downconvert SACD to PCM before converting the signal to analog. The $1,200-suggested...

Ucentric Systems expects a second-half commercial rollout of a home-network platform that distributes audio, video and data throughout the house from a hard-drive-equipped set-top...

Determined to forge a leadership role in the U.S. flat panel television business, Sharp presented a group of journalists a “lifestyle” setting in a...

The music industry attributed declining 2001 unit and dollar volume to the economy, terrorism, and consumers who download and copy music in violation of...

Home appliances will likely be the first networked consumer products in the United States to take advantage of an Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi)...

Swiss speaker maker Piega is stepping up its marketing activities in North America as part of its effort to expand distribution into the western...

The DVD Forum has adopted an IEEE 1394-based technical standard that will simplify connections between DVD-Audio/Video players and other consumer electronics products, including receivers...

A MiniDisc Walkman, MP3-CD Walkman, and an MP3-CD boombox will appear for the first time in coming months in Sony’s series of sports-style audio...

Thomson multimedia announced a consumer digital television sweepstakes promotion timed to take advantage of its broadcast production sponsorship of FOX Network’s Super Bowl XXXVI...

A flagship speaker, the company’s first indoor/outdoor models, and subwoofer amps are in store from RBH. The flagship T1 in the Signature Series features...

Combined factory-level sales of home and portable audio will slide for the third consecutive year in 2002, but only by 1.1 percent to $6.02...

NHT dropped its decade-long strategy of offering one series of home theater speakers and a separate speaker series for music listeners. At CES, the...

DVD video players and digital color televisions proved to be the sales stars in an otherwise disappointing 2001 for consumer video categories, as reflected...

Also in its 2001 product strategy, NHT is: maintaining its recently launched Super Audio series, which can be used to create a surround system...

Here’s a model-by-model outline of what dealers found in solid-state and MP3-CD portables and in traditional portable audio products: Aiwa: The company’s first 3-inch...

Hard drives proliferated in the car and in portable audio at CES. Here’s what dealers found in the portable segment: Archos: The peripherals supplier...

Custom-install supplier Russound purchased IntelliNet as part of its effort to enter the commercial market and further penetrate the residential systems-integration market, said Russound...

Despite the technical advances in home theater audio components, the audio industry will continue its shift at CES towards simpler home theater solutions and...

Like NASDAQ in 2000, the home-theater-in-a-box (HTiB) business in 2001 soared to unprecedented heights, prompting suppliers at CES to enter the market, expand their...

GPX will expand its selection of DVD-equipped solutions as part of its continuing effort to expand into new product categories and deliver value at...

Panasonic and Yamaha will lead the charge to include DVD-Audio/Video players in home-theater-in-a-box (HTiB) solutions. In expanding its selection of DVD-equipped HTiBs, Panasonic plans...

Although DVD players have taken much of the luster away from trusty VCRs, there is still some life in tape-based video, according to vendors...

Suppliers will turn increasingly to 3-inch and 5-inch MP3-CD portables and portable battery-powered hard drives to capture their share of the Internet audio portable...

The home audio industry will continue to reinvent itself during January’s CES, where CE suppliers will embrace new audio technologies, diversify into one-stop home-theater...

InFocus, a leading supplier of digital video projectors for the corporate and institutional channels, recently started shipping the first projector it will sell for...

Motorola’s Broadband Communications unit will show at CES a handheld touchscreen device that wirelessly links command controls of its new digital set-top boxes with...

Sharp Electronics introduced a new low price point into its digital camcorder line with the announcement of its lightweight Viewcam, model VL-NZ8U. The full-motion...

Canon U.S.A. said it will be showcasing its current line of consumer camcorders at January’s CES, and hinted that select invitees will be given...

Full Audio has signed a two-year nonexclusive deal with Universal Music to add select songs from the Universal catalog to its planned cache-download music-subscription...

Portable Internet audio players have been the best-selling Internet audio application to date, but other Internet audio products such as console-style hard-drive jukeboxes and...

Technology developer 1Limited will turn up at January’s CES to market a proprietary technology that delivers multichannel surround sound with a wide sweet spot...

TiVo announced it has taken its PVR system to the broadband cable industry after deploying its first broadband cable products to select AT&T Broadband...

Looking to feed holiday demand for video game systems, Sega of America lowered the suggested retail price on remaining Dreamcast video game consoles to...

The Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association said it will present a condensed SkyFORUM satellite/financial symposium at next month’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las...

Advertised Receiver Prices September 2001