CEA Promoting Audio with Free Gear for Students
You want to grow your market, you've got to plant some seeds. The Consumer">http://www.ce.org/">Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is doing just that with the BuzzNet">http://www.buzznet.org/">BuzzNet 2000 tour, a traveling educational event that will hit college campuses beginning this month, as reported last">http://www.stereophile.com/news/10859/">last week.
CEA Reports a Sluggish Month For Audio Components
It would be easy to blame the popularity of home computers for a recent slowdown in audio component sales, except for the fact that PCs are having a tough season themselves. Maybe all of those audio dollars are being spent to cover losses in the stock market or to buy new PlayStation 2s. Regardless, sales of audio products suffered a bit of a slump this past October compared to last year.
CEA Sees Slow Year for Home Audio
The Consumer">http://www.ce.org">Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) believes 2002 will be a slow year for home-audio sales, but not an unsuccessful one for either manufacturers or retailers.
CEA Study: Shrinking Difference in Technology Use by Men, Women
When it comes to purchasing and using electronics products, the gap between men and women appears to be disappearing. That's one conclusion reached by a study conducted in early October by eBrain Market Research and published by the Consumer">http://www.ce.org/">Consumer Electronics Association. The study, titled Women, Men & Consumer Electronics, questioned 1000 random households about their involvement with electronics technology.
CEA Supports Music Online Act
The Music Online Competition Act (MOCA) has won the imprimatur of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), according to an announcement made August 8. The recently-introduced bipartisan">http://www.stereophile.com/news/11107/">bipartisan bill crafted by Congressmen Chris Cannon (R-Utah) and Rick Boucher (D-Virginia) intends to insure competition in the delivery of online music—and to preserve music lovers' rights to copy their own recordings for private use.
CEA Survey: Consumers Want Free Content Online
The Consumer">http://www.ce.org/">Consumer Electronics Association has at last quantified common knowledge: An overwhelming majority of Internet users download news stories, product information, pictures, graphics, audio files, and video clips—all for free. Furthermore, Internet users want and expect to continue getting all this content at no cost, and they are opposed to any kind of governmental regulation or interference that will prevent their doing so.
CEA Weighs In On MGM v. Grokster
As the Senate Commerce Committee began hearings on issues related to MGM v. Grokster on July 28, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) president Gary Shapiro issued a masterfully constructed statement reminding the Committee of the stakes involved. Why masterful? Essentially, we are struck by the concision of the CEA argument and its gentle reminder that a significant American industry will be crucially affected by the final resolution of this issue—and not the one that first springs to mind, either.
CEA: "Bright Spots" in Audio Sales
First, the bad news: Sales of stand-alone, two-channel audio products declined in the month of June by 1.8% to $164 million, according to recently published statistics from the Consumer">http://www.ce.org">Consumer Electronics Association.
CEA: "Supporting Fair Use Means Better Business"
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has issued a position">http://www.ce.org/shared_files/edm/2007/PolicyPapers/HomeRecording.pdf"… paper on consumer recording rights, which it expects to be a "key issue in 2007." The CEA's position, in brief: "We urge Congress to refrain from limiting fair use and encourage market-based solutions to home recording and digital rights management issues."
CEA: Flat Year Ahead
Manufacturers and retailers don't expect an upswing in electronics sales next year. That's the consensus of members polled by the Consumer">http://www.ce.org">Consumer Electronics Association, published in mid-October.