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Samsung Cams Go Wireless
Samsung used a product showcase in New York to announce new additions to its flash-memory-based Sports camcorder line that use wireless auxiliary lenses to...
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SUCCESS STORY: Sony 40” KDLV40XBR1 Widescreen LCD TV
Less than a year since the christening of the high-performance BRAVIA LCD TV series, Sony has risen to the top of the large-screen LCD...
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MiniDV’s Dominance Ebbs As New Formats Advance
Unit sales of digital camcorders will likely be flat in 2006, while dollars may lose ground. According to Liz Cutting, senior analyst, The NPD...
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Pricing, 1,080p Color 2006 TV Sales
Although falling prices will continue to highlight big-screen TV successes in the second half of 2006, vendors and analysts are looking at “future proofing”...
Blu-ray/DVD
Sony: New Titles Key To Blu-ray Disc Plans
Sony plans to grow sales of the pending Blu-ray Disc (BD) format behind a steady stream of new release titles, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment...
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Samsung Rolls Out 30 New LCD SKUs
NEW YORK — LCD TV is taking center stage in Samsung’s 2006/2007 television line as the company continues rolling out a total of 30...
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Lite-On To Ship Recorder With Double-Layer Support
Lite-On IT said it will ship next month its first DVR/DVD recorder combination product that will support double-layer recordable DVD+R DL media. The unit,...
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Thomson Seeks New Video Niche
After a long evaluation of the market, Thomson has decided not to re-enter the camcorder category so much as to attempt to create a...
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Flat-TV Shares Reshuffle
Plasma TV market leader Panasonic saw a huge jump in retail shelf share this month, while Sony reclaimed the LCD TV shelf-share lead from...
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Flat-Panel Makers Brace For Spike In Sales
Bracing for a strong year in flat-panel sales, television manufacturers are taking steps to avoid out-of-stock conditions that restrained 2005 growth levels late in...
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Industry Needs To Explain End Of Analog TV
Establishment recently of the Feb. 17, 2009, hard date for the end of U.S. analog television broadcasting has created an urgent need for a...
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Humax Markets DirecTV LCDs
Looking to offer a plug-and-play solution for DirecTV adoption, Humax is rolling out a pair of its first LCD TVs with built-in DirecTV tuning....
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JVC Intros HDD Camcorder Disk-Burning Dock
JVC introduced a DVD burner/camcorder dock for its hard disk drive (HDD) Everio camcorders at the PMA show, here. The Everio Share Station (CU-VD10)...
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MovieBeam HDTV Service Hits Retail Shelves
MovieBeam, a stand-alone video-on-demand service tested by The Walt Disney Co. two years ago, resurfaced Feb. 14 selling its standard- and high-definition movies through...
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Proview Expands LCD TV Line
LCD TV and IT monitor manufacturer Proview said it saw strong 2005 sales for LCD TVs and is expecting its consumer electronics business to...
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V, Inc. Expanding Flat-Panel Assortment
V, Inc., which designs, imports and markets aggressively priced flat-panel TVs under the Vizio brand, is adding two HD plasma displays and a 32W-inch...
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Westinghouse Shows 56W” 2,160p LCD TV
Westinghouse Digital Electronics, a leading LCD TV resource, used International CES to unveil a range of new products, highlighted by a 56W-inch LCD TV...
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Envision Peripherals Expands AOC Flat-Panel TV Lines
Envision Peripherals (EPI), a flat-panel display resource, is expanding its AOC-branded flat-panel TV lines, with the company’s first plasma display while at the same...
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Panasonic Inks OCAP Deal With Comcast
Panasonic highlighted plasma at International CES as the center of its “HD Lifestyle,” whether it was the prototype 103W-inch, 1,080p display at its booth...
Blu-ray/DVD
Sony Unveils ’06 Blu-ray, BRAVIA Lines
Plans for Sony’s first Blu-ray Disc players, key new BRAVIA LCD TVs and the company’s first hard disk drive-based digital camcorder were all part...
Home Satellite
Tracking Satellite HD Options
Although the nation’s two primary direct-to-home satellite TV suppliers are moving to significantly increase their HDTV offerings, both have been offering HD channels for...
