Michelle Abraham

In the highly competitive consumer electronics industry, and particularly the rising digital television market, it is critical for a company read more

In the highly competitive consumer electronics industry, and particularly the rising digital television market, it is critical for a company to get product to market quickly. At the same time, companies must uniquely differentiate consumer electronic products in the highly competitive marketplace. Streamlining the development process and reducing the cost of bringing high quality products to market is essential to the future success of leading CE manufacturers.

There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or read more

There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or being able to chat with friends as the television program is going on.

The success of competing formats depends on the availability of content. If the content from Hollywood studios is only available read more

The success of competing formats depends on the availability of content. If the content from Hollywood studios is only available in one of the blue laser formats, then I don't see the other technologies being successful.

Video CD players weren't necessarily supported by the Hollywood studios, but Indian and Chinese movie studios made content available and read more

Video CD players weren't necessarily supported by the Hollywood studios, but Indian and Chinese movie studios made content available and people were willing to buy them. I think you could see, to that extent, more than one standard.

We are seeing a more pronounced dichotomy between full-featured boxes that are used by pay-TV providers to offer other services read more

We are seeing a more pronounced dichotomy between full-featured boxes that are used by pay-TV providers to offer other services in addition to satellite TV reception and basic boxes for TV reception only. Advanced features include hard drives for DVR services, multiple tuners, more connectivity options, and high-definition decoding for receiving HD signals.