Pricey innovations in video and audio
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Various 'pricey' audio and video products were introduced at the 1992 International Winter Consumer Electronics Show, which was held in Las Vegas, NV. For example, Pioneer Electronics USA Inc (Long Beach, CA) showed its VDR-V1000 rewritable videodisc recorder, which costs $39,950. It employs magneto-optical technology, specifying a head access time of 0.3 second. Magneto-optical discs, which are available from Pioneer, cost $1,295. Faroudja Laboratories (Sunnyvale, CA) introduced its LD100 line doubler, which costs $14,950. The device accepts 525-line television-signal inputs and converts them to high-resolution signals. The result is a display that is the equivalent of high-definition television (HDTV). Other consumer electronics products mentioned and briefly described include: the SC-TH200 Home THX Audio System, $8,500, from Technics (Secaucus, NJ); the XV-S250U liquid crystal display (LCD) video projector, $6,495, from Sharp Electronics Corp (Mahwah, NJ); and the VL-MX7U 8-mm camcorder, $1,699, from Sharp Electronics.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1992
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Poised for technological leadership
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As currencies become stronger in East Asian countries and labor costs rise, the countries look for ways to cope with decreasing competitiveness in consumer electronics at a time when the economic outlook for the US and Europe diminishes. The countries also must contend with maturing worldwide markets for their consumer electronics products, including television sets, videocassette recorders and microwave ovens. Japan is decreasing domestic investments in plants and equipment but increasing such investments in North America and the European Community. South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan are increasing production of high-value-added products and shifting many manufacturing operations to China and Southeast Asia. These countries are also increasing research and development to reduce their dependence on Japanese technology. The consumer electronic plans of these countries and Singapore are discussed.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1991
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Good-bye to TV ghosts: a broadcast ghost-canceling reference signal will enable digital signal-processing circuits in TV sets to erase multipath distortions
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Circuit costs are dropping to a point where it is becoming feasible for ghost-canceling circuits to be installed on home television sets. The Advanced Television Systems Committee is working on a standard for a ghost-canceling reference signal and could select one by Aug 1992. Systems proposed by the David Sarnoff Research Center/Thomson Consumer Electronics and Philips Laboratories have produced the best results and are likely to be incorporated into the standard. Japan has had a ghost-canceling reference signal standard since 1989 and one Japanese television manufacturer is making televisions with ghost-canceling circuits. Ghost canceling will be even more important with high-definition television than with traditional television.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1992
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