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Apple, Compaq Adding Recordable DVD Drives
News Sales of consumer digital camcorders, for example, which shoot movies that can be quickly transferred to a PC for editing, swelled to $3.3bn last year, or 5.7 million units, according to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
[January 9, 2001, 17:02]
Trade Group: P2P Not Illegal Or Immoral
News But the heightening rhetoric leveled at people who download movies and music off the Net, and the bills introduced in Congress that would force electronics companies to change the way they make their products, have brought matters to an...
[September 18, 2002, 8:02]
DVD Technology Faces Legal Test
News Kaleidescape creates expensive consumer electronics networks that upload the full contents of as many as 500 DVDs to a home server, and allow the owner to browse through the movies without later using the DVDs themselves.
[December 8, 2004, 12:40]
Microsoft And Intel Join Next-gen DVD Fray
News Among them: HD DVD requires that movies may be copied to a consumer's hard drive, making it easier for people to send movies around home networks; HD DVD supports regular DVD recordings on the flip side of the disc, letting people sell hybrid...
[September 27, 2005, 9:10]
Will PlayStation 2 Rule The Living Room?
News The consumer electronics giant may eventually have to go with the ability to play DVD movies, said Gerry Kaufhold, an analyst at multimedia researcher In-Stat Group. We have no intentions of putting this technology into any other form of consumer...
[March 4, 1999, 11:01]
Eye Opener: Microsoft's War For The Living Room
News When the Japanese consumer electronics maker announced details of its heavily anticipated PlayStation2 two weeks ago, its plans went far beyond just another game machine. Ultimately, the idea is to have multifunction set-top boxes that not only can...
[September 27, 1999, 14:10]
US Seeks To Stop TV Pirates
News I think what many content companies hope is that once they have a foot in the door and the Commission is regulating devices, asking it to do other things in the digital sector, like protecting movies or cable TV, gets a lot easier," said Mike...
[October 28, 2003, 12:30]
US Report: DVD Seeing Off Divx Threat
News The reason: Consumer electronics retail chain Circuit City Stores Inc.a strong proponent of Divx -- has failed to realise its ambitious plans for the digital video market, according to industry executives and analysts.
[September 10, 1998, 7:11]
A Year Ago: DVD Seeing Off Divx Threat
News The reason: Consumer electronics retail chain Circuit City Stores Inc.a strong proponent of Divx -- has failed to realise its ambitious plans for the digital video market, according to industry executives and analysts.
[September 10, 1999, 7:00]
Studios Race To Choke DVD Copying
News Consumer electronics companies, which are part of the industry groups working on the issue, say they're ready to comply as long as the new technology doesn't throw too many roadblocks in front of consumers, preventing them from creating home...
[February 4, 2002, 15:25]
Compaq Steps Closer To PCTV
News But Compaq, among others, believes the future for the home computer industry lies in consumer electronics. And at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, the company showed off the upcoming iPaq Music Center, a home MP3 jukebox with a CD player...
[April 25, 2001, 14:22]
SEVA: Sensor-Enhanced Video Annotation
White Papers Advances in consumer electronics technologies have led to a proliferation of digital cameras and camcorders that record images and video in digital form and have encouraged users to create ever-larger personal libraries of pictures and movies.
[February 10, 2006, 0:01]
Coming Attraction On DVD Players: PC Content
News The Santa Clara, California-based consumer-electronics maker on Monday announced its new DVD player, the Go-Video D2730. The company will demonstrate the device at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and will begin selling it for $250 (about...
[December 17, 2002, 8:09]
Sony Predicts Rebirth Of Television
News Sony's future may be coming full circle with a product that helped establish the company as a consumer-electronics giant. Other technology and consumer-electronics companies, such as Microsoft, Intel and Philips, have recently begun exploring...
[January 10, 2003, 7:28]
PC Giants To Grab Spotlight At Electronics Show
News When the mammoth Consumer Electronics Show kicks off Saturday in Las Vegas, household names in the PC world, such as Microsoft and Intel, will take centrestage. To be sure, the biggest consumer electronics names will be there too, but the energy...
[January 4, 2001, 11:18]
DivX Software Delivers Movable Media
News DivXNetworks unveiled a new version of its compression technology that promises to let Internet users shrink video files on the PC to play back on a range of consumer electronics devices. The San Diego-based company on Wednesday released DivX 5.03...
[January 31, 2003, 8:17]
Blank Blu-ray Disks Shipping
News For consumers, the format war will be a headache as they will have to remember to buy PCs that are compatible with their consumer electronics equipment that is compatible with the movies they buy. PC and consumer electronics companies, however, are...
[April 11, 2006, 10:40]
HP To Resell Blue IPod
News Hewlett-Packard said on Thursday that it will start selling an HP-branded version of Apple Computer's iPod this summer as part of a broad expansion into consumer electronics. The deal comes amid a broader announcement from HP of a number of...
[January 9, 2004, 14:20]
Tech Giants Get Together For Home Networking
News Consumer-electronics giant Sony has been promoting this vision for several years now because it has investments in both content, such as movies, music and games, and hardware, such as PCs, consumer-electronics products and gaming consoles.
[June 19, 2003, 10:58]
Home Networking Buzzing At CES
News That is the vision to be presented this week at the massive Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. And if she wants to record it on her video cassette recorder, she could push another button and do that too," said Jeff Joseph, a spokesman...
[January 7, 1999, 14:35]
