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When TDG released our Advanced Mobile Operating Systems report in February of this year 2006 - a report presenting the case as to why mobile Linux and Windows would both pick up market share at the cost of Symbian’s dominance – we received quite a bit of feedback. While much of the feedback was positive, not surprisingly some of it was negative - the cost of being the first to officially offend the incumbent!
Manufacturer-to-dealer sales of consumer electronics will reach a record-high of $125.7 billion in 2005, according to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). These sales mark an 11 percent increase over the $113.5 billion dollars sold in 2004. The figures are part of CEA’s bi-annual U.S. Consumer Electronics Sales and Forecasts report. The report was released yesterday following a presentation by CEA Director of Industry Analysis Sean Wargo, during the International CES, the world’s largest annual technology tradeshow, being held January 6-9 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) today announced the release of a new market research survey on teen consumer electronics (CE) consumers.
Nearly all teens in this phone survey, 98 percent, said they watched a TV in the past 30 days, 91 percent used a DVD player, 87 percent used a desktop computer and 86 percent used a VCR. Substantial majorities also reported using wireless phones, videogame consoles and computer-based CD burner/writers over the last month.
One of the most thought about questions has to be the following:
Q: If DVDs are so popular, why introduce a new format?
A: DVD players are now in 70% of homes, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. Prices
The following statement was issued today by Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) President and CEO Gary Shapiro regarding the The Intellectual Property Protection Act (H.R. 2391):
“On behalf of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), I express grave concern over several titles included in H.R. 2391. This legislation combines several intellectual property-related bills into one piece of omnibus legislation. In total it is a lot like a Clint Eastwood movie. Some of it is good. Some of it is bad. And some of it is downright ugly.
“We support the Artists’ Rights and Theft Protection (ART) segment of this legislation, and we appreciate the willingness of Congress to make accommodations that recognize our concerns.
Consumer purchases of electronics, such as digital cameras, personal media players, CD/DVD players, digital TVs and personal video recorders, are estimated to reach a record $101 billion this year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association’s U.S. Consumer Electronics Sales & Forecasts. As the market for digital devices continues to grow, Intel and Microsoft are demonstrating a joint vision of the new “digital home” where various devices are interconnected and consumers experience digital entertainment in new and exciting ways.
New consumer research from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) finds high satisfaction among digital camera owners and a potential burgeoning market for media servers. The surveys found thatsome 84 percent of current owners are satisfied with their digital camera and 53 percent of consumers are interested in having the ability to store music on a PC and listen to it anywhere in thehouse. The surveys were released here Monday during CEA’s annual Industry Forum, which concluded Wednesday. The Industry Forum unites key executives from top technology companies to discuss markettrends, business strategy and the future of the consumer electronics industry.
As a prelude to “Digital Cameras Get Competition,” – a panel session investigating the impact of digital camera phones on the traditional digital still camera market – CEA Senior Industry Analyst Sean Wargo presented the results of CEA’s digital camera survey of online adults. The survey showed that 61 percent of online adults have a digital still camera and that 49 percent consider it their primary camera. Current CEA shipment figures show that 39 percent of total US households own a digital camera.
As professional football prepares to kick off an expanded season of high-definition broadcasts, HDTV home entertainment grows in both excitement and convenience next week with the first retailavailability of a new line of 14 RCA Digital Cable Ready HDTV models that feature both an Integrated ATSC Tuner-Decoder for over-the-air digital television and Digital Cable Ready circuitry forplug-and-play access to digital cable HDTV programming.
Ten of the Digital Cable Ready models utilize Texas Instruments’ Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology for outstanding picture performance with lightweight, compact cabinet design.
RCA Among First to Deliver Digital Cable Ready Models
“Senior industry sources, speaking to gamesindustry.biz over the weekend, have indicated that it is extremely likely that Xbox 2 – currently codenamed Xenon – will be unveiled during Bill Gates’ keynote address at the International Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas on January 5th, 2005.
Gates, Microsoft chairman and chief-software-architect, was unveiled as the keynote speaker by the Consumer Electronics Association late last week, prompting speculation that Microsoft would use the platform to unveil Xbox 2.”
Lets hope that Gamesindustry.biz has their information right. The last report that we linked to from our site had Microsoft wanting to purchase Japanese console maker Nintendo. That report turned out to be taken out of context.
Proposed regulatory restraints on digital audio broadcasting (DAB) threaten to stifle innovation, chill technological progress, and deny U.S. consumers the non-commercial recording rights upon whichthey have come to rely, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) argued today in comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The filing came in response to a Notice of Inquiry(NOI) issued by the FCC regarding DAB content control.
“This NOI is the latest example of the content community – in this case the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) – seeking to limit consumers’ recording rights and rollback the landmark ‘Betamax’ decision, which maintains that manufacturers have the right to sell a product if it is capable of any commercially significant non-infringing uses,” said CEA President and CEO Gary Shapiro. “Interfering with radio broadcasters’ shift to digital broadcasting would choke off advancement and modernization. Not only is that un-American, it’s totally without merit.”
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