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When acquisition talk gets started, you never know whether it'll result in a sale, but there's talk of two major realignments in the consumer electronics industry. First of all, D&M Holdings may be on the block. And second, Blockbuster is thinking of buying Circuit City. Whew! Someone get me a handkerchief.

The <A HREF="http://www.eetimes.com">EETimes</A> recently reported that <A HREF="http://www.jvc.com/">JVC</A> and <A HREF="http://www.sony.com/">Sony</A> are cooperating to develop IEEE 1394 interface technologies for digital video recorders using Sony's i.Link and JVC's D-VHS format. The idea is to entice consumers to use D-VHS recorders in entertainment systems connected with 1394 cables.

Denmark’s DALI has added a second center-channel speaker to its Oberon series of home theater speakers and announced that it is now shipping the high-end IO-12 wireless headphones it previewed in October.

Last week, Dallas broadcaster WFFA turned on its new HDTV transmitter for the first time. Surprisingly, the transmission overwhelmed heart monitors at Baylor University Medical Center, which were operating at the same frequency. Nurses and doctors were temporarily unable to monitor their patients' heartbeats. When the cause of the problem was discovered, WFFA turned the transmitter off.

This could have been the perfect gift for the right person. In a cryptic email, McIntosh announced on Friday afternoon it would be offering “something very special” in its on line store at 2 p.m. on Sunday. That something special turned out to be the limited-edition poster “Dancing with the Dead.” Price: $195. It sold out almost immediately...

China-based Dangbei today introduced a portable 1080p projector with built-in Netflix streaming capability.

Treble Clef Audio (TCA), a new high-performance audio brand from Denmark, has produced a beautiful work of art, which also happens to be a speaker.