Archive for the 'Home Audio' Category

Does Your HDTV need an Audio Upgrade?

By Laura Hubbard
With your favorite shows returning and football season underway, chances are you’ll be turning your attention to your television. CEA research shows the majority of U.S. households own at least one high-definition TV. But, less than one-third have a home theater system.
Most of today’s TV shows, sports events and movies are filmed [...]

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Sound Matters

By Laura Hubbard
I have been in Vegas for five days, running around the show floor from press conferences to sessions and it was a welcome change to start this morning in the High Performance Audio area of CES. After the incredible experience of seeing Diana Ross live in concert last night, it was amazing [...]

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Deejay Dreams

By Bhavna Bhatia
Ever had a deep desire to be a deejay? Well now you can! At CES Unveiled, Tonium launched the Pacemaker: a portable music player fully loaded with all the features you need to be a professional deejay. And the best part is, it fits in your pocket!

Using the Pacemaker is simple: [...]

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

My Election Day Technology

By Carolyn Slater
By no means am I a gadget freak, in fact I’m a (very) late adopter but I was struck by how many CE products I use in one day.Â
Consider Tuesday – a momentous day – Election Day 2008. I should preface this with the fact that although I’ve lived in the U.S. [...]

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

The Untapped Market of Boomer Consumers

By Sarah Szabo
Three years ago, I gave my dad an MP3 player for Christmas. As a bit of background, the man used a record player until 1999 as his primary source of music, so this gift was a bit of a gamble. What if he was too set in his ways? What if he [...]

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Y’all Rock!

By Kathy Gornik, President, Thiel Audio
Everyone at Thiel felt proud to be a part of the effort, and, in particular, was thrilled that CEA’s Glenda MacMullin visited Thiel part of the event. So, thank you so much, Glenda. We are truly honored.
Here’s a photo of some of our very proud staff with Glenda holding [...]

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Free Trade in the Bluegrass State

By Glenda MacMullin
The America Wins with Trade Bus Tour rolled into the Bluegrass state of Kentucky. While they haven’t had rain in over two months – they got rain today. We arrived at Thiel Audio – a U.S. producer of high performance loudspeakers – to a warm southern welcome from their employees. Kathy Gornik, [...]

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

America, Shure, and CEA Wins with Trade Tour, Chicago Style

   By Mark Karnes, Shure Inc.
It was a rainy day in Chicago ( thanks to the remnants  of Gustav), so instead of a festive outdoor event with media attendance and well prepared speeches, we had an old fashioned discussion on the issues of trade and how we could bring more attention to the benefits [...]

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

By Dave Wilson
The America Wins with Trade tour stopped in Portland, Oregon this morning at the manufacturing facility of Triad Speakers. President and CEO Larry Pexton and the terrific people at Triad gave us all a very warm welcome. We received a tour of the manufacturing facility where Triad manufactures its built-to-order loudspeakers, right [...]

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

High definition audio

By Laura Hubbard
A high-quality audio system adds an emotional element to whatever you watch and can impact a storyline in ways that visuals alone cannot. Imagine feeling like you’re by Jason Bourne’s side as bullets fly through the air and punches are thrown while he uncovers the secret to his identity in ‘The Bourne [...]

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008