Audio

Archos is rolling out an expanded selection of portable hard-disc-drive (HDD) audio/video players and plans a downsized HDD music portable that will use a...

Niles Audio will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year with the broadest product launch in its history and the completion of an expanded engineering...

Teac will relaunch its ultra-high-end Esoteric line after an absence of about a decade while expanding its table-radio selection and launching other new products....

Six aluminum-finish products planned for Sherwood’s Newcastle series include a 6.1-channel receiver with digital amplification and Newcastle’s first receiver to upconvert video inputs to...

Bantam Interactive, the online marketer of compressed-music portables, is expanding into new product categories and into brick-and-mortar retail distribution. The company, which launched its...

International tensions and slow economic growth have curtailed traffic in audio/ video specialty stores, restricted the flow of new jobs in the custom-installation pipeline...

Port Washington, N.Y.— The overall portable-audio market might be down, but sales of Internet audio portables keep going up, NPD Techworld found. Retail-level unit...

Cirrus Logic has indefinitely delayed the production of a pair of chipsets billed as suitable for CE products that would wirelessly stream high-quality audio...

Streaming/download service MusicNet is joining rival Pressplay in allowing authorized downloaded music to be burned to disc and transferred to secure music portables. The...

Warner Music said it supports the DVD Forum’s plans to study the creation of a dual-layer CD/DVD-audio disc that, like hybrid CD/SACD discs, would...

DTS’s 5.1-channel audio format has been adopted by the DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) Project as an option to its DTV standard. The Project is...

The majority of custom installers polled by CEDIA experienced growth in the first half of 2002, and on average they predict double-digital percentage gains...

Atlantic Technology has developed its first electronics components and a line of custom-oriented speakers to reposition itself to tap further into the high-end audio...

The first radios to incorporate software tuning won’t be available next year because they’re already here, Motorola admitted. Last month, Motorola said the first...

Installation-training schools proliferated in the mobile electronics industry in the mid- to late 1980s, and now they’re coming to the custom home-electronics industry. Two...

The lineup of 5.1-channel HDTV programs is growing, but not at a rate that has made it easy for retailers to promote and demonstrate...

DTS is laying the groundwork for a 2003 marketing campaign that will promote its 5.1-channel surround format as a premium audio option for satellite...

Oxmoor, a Birmingham, Ala.-based commercial-sound company, entered the residential market during the CEDIA Expo. The company has been the exclusive provider of sound systems...

Harman Kardon introduced its first A-Bus-compatible receivers, its first receiver with digital Class D amplification, and other products during CEDIA’s Expo. All of the...

Nirotek America of Lawndale, Calif., demonstrated the first system that delivers 6.1-channel surround sound from two satellite speakers and a powered subwoofer. The Niro-branded...

Authorized online distributors of Pressplay’s subscription-based music-download and music-streaming service have begun to support transfers of downloaded music to Internet audio portables, but the...

Meridian brought digital audio connectability between DVD-Audio players and digital processors to lower price points. Earlier this year, Meridian upgraded its card-upgradable 800 DVD-A/V...

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...