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Parent Company PML of Paradigm, MartinLogan Buys GoldenEar From Audioquest
PML Sound International, parent of Paradigm, Anthem, and MartinLogan, acquired GoldenEar from The Quest Group. Will engineering-focused leadership unlock GoldenEar's full potential post-AudioQuest?
New Slappa 600 Pro HardBody Case
The new 600 Pro HardBody case broadens the SLAPPA CD storage line by introducing the largest capacity CD storage case of its kind to date. The 600 Pro's ultra-portable design, featuring sturdy …
DIRECTV Tosses Lifeline to VOOM Customers
VOOM customers, despairing over the loss of their HD service, which goes dark at the end of this month, have been thrown a lifeline by DIRECTV. DIRECTV is offering a $200 mail-in rebate on its HD …
1080p DLP TVs Enter Volume Production
Texas Instruments recently announced that its 1920 x 1080 high-definition (HD) resolution DLP TV technology has been fully qualified and is in production shipment to customers. DLP TVs are expected …
HandHeld Entertainment Launches Digital Indie Downloads
HandHeld Entertainment today announced plans to launch a large-scale digital download system populated with content from independent filmmakers from around the world. The system's content will …
Dolby Pro Logic II Approved for iBiquity HD Radio
Dolby Laboratories and iBiquity Digital Corporation have approved Dolby® Pro Logic® II as an audio format for the iBiquity HD Radio™ system. Dolby Pro Logic II technology provides a high-quality, …
Wolfson Announces New Chips for Portable Electronics
Wolfson Microelectronics plc believes that growth in new and existing classes of high volume digital consumer electronics, requiring high fidelity audio, will drive demand for mixed-signal …
CEA Announces New Color Coding Standard for Home Theater
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) today announced the publication of an updated Home Theater Color Coding standard, designed to simplify consumers' installation of home theater systems. The …
Sonic Introduces Blu‑ray Creator Software
Sonic Solutions today introduced Sonic Blu-ray Creator(TM), the world's first commercial authoring system to enable high-end production facilities and major motion picture studios to create titles …
Design Your Own Seating on Elite HT Website
Elite Home Theater Seating offers a new innovative option to home theater designers and builders. With its interactive but user friendly website, today's home theater aficionados can customize …
LCD Display Costs Expected to Drop 62% by 2008
DisplaySearch, the worldwide leader in flat panel display (FPD) market research and consulting, has developed a new report which reveals current and future panel costs, material prices, depreciation, …
Portable MP3 Players to Achieve Critical Mass in 2005
JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM), today reported that U.S. shipments of MP3 players will grow 35% to 18.2 million in 2005 and maintain a compound annual growth …
Meedio Essentials HTPC Software only $20!
Meedio announced today that its developer community has submitted 200 plugins, themes, and extensions to the Meedio Add-In Directory (MAID). To celebrate, the company is discounting its Meedio …
Xbox 360 to be Shown on MTV May 12
MTV: Music Television and Microsoft Corp. today announced a global marketing alliance to unveil the next-generation Xbox(R) video game system on MTV channels in the United States, Asia Pacific and …
ViewSonic Introduces 2 New Commercial Flat‑Panels
ViewSonic(R) Corp., a worldwide leader in visual display products, today introduced two large-screen, flat-panel displays designed for digital signage, videoconferencing and other commercial …
Mitsubishi Introduces 1080p DLP HDTVs
Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc., today unveiled the consumer electronics industry's most advanced HDTV receiver/controller, the HD-6000. The HD-6000, which will be available at selected …
Denon Adds XM Satellite to AVR‑4806
Denon Electronics today announced that it has added XM Satellite Radio functionality to its recently introduced AVR-4806 multi-zone audio/video receiver. With the addition of an optional XM antenna, …
Panasonic Intros 9 VIERA Flat Panel TVs
Panasonic, the leading brand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known, today unveiled its new line of VIERA series digital high-definition flat panel TVs. The line includes three …
Syntax Groups New Olevia 42‑inch LCD TV
Syntax Groups Corporation, one of the fastest-growing manufacturers of LCD TVs in North America, today announced the new 42-inch Olevia widescreen HD built-in LCD TV, its first model to include …
New Yamaha RX‑V4600 Receiver with HDMI
Yamaha Electronics Corporation today introduced the RX-V4600, a new A/V digital home theater receiver with HDMI, Dual i.LINK, HD Radio technology, and YPAO (Yamaha Parametric Room Acoustic …
AgileTV Promptu Voice Activated‑Controlled TV
AgileTV Presents Promptu Voice Activated-Controlled Television AgileTV is aiming to change the way people watch TV, with…
Scientific‑Atlanta MCP‑100 HD DVR with DVD Burner
Building upon its award-winning Explorer 8300 digital video recorder (DVR) platform, Scientific-Atlanta today announced its new MCP-100 Media Center DVR with a built-in DVD burner. This …
RBH Sound MC Series Loudspeakers
RBH Sound's MC Theater Series has turned it up a notch introducing interchangeable speaker systems for home theater and audio enthusiasts, without the bank-breaking investment. Featuring high-quality …
Hitachi Acquires Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Shares and Patents
Hitachi, Ltd. today reached an official agreement with Fujitsu Limited concerning Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Limited (FHP), a joint venture of the two companies, in accordance with a basic …
Pace Micro Announces Tahoe High Definition DVR
Pace Micro Technology, a leading digital set-top box provider specializing in the development of emerging technologies across all television platforms, today announced the launch of its Tahoe High …
Digital Video Cable Extender from Gefen
Gefen today announced the release of its DVI Booster, a small unit that corrects video signal degradation that occurs over stretches of DVI copper cables used to extend a display away from its high …
Consumers Changing the Way they Access Media
Consumer media habits are changing as people watch video-on-demand services through their cable or satellite provider (10 percent in the past month), access news online (11 percent in the past …
Turn Your PC into a Satellite TiVo System
KWorld Computer Co. Ltd., manufacturer of a full line of multi-media processing equipment for the PC marketplace, announces the DVB-S Satellite Receiver System, a single PCI card conversion system …
Yamaha Launches 8 New XM‑Ready Receivers
Yamaha Electronics Corporation today introduced four new affordable A/V digital home theater receivers equipped with XM Satellite Radio capability (XM-Ready) that will enhance and diversify the …