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Consumer Spending Rising?
SV Staff  |  Aug 27, 2008
While evidence of slow economic times still abound (Anyone want to buy my house? Bueller?) it seems that consumer spending in technology is rising. A report looked at the results of two surveys conducted byt the Consumer Electronics Associate and...
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Consumer Wish List Revealed
Jon Iverson  |  Nov 18, 2001

We ran a <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/showvote.cgi?219">poll</A> on the Website a couple of weeks back, asking <I>Guide</I> readers what tops their holiday wish-lists for home theater equipment. Predictably, HDTV was a top contender, with DVD players and other components making the cut.

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Consumers Buying More But Smaller TVs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 02, 2009
In the wake of the DTV transition, people are buying more TVs. They're also buying smaller ones, according to a survey by Retrovo Pulse.
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Consumers Hate Content Search
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 07, 2016
Pay-TV subscribers love watching programs but hate searching for them, according to Evolution Digital.
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Consumers High on HD, Not on 3D
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 03, 2010
The popularity of HDTV is far outpacing that of 3D, according to a survey by the Opinion Research Corporation.
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Consumers High on Passive 3D, Says LG
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 30, 2011
A study sponsored by LG Electronics has found that an overwhelming percentage of consumers prefer passive 3D technology over the active kind.

Miraculously, passive 3D happens to be the very kind LG is selling, versus the kind with active-shutter glasses being marketed by the likes of Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony. What are the chances of that happening?

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Consumers Spent More Than Ever on Home Video in 2000
Jon Iverson  |  Feb 04, 2001

According to the numbers revealed by the <A HREF="http://vsda.org/">Video Software Dealers Association</A> (VSDA) last week, American consumers spent more than ever on home video in 2000, with rentals and sales of VHS and DVD hitting the $20 billion mark for the first time in home video's twenty-plus&ndash;year history. On the rental side of the video business, the VSDA reports that the total combined revenues of both DVD and VHS video formats rose 2.2% in 2000 over 1999. The "remarkably popular" new DVD video format made a major impact on this mark, says the not-for-profit trade group.

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Consumers Still Spending on TVs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 21, 2008
"The consumer spending boom may already have come to an end," says Business Week. But consumers are still spending on TVs, according to data the magazine obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Consumers to Cable: You Stink
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 04, 2007
Consumers aren't happy with their TV providers. Cable and satellite television companies have scored the lowest of any sector of industry in the latest American Consumer Satisfaction Index.
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Consumers to TV Providers: Careful with My Data
SV Staff  |  Aug 08, 2018
The chart, excerpted from the just-released “TV Services: Pay TV in a Data-Driven World” report, shows consumer perceptions of data collection and use among U.S broadband households. Courtesy of Parks Associates.

One in five internet households report being “highly sensitive” to how TV content providers collect and use data about family members and their activities, according to the latest research from Parks Associates.

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Consumers Won't Trash Analog TVs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 07, 2008
Will all those lead-filled analog TVs end up on the trash heap, where they'll pollute ground water? Not so, says the Consumer Electronics Association. A new study shows most of the obsolete sets will find loving new homes.
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Continental Seating Takes Off
HT Staff  |  Jun 11, 2002
Leather Center's popular Home Theater line of seating has been spun off as a separate company.
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Control Yourself on the Cheap
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Oct 09, 2006
Remote Technologies, Inc, a residential and commercial control products manufacturer more known to custom installers than the average retail consumer, is introducing three new keypads that will help the company's name appear in a broader range of homes with multi-room entertainment systems. RTI says the keypads are completely customizable, programmable, and upgradeable.
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Control4 to Host Smart Home Demos Around the U.S.
SV Staff  |  Oct 15, 2018
If you’ve ever wondered what “smart home” means in the real world, home automation specialist Control4 wants to show you.
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Control4 Unveils Triad Landscape Speakers
SV Staff  |  May 10, 2017
Home automation company Control4 today introduced a line of all-weather landscape speakers, the first such product to be announced since it acquired Triad earlier this year.
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