Tag archive: RCA

Sometimes the simple ideas are the best, and often times when a good product is announced, people will look at it and wonder why no one else thought of it before. Such is the case with RCA’s (in association with Audiovox, now known as Voxx Internaitonal) new line of USB-based charging solutions. For those of us neck deep in the technological world, charging various devices has become the bane of our lives–especially when on the road. As… Read More

Making a pitch to athletic iPod Shuffle users sick of fighting with tangled headphone cables, RCA on Friday released its new S2501 Jet Stream portable media player. The smallish PMP discards both wires and Bluetooth for proprietary Kleer wireless audio transmission technology, which RCA claims offers better battery life and audio quality. The thin, 3.63-inch tall player offers a 1-inch color LCD for browsing music, viewing photos and… Read More

RCA is hoping to ignite some competition in what's euphemistically called the “value segment” of the personal digital media player market with the launch of its Gem line of digital media players. The players aim to offer features most consumers want at prices which won't strain their budgets: audio, video, and photo playback; expandable memory; USB mass storage; and rugged cases which can handle being tossed in a bag… Read More

RCA might be an electronics name from your parents' generation (or your parents' parents' generation) but the firm still wants to appeal to today's music fans

Thomson/RCA yesterday announced the first in a lineup of new digital camcorders aimed at market segments reportedly not normally

Seven RCA brand direct-view models in 27- and 32-inch screen sizes will comprise the SDTV line-up with availability starting this summer. The SDTV models incorporate a built-in over-the-air ATSC tuner/decoder that will receive and display any of the 18 different digital TV formats and deliver DVD viewing quality for digital terrestrial broadcasts. The new SDTV models feature 5-channel favorite program listings in most models, a 5-brand… Read More

Boasting a dramatic contemporary design that adapts easily to any room décor, the slim 61-inch widescreen viewing area of the RCA Scenium Profiles model is virtually all-screen with a cabinet only 6.85 inches thin and weighing only 135 pounds. The HD61THW263 features both an integrated ATSC tuner-decoder for over-the-air digital television and Digital Cable Ready circuitry for plug-and-play access to digital cable HDTV programming.… Read More

Quote from the review: “If you've been reading the computer news recently, you would have noticed that portable audio/video players seem to be all the rage now. A barrage of portable devices will be coming onto the scene this year just in time for the back to school season

From the press release: The new RCA LYRA portables includes a 20GB jukebox player with a 1.8-inch hard disc drive that hold thousands of songs in a package smaller than a deck of cards and two colorful flash-based personal digital mp3 players. The new mp3 products are all compatible with most secure music downloads from WMA-compliant services that support digital rights management including MusicMatch and Walmart.com. “With the… Read More

The Digital Cable Ready RCA Scenium Profiles HDTV models offer a series of video and audio enhancements that totally engulf and involve the viewer in the on-screen action, including the ability to simultaneously watch TV and surf the Internet or display favorite digital photos. Both models feature an integrated ATSC tuner/decoder and Digital Cable Ready circuitry designed to capture the stunning realism of HDTV broadcasts aired by… Read More

The uniquely designed, versatile LCD models produce vibrant pictures and also serve as high-resolution displays for a wide variety of components, including standard and progressive scan DVD players,HDTV over-the-air digital tuner/decoders, HD cable decoders, HD satellite receivers and gaming systems. The flat-screen monitors in 30-inch, 27-inch and 26-inch screen sizes, feature three discrete inputs – DVI-HDCP, Component Video YPrPb, and… Read More

Both the old and the new take the spotlight during a special QVC national telecast this Thursday night that will tell the RCA all-electronic color TV story with live images of both the CT-100 – still displaying pristine color images after all these years – and the fully integrated RCA HD50LPW42 HDTV Set. During the same era as the first color TV sale, RCA sold its first color television studio camera, an event that set the stage… Read More

The showpieces of the RCA lineup include more than a dozen new Digital Cable Ready HDTV sets that will offer delivery of HDTV programming from local cable operators as well as widescreen receptionand display of over-the-air broadcasts from local broadcasters who now offer digital TV service. The new integrated ATSC and Digital Cable Ready models will be offered beginning this summer in a broad choice of screen sizes ranging from widescreen 40… Read More

For 2003, RCA Scenium designs slim down with a new thin, lightweight widescreen 50-inch (diagonal) fully integrated rear-projection HDTV based on Texas Instruments' DLP