Hit by TV price wars, Tweeter regroups
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Tweeter Home Entertainment Group Inc. 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.
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A compromise by TV networks and advertisers on a system to count how many people watch commercials has hit a snag.
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Of all the things folks love about consumer electronics, constantly falling prices probably ranks right up there with big-screen televisions and MP3 players.
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Will deals among the manufacturers of flat-panel displays lead to slower price declines of L.C.D. televisions? Donât count on it.
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An old-fashioned price war is gearing up in the digital music download business, with RealNetworks (Quote, Chart) on the offensive. With rival Apple in its crosshairs, RealNetworks has slashed the price on songs sold from its RealPlayer store by 50 ...
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With competition ever more fierce in the LCD TV market, some retailers are finding the most viable option is to join forces.
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I was in the audience yesterday when the one dramatic moment of the conference took place. Scoble was on stage. Mike Arrington was sitting to my right in the front row of the second section (on the right). Mike showed me a piece he was writing, and I gulped. It said Scoble was leaving Podtech and probably going to FastCompany to start a TV network for them. Since Scoble is my friend, I knew that there was some truth to this, but was disappointed to see it was coming out, esp at a moment when Scoble wouldn't have a moment to think and consult with friends before formulating a response. HIs laptop screen was being projected as we watched him edit his comment on TechCrunch. At one point Mike asked if I thought he knew we could see what he was typing. I didn't think he did. Anyway, Scoble lets it all hang out. And somehow he gets away with it. What would kill most people just stings him, and he smiles through it all, in his bumbling Scoble-like way, and it always amazes me how he makes lemonade out of the lemons. This isn't the optimal way to announce you're leaving a company, and his deal with FC isn't final yet. But somehow I think he'll navigate this transition and come out in a better place after the dust settles.
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Vonage tanked after its IPO. It's not entirely clear anymore why eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype. And the long-awaited rollout of advanced TV services based on Internet technologies has resembled the drip of a faucet.
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Samsung and Sharp are trying web TV, but a cheaper version that what people have done in the past.
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Tweeter is caught in the Wal-Mart pickle. Known for top-of-the-line electronics and custom installations, the Canton retailer has been squeezed ever since Wal-Mart began selling televisions en masse.
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New device plays back audio and video on the go, but it sports a hefty price tag.
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Plus: TiVo posts small profit...Novell reverses year-earlier profit...Lenovo posts 2006-07 net surge.
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The energy-hog televisions are losing ground to their cheaper counterparts. But developers hope that will change with improved technologies.
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It could be a single malfunctioning power supply. Or, from the other side of the glass, it could be a portent of doom for a technology that would make good use of all those TV channels that no one's broadcasting on, for wireless networking.
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CNET has a great set of brands. But its cost structure is out of whack.
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Rumors of an Apple-TiVo deal may be overdone.
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High-definition television can  show the sweat beading on an athlete's brow, but the cost of  all the necessary electronic equipment can get a shopper's own  pulse racing.