All items tagged with consumer electronics (206)

Global Headphones Market on Track for 27% Value Growth

May 4, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Global Headphones Market on Track for 27% Value Growth

The Consumer Electronics team at Futuresource Consulting shared the latest key trends from the company's Worldwide Headphone Market Report. Despite the impact of COVID-19, the worldwide headphones aftermarket will enjoy another year of strong growth in 2020. According to new figures released by Futuresource, the category is on track to end the year with a 10% year-on-year increase in volume and 27% in value.

Consumer Electronics Retailers Ahead of the Online Curve Before COVID-19

April 28, 2020 by Futuresource Consulting

Consumer Electronics Retailers Ahead of the Online Curve Before COVID-19

The global spread of COVID-19 presents new challenges to consumer electronics (CE) vendors and retailers alike. However, in an industry already disrupted by changing consumer habits and a polarization of online and high street, CE retail appears to be faring well when compared with other retail segments. A new research report from Futuresource Consulting explores the retail journey of consumers when they buy headphones, TVs and wireless speakers, and points to a significant shift to online that began prior to the COVID-19 outbreak.

WiSA Announces Certification of Platin’s White Label 5.1 Wireless Home Theater Speaker System

April 17, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

WiSA Announces Certification of Platin’s White Label 5.1 Wireless Home Theater Speaker System

The Wireless Speaker and Audio Association (WiSA) founded by Summit Wireless Technologies and comprised of leading consumer electronics brands, announced the certification of the Milan 5.1 Wireless Home Theater speaker system from Platin, a division of Hansong Technology. The Milan 5.1 Wireless Home Theater solution is a “white-label” product, available immediately for licensing and rebranding by consumer electronics and audio companies worldwide and allows brands to provide an immersive 5.1 audio experience within soundbar price points.

Sennheiser Steps Up with New HD 450BT and HD 350BT Wireless Headphones

January 29, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser Steps Up with New HD 450BT and HD 350BT Wireless Headphones

Designed to offer great sound every day, the new Sennheiser HD 450BT and HD 350BT around-the-ear Bluetooth 5.0 headphones, first presented during CES 2020, offer a winning combination of improved audio quality, 30-hour battery life and instant voice assistant access. The HD 450BT also features active noise cancellation so no matter how loud the environment, it’s possible to enjoy a truly captivating audio experience without any distractions.

Never Stop Disrupting. Good Enough Is Never Enough!

January 17, 2020 by Joao Martins

Never Stop Disrupting. Good Enough Is Never Enough!

Post-CES 2020 Impressions. "CES is over but we’re just getting started!" That’s the optimistic vision propagated by many companies who just attended the gigantic Las Vegas event and they leave without really knowing if it was a success or not. Because this is no longer the old days when audio companies would leave CES with their order books filled. Currently, all you have are “contacts” and “great meetings” and little else to backup the promises of future business. And that’s the most important game after all at a show like CES. That and the media hallo effect that new product presentations might have caused.

December 19, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Xperi to Merge with TiVo to Create a Leading Brand in Consumer & Entertainment Technology and IP Licensing

Xperi Corporation - the owner of DTS and HD Radio - and TiVo Corporation announced they entered into a definitive agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction, representing approximately $3 billion of combined enterprise value. The transaction creates a much larger consumer and entertainment technology business and one of the industry’s largest intellectual property (IP) licensing platforms with a diverse portfolio of entertainment and semiconductor intellectual property.

Audio Collaborative 2019: Way Beyond the Trends

November 21, 2019 by Joao Martins

Audio Collaborative 2019: Way Beyond the Trends

Promoted every year by the market research firm Futuresource Consulting, Audio Collaborative 2019 full-day conference on November 7 was invaluable, with Futuresource's leading market analysts and researchers sharing some of the latest stats and trends on the topics in the agenda, combined with great panels and in-between keynotes. This is the first of my reports, originally published in The Audio Voice newsletter.

Acconeer and Imagimob Combine Radar Technology and Edge AI for Gesture Control Applications

November 12, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Acconeer and Imagimob Combine Radar Technology and Edge AI for Gesture Control Applications

By combining Edge AI software from Imagimob, a company specializing in artificial intelligence development, with Pulsed Coherent Radar technology from Acconeer, the radar sensor specialists, the two Swedish companies have created an innovative platform for gesture control that is perfect for consumer electronics products. Scheduled to be demonstrated at CES 2020 (January 7-10) in Las Vegas, the solution will be implemented for application with wireless headphones, trained to recognize five hand gestures with high accuracy and close to zero latency.

China: 90% of Users Love Their Smart Speakers - 88% in the UK

October 21, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

China: 90% of Users Love Their Smart Speakers - 88% in the UK

The exploding popularity of smart speakers in China is confirmed by findings from the latest Strategy Analytics consumer survey. The report, 2019 Smart Speaker User Survey – China Results, found that 63% of people who do not currently use a smart speaker plan to buy one within the next year. Another 22% say they will purchase a smart speaker later on, suggesting that smart speakers overall should reach at least another 85% of the population.

Technology and Innovation Returns To Las Vegas for CES Show 2020

October 18, 2019 by Nora Wong

Technology and Innovation Returns To Las Vegas for CES Show 2020

Promoted every year by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), CES is certainly the largest and most influential consumer technology show in the world, increasingly the place where trends are revealed for the rest of the year, and where both the largest brands and the most promising start-ups get a vital boost to their marketing. Increasingly, the CES Show is also a vibrant market for technology vendors and suppliers and this year, from January 7-10, the #CES2020 promises to be a defining moment for the audio industry.

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