Tag archive: consumer electronics association

According to a recent article at Public Knowledge, cables companies are pushing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reconsider a rule regarding the encryption of the basic cable tier. During the early nineties, a rule was adopted by the FCC to make sure cable companies kept a portion of the broadcast stations completely unencrypted. Commonly known as “basic cable” by the public, these stations can be accessed without the… Read More

According to a report from the Consumer Electronics Association, CES 2012 had approximately 153,000 visitors on the show floor this year. Compared to the 140,000 visitors that attended CES 2011, this constitutes a 9.3 percent increase in total attendees. The CEA claims that this was the largest show in the history of the event and approximately one fifth of the attendees were from areas outside the United States. The show also saw a 15 percent… Read More

According to Microsoft's head of corporate communications Frank Shaw, the software giant plans to discontinue the relationship with the Consumer Electronics Show after the upcoming show during January 2012. In previous years, Microsoft has taken up a significant portion of space in the Central Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The reason behind pulling out of the event is attributed to different timing on software and hardware… Read More

It Was Only Yesterday… 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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

“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… Read More

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… Read More

Following a record-breaking first quarter, manufacturer-to-dealer sales of digital television (DTV) products continued to soar through April 2004, with 309,098 units sold and more than $413 million generated in revenue for the month, according to figures released today by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). These April factory-to-dealer sales attest to the continued strength of DTV sales, which marked a 76 percent increase in units… Read More

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced today that its Mobile Electronics Committee (R6) has adopted a new standard for mobile electronics, designated CEA-2012 -MOST Network Application.The standard provides a connectivity solution that makes it easier to install and use any type of aftermarket digital multimedia product in an in-vehicle network. CEA-2012 is based on the MOST (MediaOriented Systems Transport) specification, which is… Read More