- DVDINSIDER: CyberHome Selects Cirrus Chips to Power
Portable DVD Players.
DVD NEWS-(C)1999-2003 DVD NEWS. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc via M2 Communications Ltd (www.m2.com). Cirrus Logic announced that its CS98100 DVD processor and CS4340 digital-to-analog converter (DAC) chips are powering CyberHome's new line of portable DVD players, the CH-LDV 712 and CH-LDV 702. Portable DVD players are a fast-growing segment ......
- Petters Readies Polaroid Combo DVD Player/CD-RW
MINNEAPOLIS— The Petters Group has entered the competitive DVD-player market with products it will market under the popular Polaroid brand. Petters will use the trademark on a range of consumer electronics products including DVD players it acquires from China for sale in the United States and Europe. The company showed ......
- CD Format Keeps Spinning, CEA Finds
Arlington, Va.— The number of homes with component CD players, headphone CD players and CD boomboxes grew in 2002 along with the household penetration rates of MP3 portables, home CD recorders and A/V receivers, according to a CEA survey of consumers. Penetration rates could rise again in 2003, based on ......
- Toshiba Networks DVD Recorder
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Beyond launching the first HD-DVD player later this year, Toshiba's A/V group used its annual dealer show to unveil the company's first network-equipped DVD recorder. The Gigastyle RD-XS54, which will ship in August at a street price of $699, is a DVD recorder/DVR combo incorporating a 250GB ......
- China Looking to TVs, DVD Players
The hot tech markets in China are portable audio and video players, along with high-definition DVD players and TVs, according to ABI Research, which calls the move away from notebooks a "cultural revolution." While high-end TVs are gradually replacing CRT TVs in China and will do so at an increasing ......
- Coby Introduces Portable DVDs, MP3 Player
LAS VEGAS — Coby Electronics is introducing an MP3 player and two types of portable DVD players during International CES this week. The MP-C741 MP3 player has 256MB built-in flash memory and FM radio, with up to 512MB memory when using an optional SD/MMC card, Coby said. The player's LCD ......
- Price War Moves Into DVD Portables Territory
LAS VEGAS— While consumers marvel at the convenience of portable DVD players, retailers and manufacturers are floored at the category's precipitous price declines. In late 2002 Wal-Mart, the 800-pound retail gorilla, offered a $197 Initial-branded portable DVD player with a 4-inch LCD screen, and a $296 step-up with a 5.8-inch ......