Celebrity Guests Promote the Latest Consumer Technology Technologies and Trends ARLINGTON, Va. -- Award winning actors, musicians, comedians and sports stars all come together at the 2008 International CES[R] to experience the hottest products and technologies in the consumer electronics industry. The 2008 International CES, the world's largest technology...
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The Consumer Electronics Association's (CEA[R]) Product Safety Working Group PSWG announces the release of new and revised TV tip stability educational flyers. These flyers - one for flat panel displays and one for CRT displays - provide information to consumers to help in the safe installation of...
NEW YORK -- Consumer electronics continues to be a red-hot category, luring consumers with irresistible product features and prices. The popularity of the products has created a flourishing market for related accessories and consumable items as well. Most of the current boom is a result of the advent of...
LAS VEGAS -- In the self-proclaimed Entertainment Capital of the World, tech companies are starring this week: Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL have huge tents begging attendees at the Consumer Electronics Show to come in and be wowed. Perennial exhibitors such as Panasonic, Samsung and LG were on hand. Yamaha,...
WASHINGTON -- The Consumer Electronics Association (CEAR) today announced the winners of the sixth annual Academy of Digital Television Pioneers DTV Academy Awards. The award winners were honored during a luncheon at CEA's Entertainment Technology Policy Summit, which is being held through Thursday in Washington, D.C.
Consumers are particularly keen to add high-definition TV to their homes, with HD expected to account for 79% of total digital TV shipments in the U.S. in 2008, the Consumer Electronics Association reports. Consumers are particularly keen to add high-definition TV to their homes,...
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The Consumer Electronics Association (CEAR) today announced a partnership with Digital Media Wire, producer of the Future of Television Forum and the Digital Music Forum. CEA will invest in, sponsor and help promote the Future of Television Forum, next scheduled for November 16-17, 2006, and the Digital...
By Nancy Hollingshead, Tulsa World, Okla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 2--It's beginning to look a lot like a high-tech Christmas. Shoppers flooded Tulsa area stores last Friday as the official start of the holiday buying season began, and many...
ARLINGTON, Va. -- Father's Day gifts could account for more than $9 billion in spending on consumer electronics products this year, according to research released today by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEAR). According to Gadgets for Dad: A Father's Day Study, 24 percent of adults intend to buy a CE...
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The following statement was issued today by Consumer Electronics Association (CEAR) President and CEO Gary Shapiro in response to the House Energy and Commerce Committee approval of the Digital Television Transition Act of 2005, setting a hard date for the end of analog television broadcasting:
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The following statement was released today by Consumer Electronics Association (CEAR) President and CEO Gary Shapiro in response to the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's NTIA call for public comment on its proposed rules to establish a national coupon program for digital converter boxes:
ARLINGTON, Va. -- While only 17 percent of consumers currently own a flat panel display FPD, 49 percent say their next television purchase will be some type of flat panel technology, according to research from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEAR). CEA's study, Display Opportunities: Present and Future, presents both opportunities...
By Robert L. Borchardt President and CEO Recoton Corporation Yes, there will be a holiday season despite the changes in our personal and business lives as a result of the N.Y. World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania disasters. All of us had our...
LOW PRICES HELPED DVD SETA RECORD FOR NEW-GADGET ADOPTION. In 1972, Sony introduced the first home videocassette recorder in the United States, the U-Matic. Two years later, the company logged sales of 34,000, with an average wholesale price of almost $600 -- the equivalent of more than $2,000 today....
ARLINGTON, Va. -- Questions of what will happen to millions of analog TVs following next year's transition to digital television DTV have been answered with news that is also good for the environment, according to a new study released today by the Consumer Electronics Association CEA([R]). Indeed, results of the...