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Denon Reveals Newest Models
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...
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Winds Of Change Felt At CEDIA
INDIANAPOLIS — Evidence mounted during the CEDIA Expo that massive changes are in store for the custom-installation industry, but key industry players said they...
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Kenwood, USADR Team For Terrestrial DAR
Kenwood has become the first CE manufacturer to commit to developing terrestrial digital audio radio (DAR) receivers for sale in the United States. The...
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New Spin On The Term ‘Server’ Emerges From Escient, Arrakis
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...
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Specialty Retailers Buoyant, But Threats Loom
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...
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Hifi.com Unveils Sister Site Targeted To Female Shoppers
On-line CE retailer Hifi.com has launched a sister site designed to attract women and increase the company’s percentage of sales to females, who currently...
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AV Suppliers Lay Out U.S. Plans At Berlin Show
TV sets with interactive data capabilities, TV-centric home networks, and digital video recording technologies stood at the technology forefront during Berlin’s International Funkausstellung electronics...
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Denon Charts Audio Course
DVD-Audio/Video players and a DVD-Video carousel changer are in Denon’s future, however the company hasn’t determined whether it will ship a combination DVD-Audio/Super Audio...
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Handful Of Bluetooth Products On Way
Chicago — Motorola and wireless headset supplier GN Netcom unveiled their first Bluetooth products during the GlobalXChange show and announced plans for late-year shipments....
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Wireless Phones, PDAs Trade Places During PCIA Show
Chicago — Like employees of undercapitalized web startups caught in a wave of downsizing, wireless phones and PDAs are taking on additional job responsibilities....
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Wireless Industry, Web Forge New Links
The wireless industry forged new links to the Internet and portable computing devices at Wireless 2000, where industry players allied themselves with Web portals...
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Panasonic’s DVD-A/V Decks Expected To Ship Next Week
SECAUCUS, N.J. — An announcement is expected next week from Panasonic that the company has begun shipping Panasonic and Technics brand DVD-Audio/Video players to...
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Onkyo’s Triple-Brand Strategy Is Under Way
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,...
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Abundance Of Home, Portable Audio To Hit CES
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...
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Harman Readies Custom Initiative
Middletown, Conn. — The group formed last year by Harman International to make its consumer brands more responsive to the custom market plans a...
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Sony Expands Internet Audio Plans
Sony went to CES with expanded plans for Internet audio portables in 2000. The company announced plans for a third SDMI-compliant solid-state portable, this...
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Solid-State Portables Go Format-Agnostic
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...
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Wadia Sees Hales Acquisition As Promoting Hearty Growth Acquisition As Promoting
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...
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Home-Control Systems Tighten Ties To PCs, Web
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....
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DVD-Audio, Multichannel SACD Moving Ahead
The DVD Audio and Super Audio CD formats continued to evolve at CES, where Philips demonstrated multichannel SACD and hardware suppliers revealed that Matsushita...
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Namakichi Readies Next SoundSpace Integrated Systems
Nakamichi has firmed up shipment dates for its next wave of integrated SoundSpace stereo and home theater systems, and it announced plans to offer...
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HK Readies CD-R/RW, Carousel DVD, DVD-Audio
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...
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DVD-Audio Idles, SACD In Gear
DVD-Audio/Video players will be lined up at CES like jets queued up at a fogged-in airport waiting for clearance to fly to Las Vegas...
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Networks Drag On Digital 5.1 Broadcasts
The top three TV networks are moving at varying speeds — slow, slower, and even slower — to deliver Dolby Digital 5.1-channel audio with...
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Portable Player/Recorders: Next Step In Internet Audio
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....
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12 Companies Form DVD-RW Promo Group
TOKYO, Japan – Twelve companies have joined forces to “formulate promotional activities for products based on the Pioneer-developed DVD-RW disc recording format,” according to...
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EchoStar Reveals Expanded Capabilities For Its Service
EchoStar took the wraps off a number of new products designed to expand the capabilities of the satellite service during the SBCA show in...
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Pioneer Unveils New DVD, Video Lineups
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...
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CEA, NCTA Reach Digital Cable Agreement
Two of four long-awaited compatibility standards for digital television and digital cable systems have been ironed out in new voluntary agreements between the Consumer...
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FCC Denies Sinclair DTV Petition
The Federal Communications Commission voted 5-0 to deny a petition from Sinclair Broadcasting to modify the digital television standard to include the COFDM signal...
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EchoStar Slaps DirecTv With Suit
EchoStar’s apparent loss of the Ultimate Electronics/SoundTrack retail account to DirecTv has ignited what may become the messiest legal battle in the history of...
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Sony Shows First Widescreen HDTV Monitors, Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Indianapolis – Sony used the CEDIA Expo 2000 to unveil a pair of rear-projection widescreen HDTV monitors for sale this November in the high-end...
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DirecTv Announces A La Carte Package
Taking a somewhat different approach to adding new basic cable networks to its programming lineup, DirecTv announced it will launch next month an a...
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DirecTv Fires Back At EchoStar Suit
The proposed acquisition of a supplier of ethnic television broadcasts by EchoStar is at the center of a new battle in the old war...
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Circuit City Kills Divx
Digital Video Express (Divx), the controversial pay-per-play DVD format backed by Circuit City, is dead. Circuit City Stores, the umbrella company housing the separate...
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DigiVision To Enter Home Theater Market
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...
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FCC Ups Handicapped Provisions
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...
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Sharp Touts LCD, DVD At CEDIA
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...
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JVC Quietly Tests S-VHS-ET Camcorders
Although not openly discussed at its recent dealer meetings, JVC has quietly returned to the Super VHS camcorder business with two models that use...
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Canon Introduces Spring Camcorder Lineup
Canon introduced three “affordably priced” camcorders, two aggressively priced 8mm models, and a new miniDV unit. The digital model — called the ZR10 —...
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Video Revolution Is Mainly Digital
In case you’ve been vacationing on a distant planet recently, the binary system on which our computers and CD players operate has begun to...
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Philips Gains Support For DVD+RW System
Philips’ DVD+RW digital video recording system got a major supporter at CES, when executives with Thomson MultiMedia said they have selected the recording format...