Audio

Dolby Laboratories has developed a more efficient backward-compatible extension to its Dolby Digital 5.1-channel audio codec for use by digital-cable and satellite-TV operators who...

It will take more than lower prices, higher storage capacities and an expanded selection of easy-to-use authorized download services to move compressed-music portables into...

WAYNE, N.J.– Two new 6.1-channel HTiB systems that JVC will ship in July will feature DVD recorders, but the company will delete a HDD...

The Professional Audio Video Retailers Association (PARA) expects a rebound in attendance at this year’s annual management conference compared to last year when a...

Swampscott, Mass. – Start-up ZVOX Audio has begun marketing a set-top TV-sound system that amplifies, widens and deepens the sound stage at $199. The...

A-BUS/direct distributed-audio technology is increasing its U.S. presence and late this year or early next, products incorporating a related technology, A-BUS/active, could hit the...

Two-channel audio components haven’t gone the way of Chubby Checker, Vaughn Meader, and audio-only magazines. The audio industry embraced its two-channel heritage here at...

The universe of all-in-one DVD players is expanding, but can consumers hear them in the electronics retail space? At CES, Samsung, Toshiba and Integra...

Satellite radio is increasing its potential in the home market, in large part as a component in upscale distributed-audio systems. At CES, Audio Design...

There’s more than one way to make a distributed-audio system. Just ask Audio Design Associates (ADA), The B&W Group, IntelliNet, Russound and technology developer...

Home Automation Inc. (HAI) unveiled a new lower priced in-wall LCD keypad that controls its Omni series of home automation controllers, which were recently...

In the audio industry, Las Vegas was the place to hook up. During CES, suppliers introduced traditional audio components that use Ethernet connections to...

Yamaha is adding a custom-install option to its wireless MusicCAST system, which uses built-in Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b) technology and wired Ethernet connections to distribute...

To eliminate objections from the decor-minded, Pioneer plans to offer HTiBs with plasma-friendly speakers and with a proprietary technology that it adopted for the...

Shell Energy Services is putting in its first appearance at CES with a home-management system that lets users monitor and control home systems remotely...

In an HTiB selection that the company is expanding to six SKUs from two, Samsung plans to offer plasma-friendly speakers, DVD-Audio and an HDD...

Polk plans to expand its custom selection with the May shipment of a speaker series that bridges the gap between the RCi entry-level series...

Kenwood will sprinkle a variety of technologies into its expanded selection of 11 new HTiB systems, including Dolby Virtual Speaker and Dolby Headphone, Dolby...

Windows Media 9 decoding and virtual-surround technology will put in an appearance in receivers at the Pioneer booth. Windows Media 9 will appear in...

TWICE: Has the audio industry taken the first steps toward turning the business around? Franklin Karp, Harvey: It has begun, and not a minute...

Digital Radio TWICE: What new product categories could help turn the industry around? Satellite radio in the home? HD Radio (digital AM/FM)? Don Milks,...

TWICE: In the first half, factory-level home audio sales, excluding home radio, fell below aftermarket autosound levels for the first time ever. Is this...

TWICE: Are enough storefronts capable of demonstrating step-up alternatives to expose consumers to the step-up alternatives, given the growth of big-box retailers and the...

TWICE: We’ve talked about demonstration, presentation and product simplification. But will a focus on these factors be enough to put us back on the...

TWICE: Some of the things we’re talking about presuppose that people do a lot of music listening in their home. But don’t most people...

Retail advertising of headphone MP3 portables surged again this year, and once again, 10 brands accounted for more than three-fourths of the advertised models,...

A group of industry veterans banded together with an Asian factory in a joint venture that will market custom installation products direct to dealers...

Sonance is raising its level of field support and pushing decision making to the regional level to respond more quickly to dealer needs, sales...

Two new music-download services, MusicMatch and Napster 2.0, are taking a cue from Apple’s iTunes Store, delivering subscription-free services with per-song download fees and...

Custom suppliers are turning increasingly to 12- and 16-channel amplifiers to drive down the cost and complexity of routing music throughout a house. In...

For its first product introduction since its purchase by Linear, SpeakerCraft went to the CEDIA Expo to launch its first two multizone/multisource receivers, its...

Cable operators and cable-content providers are giving retailers more opportunities to sell the latest generation of surround-sound audio gear. Cable multiple system operators (MSOs)...

A do-it-yourself (DIY) home automation system, available Aug. 1 from Smarthome, will give consumers the ability to use any browser-equipped PC or mobile device...

Price isn’t everything in the home-theater-in-a-box (HTiB) business after all. The price-sensitive market generates most of its unit and dollar volume in systems at...

Digital Innovations, developer of Skip Doctor disc-scratch-repair products, has begun offering its first electronics products — a pair of headphone MP3 player/recorders that transmit...