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The three titans of video gaming -- Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony -- increasingly are looking to offer consoles that not only play games, but also function as entertainment hubs.
OPTUS says it will revamp its entire east coast high-speed broadband network for one tenth of the price it cost Telstra to do just one city.
Blu-ray players could supplant gaming consoles as the leader in over-the-top home Web services, according to Diffusion Group. The number of homes with broadband-capable televisions is expected to increase to 360 million by 2014 -- up from 128 million today.
Big growth in consumer electronics is expected this year thanks to increasing demand for LCD TVs, set-top boxes and appliances.
Even as carriers struggle to meet the demands on their networks, they are encouraging the use of more sophisticated devices that hog bandwidth.
By 2013, industry watchers expect, three out of four U.S. households will be watching television on HD sets.
Massachusetts, New York, Washington and Wisconsin are following California's lead by proposing laws that would put a limit on energy used by CE devices, including TVs. None of the proposals has been approved by any of the state legislatures.
Samsung Electronics announced Wednesday it had started mass production of screens for 3D LED TVs and 3D LCD TVs.
As anamorphic home-cinema systems take root, installers and users are still challenged by some technology obstacles, and one good workaround is the use of a two-projector approach as it doesn't create video processing or lens distortion.
Solar-energy technology will soon debut in a wide array of consumer-electronics devices, such as mobile phones and e-readers.
Google is following Apple's iPad announcement with early mock-ups of its own tablet device, which reportedly would run Chrome and emphasize a Web-based interface.