Video

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...

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Sensory Science introduced its second Dual-Deck DVD player and VCR deck. The dual-deck (model DVR-4000) will be marketed under the Sensory...

The public battle in the press between the Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) industry and start-up company Northpoint Technology over the issue of spectrum sharing...

Two groups of companies that had been working on digital video copy protection watermarking solutions for DVDs and potentially DTV signals signed a binding...

LITTLETON, COLO. — Not to be outdone in the integrated PVR/satellite decoder space it pioneered, EchoStar recently announced a promotion on its new Dish...

BALA CYNWYD, PA. — Pegasus announced two new Spring promotions to entice additional DirecTV customer enlistments. The first promo, called “Spring Ahead With Starz!,”...

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Macro Imaging Technology (MIT), based here, said it is ready to sell to U.S. distributors and retailers a line of...