Home Satellite
Satellite Providers Continue MPEG-4 Transitions
The HDTV programming avalanche continues with a roar at International CES as the two major satellite providers showcase their new plans in Las Vegas....
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Television Manufacturers Welcome Adjusted DTV Tuner Mandate
Television manufacturers heading into International CES were for the most part thankful that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) accelerated its schedule for implementation of...
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VOOM HD Grows On Dish
EchoStar’s Dish Network will announce at International CES that it will carry an expanded lineup of 15 VOOM high definition channels from Rainbow Media....
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Retail Opportunities And Challenges Await IPTV
Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) offers a brave new world of opportunity and challenges to providers, manufacturers and eventually retailers, but the road to success...
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AOC Bows $1,799 HD Plasma Set
Envision Peripherals Inc. (EPI) introduced a 42W-inch high-definition plasma display it will sell under its AOC brand at a $1,799 expected street price. Model...
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Report: Sharp Takes Back Top LCD Spot
Sony’s top ranking for LCD TV shelf-share in October proved to be short lived as Sharp rebounded to take the No. 1 position in...
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Neuros Offers PSP Recorder
Neuros Technology International, based here, said it is now shipping an MPEG-4 video recorder designed for use with Sony’s PSP handheld video game player....
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Quixel: Advanced TV Sales Set Q3 Records
LCD TVs in the 30W-inch to 32W-inch screen sizes represented the bulk of LCD TV sales for the first time, during the third quarter...
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HANNspree Opens San Francisco Flagship Gallery Store
HANNspree California, a manufacturer of imaginatively-styled LCD TVs, opened its flagship U.S. gallery store Oct. 29 in San Francisco’s Union Square. The 9,500-square-foot facility,...
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Panasonic Offers Custom-Built Plasma Frames
Panasonic has introduced a line of custom-built frames to complement its 42W-inch and 50W-inch plasma televisions. The company said the frames, which in some...
Blu-ray/DVD
Warner Plans Movies In Blu-ray Format
Warner Brothers Entertainment announced that it now plans to release high-definition movies in the Blu-ray Disc format in addition to HD DVD, making it...
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V, Inc. Slashes Flat-Panel Pricing With 37W-Inch LCD TV
V, Inc. said it will ship in mid-November a VIZIO-branded fully integrated 37W-inch high-definition LCD TV at a $1,499.99 suggested retail price, one of...
Blu-ray/DVD
Panasonic’s Tsuga Anticipates Blu-ray Victory In Format War
In the eyes of Panasonic’s digital storage and software technologies executive officer, Kasuhiro Tsuga, the next-generation optical disc format war is virtually over, and...
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Norcent Ships New LCD-TV Family
Norcent said it is now shipping a new family of LCD-TV monitors comprising four models in the 20-inch, 27W-inch and 32W-inch screen sizes. Three...
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Samsung’s Shin Reviews TV Plans
Recently in town for Samsung’s Global Road Show, Sang Heung Shin, Samsung’s color TV sales and marketing team visual display division senior VP, met...
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DWIN Shows DuoVision Packages At CEDIA Expo
DWIN Electronics introduced at CEDIA Expo, here, three new DuoVision dual-display systems offering the ability for two display devices to share the same video...
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Hitachi Postpones LCoS RPTV Entry
Hitachi told dealers at CEDIA Expo, here, that it has postponed plans to deliver this year a previously announced line of LCoS-based rear-projection HDTV...
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JVC Announces 1,080p D-ILA Chip Production
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC) said it will begin volume production this month of a new 0.7-inch D-ILA (Direct-Drive Image Light Amplifier) 1,080p...
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Trans Global To Market Hisense TV
Hisense Electronics, one of China’s largest TV manufacturers, has signed on Trans Global Consulting and Marketing Group (TGC), based here, to launch products under...
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Epoq Expands Flat-Panel TV Line With LCDs, Plasmas
Titan Global Commerce, based here, said it has expanded its value-priced Epoq Renaissance Series of high-definition flat-panel televisions with four large-format LCD TVs. and...