Audio/Video

AGOURA HILLS, CALIF. -A trio of audio products introduced by Theta Digital includes The Casablanca II Music and Cinema Controller, a modular and upgradable...

Onkyo will go to the CEDIA Expo with a custom-oriented Integra Research line as part of a new distribution strategy that includes plans to...

TWICE: How can manufacturers support installation companies? Goldstein: The CIS group within Sony is almost like a company within a company....

Custom consumed a major portion of the agenda at the HTSA spring conference, which included a roundtable discussion and a separate panel during which...

A handful of companies went to CES to demonstrate hard-drive audio recorders intended to link up with a home A/V system. The companies included...

The percentage of CEDIA members who do retail has inched up in recent years, reflecting retailers’ growing involvement in the custom segment, said CEDIA...

Panja has expanded support for its home-network standard to 40 audio, video and home-control companies in recent months. About 20 more are committed to...

Escient expects to expand its distribution base beyond custom installers with the May shipment of its Java-based TuneBase 100 CD library-management system, said Tom...

Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio are months away from unveiling the details of their retail programs, but both companies have sketched out...

Aiwa is preparing next year to venture into CD-recorders and new compressed digital formats such as MP3 while pursuing the video market more aggressively...

TWICE: What challenges face custom installers during the next few years? Harary: The basis of many of the questions you sent to us in...

Major music companies are moving out of the market-test phase and are beginning to implement business plans to authorize the sale of downloaded music...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — XM Satellite Radio plans to field test prototype satellite radios in early 2001, launch market trials with consumers in a handful...

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Contending that Microsoft’s Windows Media Audio will become the dominant Internet audio format, I-Jam has developed a solid-state portable that supports...

Audio/video suppliers acknowledged the custom-install channel’s growing prominence during last month’s CEDIA Expo. Harman International, Onkyo and Thiel, for instance, signaled their intention to...

INDIANAPOLIS — Suppliers used the CEDIA Expo to update the trade about their plans for next-generation audio formats. Here’s what various suppliers were saying:...

There may be more than one way to decode Dolby Digital EX-encoded DVDs — at least that’s what some suppliers believe. But Lucasfilm’s THX...

Custom installers must prepare for changing customer demands, a multiplicity of digital home network standards, and new competition from the likes of home security...

At least two new audio brands, Diva and Outlaw Audio, and longtime brand PS Audio see e-commerce as their only commerce. And another start-up,...

TWICE: How can the industry stimulate awareness and demand? Rich: The biggest issue is educating the homeowner and the design community. We are the...

The computer and video industries will step up their influence on the audio industry at CES, where hard-drive-based audio systems will compete for attention...

Command Audio launched its wireless audio-on-demand service at retail in January in the Denver and Phoenix markets, where the company supported the rollout with...

Two start-up companies are divorcing streaming Internet audio content from the PC to simplify access to Internet radio stations, which number in the thousands....

NEW YORK – Denon unveiled a 2000 lineup that includes the industry’s first component equipped with licensed DTS ES decoder, the company’s first RF...

New audio and video “servers” introduced at CEDIA’s Expo took the form of Escient’s 200-disc DVD/CD changer and a lower priced hard-drive-based music server...

Most specialty A/V retailers are having the time of their lives, thanks to a vibrant economy, strong new home sales, accelerating custom-installation demand, and...

RAMSEY, N.J. – Onkyo launched a series of 12 invitation-only regional events to persuade dealers to embrace its new Integra and Integra Research brands,...

Audio buyers might want to spend an extra day more at next month’s CES than they did at last January’s show if they want...

Middletown, Conn. — The group formed last year by Harman International to make its consumer brands more responsive to the custom market plans a...

Creative Labs has come up with another way to future-proof a solid-state-memory portable-audio device. Its second-generation Nomad 2 will support MP3 and Windows Media...

Wadia’s purchase of speaker maker Hales Design Group is a central element in the electronics manufacturer’s “fairly aggressive growth plans,” said Wadia sales and...

New products unveiled during the CEDIA Expo by Crestron, Elan, and Home Systems Plus integrated PCs and the Web more tightly with home-control systems....

The DVD Audio and Super Audio CD formats continued to evolve at CES, where Philips demonstrated multichannel SACD and hardware suppliers revealed that Matsushita...

Harman Kardon will join a growing number of suppliers planning to launch dual-well CD-recorders and carousel DVD changers in the fall, when the company...

The top three TV networks are moving at varying speeds — slow, slower, and even slower — to deliver Dolby Digital 5.1-channel audio with...

Internet audio portables will soon evolve into player/recorders whose batteries will operate for up to 30 hours in playback mode, technology developers told TWICE....

A new compact laptop DVD player featuring a 7″ flip-open 16:9 LCD viewscreen tops a line of Pioneer-branded DVD video players slated for shipment...

DigiVision, the developer of video-processing systems for the medical industry, travels to this week’s CEDIA show to unveil a home theater-focused video image enhancer...

Washington, D.C. — The Federal Communications Commission added two new rules for television broadcasters and set manufacturers aimed at better serving sight-impaired and hearing-impaired...

Sharp used the recent CEDIA Expo ’99 to showcase a range of products that extended beyond the high-end home theater components traditionally displayed at...

Although not openly discussed at its recent dealer meetings, JVC has quietly returned to the Super VHS camcorder business with two models that use...

Canon introduced three “affordably priced” camcorders, two aggressively priced 8mm models, and a new miniDV unit. The digital model — called the ZR10 —...