Audio

Sunfire expects its sales to resume growth this year with the launch of its first receiver and its third-generation home-theater processor. Late in the...

Infinity is replacing one speaker series and adding a sixth series to help achieve distribution goals. The Alpha series will replace the Interlude series...

New brands and technologies entered the HTiB business to take advantage of the market’s continuing double-digit sales gains. RCA added its high-end Scenium brand...

Sonance plans product and marketing initiatives that it says will expand the architectural-audio market, increase its residential market share, and expand the company’s sales...

The enthusiasm of retail salespeople and Yamaha’s reputation for performance and advanced technology made Yamaha’s RX-V1000 home theater receiver the top-selling receiver in its...

Kenwood’s mainstream audio series gets its first two DVD-AV players, its first 6.1-channel component receivers, and new home-theater-in-a-box (HTiB) features. Also in receivers, Kenwood...

Prices of DVD-Audio players have dropped dramatically, and the software is following. Beginning June 17, Warner Music dropped the $24.98 suggested retail of its...

Sell-through of satellite and terrestrial digital radios will hit 33.7 million units in 2007 from this year’s projected sales of 650,000 satellite units, according...

Gracenote, operator of the online CDDB music-recognition database, wants to extend its CE-industry influence through its first embedded-database solution and through waveform-analysis technology, which...

Elements of Mission’s $35,000 Pilastro speaker pair trickled down to more affordable prices with the launch of the M series during the Home Entertainment...

Advertised Home-Theater-in-a-Box Prices March 2002

SpeakerCraft updated its plans for rolling out an in-wall CD-receiver and a separate home-control touch screen. The in-wall CD-receiver, called SoundStation-1, is due this...

CEDIA (the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association) will continue to offer regional education seminars for installers, but the association is debating whether to...

Niles and SpeakerCraft of Riverside, Calif., signed a cross-licensing agreement that lets both sell their separate lines of pivoting in-ceiling speakers without the threat...

Polk updated its two-year-old RTi speaker series and trimmed it to reduce overlap with its first LSi series of step-up speakers, launched late last...

iRiver, an OEM manufacturer of MP3-CD headphone portables to major CE suppliers in the United States and other countries, has begun marketing its first...

The availability of music-company-authorized downloads will spread now that Liquid Audio finalized a nonexclusive agreement with Universal to act as a digital music service...

Nakamichi Corp. Japan, which filed for bankruptcy protection in District Court here, is an R&D facility that is separate from Nakamichi’s sales and marketing...

Advertised Shelf System Prices January 2001

Dealers eager to promote surround-sound gear are getting an assist from broadcasters, cable networks, and Hollywood studios, which are increasing consumers’ access to surround-sound...

Although September’s CEDIA show has become the launching pad for most custom-install introductions, the Consumer Electronics Show here had its share of custom product...

On the home-system control side at CES, Home Automation Inc. introduced the OmniPro II, the company’s flagship home control system that coordinates operation of...

Companies such as Samsung, Toshiba, and Zenith will enter the home-theater-in-a-box (HTiB) business at CES, and some companies will show the industry’s first HTiBs...

Retail-level sales of home CD’s successors rose dramatically during the first three quarters of the year as supplies opened up and prices fell, but...

Retailers scaled back their promotion of Internet audio portables in the first 10 months of the year following a rapid ramp-up during the year-ago...

Retail-level sales of digital audio recording products withstood the lackluster economy during the first three quarters of the year, an NPD Intelect market tracking...

Hewlett-Packard joined merger partner Compaq in the market for Internet-radio/hard-drive music jukeboxes, but it’s not certain if the two companies will drop one of...

New marketing developments promise to expand the availability of authorized downloadable music. DataPlay announced the adoption of InterTrust’s digital-rights management technology for use in...

A trio of computer-industry companies will launch their first portable 3-inch MP3-CD players, joining Philips in this nascent market segment. The products play low-cost...

D-Tools has extended its selection of custom-installation-management software to include two new programs that automate product ordering for installers and manufacturer sales reps. The...

EMI Records Group announced that it will begin offering DVD-Audio discs in the United States in December, complementing previously announced plans by sister company...

The Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) plenary decided against reconvening in September to evaluate the organization’s future role, and it’s not certain whether the...

The mp3PRO compression format advanced its fortunes in recent weeks on multiple developments, including an agreement between Thomson Multimedia and mp3.com to offer mp3PRO...

Linn launched its first DVD-receiver, expanded its amp selection, and unveiled its first five-way speaker. The multiroom-capable DVD-receiver, the Linn Classik Movie System, ships...

Custom supplier Sonance has crafted a growth plan that it expects to boost sales to $80 million in two years and to $160 million...