Filed under: TECHNOLOGY | Tags: Bed Bath & Beyond, CableLabs, Consumer electronics, Liquid crystal display, NPD Group, Single-lens reflex camera, SLR, Television
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Improved margins and lower marketing costs helped TiVo post a quarterly profit, which has happened just two other times in the company’s 11-year history, and it is the first time the company has posted a profit in back-to-back reporting periods. The company said Wednesday that revenue grew 4%, although its subscriber totals dropped because of increased competition from built-in DVRs placed in cable and satellite set-tops. The New York Times/Associated Press (8/27)
Hollywood studios have given wirelessHD technology a big thumbs-up, basically allowing content to be sent via wirelessHD signals without concerns about piracy. The digital-rights-management technology came out of a partnership between the studios and the cable TV industry’s CableLabs, a R&D think tank. PC Magazine (8/27)
Nikon’s new single-lens reflex camera, the D90, will, according to the company, represent a first for the industry: It will be able to shoot video. The camera is expected to hit store shelves in September and retail for about $1,300. “This is a game-changing product,” said Chris Chute, an analyst at researcher IDC. “The one thing that’s really been missing from the SLR market has been the ability to record high-quality video.” USA TODAY (8/26)
The shaky economy and the lack of a new breakthrough product will limit growth in sales of consumer-electronics products to 1% to 3% this holiday season and in 2009, according to The NPD Group. Key products are reaching maturation levels, said analyst Steve Baker in a speech at Fall RetailVision 2008, where the CEA issued a survey indicating CE sales were shifting to more non-traditional outlets. The survey revealed that 25% of respondents would be up for making a CE purchase at Starbucks, 20% at Ikea, 40% at Bed Bath & Beyond and nearly 60% at Home Depot. TWICE (8/27)
HAI will showcase a pair of new portable touch-screen devices next week, the OmniTouch 8P and OmniTouch 10P home-automation controls, with the model numbers denoting their screen size, the company announced. They both carry TFT Active Matrix LCD screens with Wi-Fi, among other features, and are expected to ship in late 2008. CEPro.com (8/27)
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