These numbers, revised upward from the CEA's pronouncements four months ago, were issued as part of CEA Market Research's semi-annual US Consumer Electronics Sales & Forecasts report. The forecast also reflects optimism that the industry will finally top the important $100 billion milestone that it was aiming for in 2003.
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Our few days in Istanbul stretched into a dreamscape with its own strange normality. We ate and drank and walked and talked about anything and everything—music and audio, of course, as well as politics, art, literature. In contrast to often one-track American engineers, Leonid Korostyshevski showed an amazing depth of knowledge about painting and sculpture and non-Russian authors—and revealed a previously unexpressed interest in creating new forms of dance that would reflect the effects of technology the way other art forms have.
"Dance is a dead art…
While it is not intended to completely prevent copying,…
Xingtone, a small company with offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Amsterdam, is betting on low-fi in a big way with technology that will allow people to send and receive MP3s over cell phones. The recently launched company already has 3000 users.
Reuters reporter Sue Zeidler notes that Xingtone's software can convert compressed music files…
On Wednesday, November 4, a trade association representing approximately 2000 small European record labels announced that it would appeal the merger approval granted in July by European Union (EU) commissioners. Impala, as the association is known, contends that the merger concentrates too much power and market control in too few hands.
Impala will make its case before the EU's high court. Should its petition succeed, EU regulators would have to reverse an unconditional approval and order the…
We have our own reservations about download services—as audiophiles, we are, of course, concerned about the lossy compression schemes that dominate the mainstream providers. Yet, we reckon that most consumers know they are sacrificing bandwidth…
Kalman Rubinson loved the MSB Link DAC, which he reviewed back in January 1999. He now turns his ears to the Link's most recent incarnation, the MSB Link DAC III D/A converter. Kal lists the Link III's attractions: "user-installable enhancements,…
The study, "Internet 8: Advertising vs Subscription—Which Streaming Model Will Win?" also reveals that 40% of "audio streamies" (the report's term for those who have listened to Internet audio) would be willing to pay a small fee for commercial-free content, high-quality audio, or content they can't find anywhere else.
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One such company, Musicmaker, has just announced the addition of several "New York Punk" bands to their stable of recording acts. Blondie, Chrissie Hynde, and The New York Dolls have been added to…
Over 18 months in development, the new store at 672 North Wells Street in downtown Chicago will offer luxury home-theater systems, custom-installed whole-house electronics, and Red Rose audio products in a lavish environment described by manager Joe Cavanagh as "part art gallery, part upscale home." Among the store's unusual features are a series of paintings commissioned from artist Barry Gross and an Astonia baby grand piano, upon which what Cavanagh called "real live humans"…