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The specialty retailer taps the IPO market to keep its growth revving.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Mar. 8--In an ideal world, every time a new TV set or computer monitor was purchased, an old, junky one would be recycled -- rather than being dumped from Skyline Parkway or tossed into a rural ditch or even forgotten in a basement.
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The HDTV technology company is moving a key part of its future in house.
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New lens technology creates a versatile sub-$5000 projector good for home theater or business.
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Looking to boost the use of home electronics, company  provides funding to three companies.
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A new $200 baby monitor is designed to resist radio interference, offering clear sound over a distance of up to 900 feet.
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You have a fancy home-entertainment system that can record and play TV programs, DVDs, show digital photos, and tap into your collection of digital music.
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Graphics and media processor company Nvidia has launched the Purevideo technology, bringing home-theater quality to PCs and notebooks.
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Device is designed for home users, but its price tag is steep.
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By Keith Reed, The Boston Globe  Sep. 3--BURLINGTON -- When Tweeter Home Entertainment Group spent 10  weeks and $600,000 remodeling its store here, it aimed to create less  electronics showroom and more boutique hotel or posh model home.
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(InfoWorld) - The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is now backing a technology that may send high-definition video around the average home in a few years. The standards body, whose standards are widely followed around the world, has approved the specification called HomePNA 3.1 (for Home Phoneline Networking Association) for high-speed communications over both phone wiring and coaxial cable in homes. HomePNA 3.1 is one of a handful of emerging approaches to the problem of distributing high-quality multimedia streams from a broadband gateway or a device inside the home. For example, it lets users plug a PC into any phone jack and a TV into a standard coaxial cable and have them all connected at speeds as high as 320Mbps, according to HomePNA. Home electrical wiring and a variety of wireless LAN-based approaches are also in the running. Demand for high-speed connectivity around homes will grow as service providers roll out "triple-play" services that include voice, data, and video, both live and on demand, said Parks Associates analyst Kurt Scherf. The ideal technology to provide it may vary from one country to another, and a key to wide deployment will be adoption by large service providers in the gear they offer consumers, he said. HomePNA 3.1 has an advantage in North America and parts of Europe, where cable TV is popular and many homes have the coaxial cable used for it, he said. AT&T is deploying HomePNA 3.1 gear to customers of its Project Lightspeed triple-play service, a European carrier is using it, and there are trials in North America, Europe, and Asia, according to HomePNA President Rich Nesin. Adoption by a large standards body such as the ITU lets many vendors introduce interoperable products, which can lead to high-volume manufacturing and competition, both of which tend to bring prices down. Earlier versions of HomePNA have been adopted by the ITU, and some have had a degree of success -- although wireless dominates home networking, according to Scherf. Version 3.1 is the first HomePNA standard that works with both phone wiring and cable, and it introduced higher performance to the specification. It was completed in November and compliant products were already on the market earlier last year, Nesin said. He said service providers have rejected wireless LAN and powerline technologies because of high error rates. But carriers in some markets around the world have embraced both of those alternatives, according to Scherf. ITU certification can aid a new technology by overcoming regulatory hurdles in some countries, Scherf said. In addition, it clears up questions about licensing intellectual property used in the standard. In any case, it's likely that many homes will use a hybrid of something like HomePNA and wireless LAN, both for flexibility and because not every home has a phone jack in every room where broadband is needed, Scherf said.
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Digital photo frames expand beyond standalone frames into home appliances.
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Hard drive-based audio player will get a new look and a lower price.
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Kilpsch's $100 ProMedia Ultra 2.0 speakers put desktop-quality sound in a package you can lug around.
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Prototype ups high-resolution display ante with whopping 4096-by-2160 resolution.
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Neosonik has come up with a way to beam HDTV pictures and surround-sound audio to a set 120 feet away.
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Receiver will allow your TV to display HD content that's stored on your PC.