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Wal-Mart gets Vizio LCD HDTVs
Vizio was a plasma flat-panel TV manufacturer that some think was single-handedly responsible for lowering the prices of retail flat-panel televisions into the mainstream at the end of 2005 and into 2006. The price drops on flat-panel TVs also has ...
TVs go slim, and cheap, at Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy
Although TVs are moving from the old tube-style to the new slim-style -- as in LCD and Plasma TVs -- the prices are finally starting to reach a point that the newer (if they can be called that now) and slimmer TVs are very affordable to most of us. ...
Don't dump those television stocks just yet
Worried about the futures of companies with huge television and cable businesses, like News Corporation (NYSE:NWS), Viacom, Inc. (NYSE:VIA), Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) and General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), as American consumers supposedly watch ...
Best Buy and Circuit City squeezing smaller retailers
Are smaller electronics retailers like The Good Guys, Tweeter and Ultimate Electronics being squeezed by the likes of the two largest consumer electronics chains in the country? Both Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) and Circuit City Stores, Inc. ...
Sony shuts down production on rear-projection TVs in ending an era
Sony Electronics (NYSE: SNE) said today that it would be discontinuing the manufacture of rear-projection television sets after decades of making them for global markets. In the end of a television era, Sony will concentrate its efforts on flat-panel ...
Flat-panel TVs becoming too complex
Televisions are not what they used to be. If you've been in a Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) or Circuit City (NYSE: CC) recently, you've probably been bedazzled by terms like 720p, 1080p, HDMI, HDTV, plasma, LCD, component input and others. TVs have gotten so ...
Fujitsu announces exit from plasma display market
Indicating reduced profitability in the video display market, Fujitsu (OTC: FJTSY) has announced its departure from the production of high end plasma televisions. This news comes via ars technica and is indicative of a major trending pattern. Much is ...
Circuit City facing margin pressure, just like Best Buy
Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE:BBY) and Circuit City Stores Inc. (NYSE:CC) -- although different animals really -- seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly sometimes. In this case, Best Buy's latest quarterly results were shy of expectations -- ...
The top retail dogs in digital HDTVs
With flat-screen TVs (LCD and Plasma, mainly) being THE hot category in retail electronics these days, the bevy of brands, selections and formats has never been quite as...confusing. The sheer number of brands alone is staggering. But then this is ...
Netflix announces Best Buy as latest instant movie streaming partner
One thing you can say about Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), the DVD rental pioneer doesn't stand still. It has been innovating for years in bringing video content to consumers over as many mediums as it can. DVDs and Blu-ray discs are still the staple ...
Bill Gates says TV is dead within five years
We've heard this all before -- the 'death of the TV' is coming, mostly due to the internet. While the physical television set is not going anywhere for a long, long time, the distribution of content and the way we use that television screen -- err, ...
HDTV transition set to cause confusion and opportunities
My guess is that the majority of television-watching American have no idea that in about two years, those analog television signals beaming TV programming to all those television sets will go away permanently in favor of the newer all-digital ...
Circuit City shares downgraded to "underweight"
Shares of the second-largest U.S. consumer electronics retailer were downgraded by Analyst Mark J. Rowen of Prudential Financial. Circuit City (NYSE:CC) was changed from "neutral weight" to "underweight." The target price set by Rowen was $22 per ...
Tweeter regroups as it struggles to compete with Best Buy, Circuit City
Tweeter Home Entertainment Group Inc. (NASDAQ:TWTR) is trying to ease out of the line of fire in a flat-panel television price war that erupted over the holidays and is extending through Super Bowl Sunday. Recently, Tweeter has seen its share price ...
No more iPods for North Korea's government
Just when you've thought you had seen it all, the Bush administration want to block higher-end consumer electronics -- including the, gasp, iPod -- from going ashore to North Korea. In a strange type of semi-sanction on all-things-gadgetry, the U.S. ...
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