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The Consumer Electronics Association recently asked the Federal Communications Commission to actively ensure compatibility between digital cable equipment and consumer electronics devices. The comments...

Enhancements planned by separate IEEE working groups will enhance the usefulness of wireless-Ethernet standards for entertainment and business applications, the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance...

The Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b) and Wi-Fi5 (802.11a) wireless-network standards will migrate from the PC world to the consumer electronics market in early to mid-2002,...

Vialta, a new vendor of digital home entertainment products, is now shipping a line of multi-functional DVD players called ViDVD, that among other things...

PLUS Corp., a leading supplier of corporate mobile data-grade video projectors, announced it is now selling its first model designed for the home theater...

Sampo America is shipping what it calls the first DVD video player to also playback MP3 music files and digital still photos from DVDs,...

Zenith and NxtWave Communications said they have completed agreements to jointly develop compatible data-transmission enhancements for the VSB modulation system in the Advanced Television...

Broadcom, Genesis Micro Chip and Texas Instruments have collaborated on a consumer electronics extension for the Digital Visual Interface (DVI) cross-platform digital interconnect standard....

Almost 4.3 million DVD players have been sold during the first half, compared to 6.7 million sold during all of 2000, and overall sales...

Guy Demuynck, Philips Consumer Electronics Mainstream products group worldwide CEO, told reporters during a recent trip to the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) that he is...

In addition to unveiling its first I’ART flat-screen direct-view HDTV monitor (see TWICE, Sept. 3, 2001, p. 8), JVC of America used CEDIA Expo...

The 2001 CEDIA Expo promises a bounty of technological innovations in video products, ranging from the first IEEE-1394 digital in-home network systems to the...

Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) should soon begin to grow in popularity, due in part to two key trends: they offer greater viewer choice and...

During its recent line show for press, Pioneer took the wraps off a new line of HDTV monitors and issued an update on the...

The www.divx.com site has returned. This time, however, it is not tied to Circuit City’s pay-per-view DVD subsidiary, but to DivXNetworks, the developer of...

Pinnacle Systems introduced its Pinnacle Studio Version 7 video editing software, including a host of 3D visual effects for making advanced-level home video productions....

Royal Philips Electronics and LG Electronics announced they have signed a definitive agreement to merge the two companies’ cathode ray tube (CRT) businesses into...

Did Florida Gov. Jeb Bush open Pandora’s Box on the Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) industry when he signed his state’s new telecommunications sales tax...

WASHINGTON — The FCC has proposed a rules change that would accelerate the data rate of the wireless IEEE 802.11b HR standard to 54Mbps...

SECAUCUS, N.J. — Panasonic announced plans to ship its second-generation DVD recorder, based on its DVD-RAM disc format technology, this fall. The new unit...

DUNMORE, PA. — Thomson Consumer Electronics said it will close its picture tube manufacturing plant here in August and move operations to Mexico, to...

SAN RAMON, CALIF. — When the Internet Home Alliance announced itself to the world last October, the economic skies were considerably sunnier than they...