Consumer TVs typically did not have a no-signal noise muting and blanking feature until the late analog TV period.

During that same year, General Consumer Electronics introduced the Vectrex, a vector graphics based system which used a self-centering analog stick, a precursor to the modern design.

Intersil Corporation () is an American company that specializes in the design, development and manufacturing of high-performance analog semiconductors for four high-growth markets — Communications, Computing, High End Consumer and Industrial.

Consumer equipment, and in particular compact audio cassette recorders have the bias set at a compromise level ( usually a little higher ) to give good frequency response and acceptably low distortion.

Consumer straight talk – Norman's last eight video tapes.

In addition, because biomedical engineers often develop devices and technologies for " consumer " use, such as physical therapy devices ( which are also " medical " devices ), these may also be governed in some respects by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Consumer Safety Officers, more commonly called Investigators, are the individuals who inspect production and warehousing facilities, investigate complaints, illnesses, or outbreaks, and review documentation in the case of medical devices, drugs, biological products, and other items where it may be difficult to conduct a physical examination or take a physical sample of the product.

The Crown's immunity may also apply to other parties in certain circumstances: see Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Baxter Healthcare.

Consumer Reports has noted that some third-party cartridges may contain less ink than OEM cartridges, and thus yield no cost savings ,< REF name =" Auto5I-7 "/> while Wilhelm Imaging Research claims that with third-party inks the lifetime of prints may be considerably reduced.

Consumer products such as toys and cosmetics may contain phthalates or parabens, which disrupt androgen synthesis.

In the United Kingdom, when applied to individuals, these may come under the Consumer Credit Act 1974.

* Household Expenditure surveys do not cover the expenditures of foreign visitors, though these may be within the scope of a Consumer Price Index.

* National Accounts include imputed rents for owner-occupied dwellings which may not be within the scope of a Consumer Price Index.

For example it may be thought to help understanding and facilitate economic analysis if what is included under the heading of Consumption is the same in the Consumer Price Index and in the national income and expenditure accounts.

Consumer or Consumers may also refer to:

Consumer choice theory is a way of analyzing how consumers may achieve equilibrium between preferences and expenditures by maximizing utility as subject to consumer budget constraints.

A stakeholder may play both an active and an inactive role: for example, a Consumer is both a " mass-market purchaser " ( not interacting with the system ) and a User ( an actor, actively interacting with the purchased product ).

Consumer finance companies may also require far less contingent liabilities than banks.

In the United States the powerful US Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a report in 2002 stating that exposure to arsenic from direct human contact with CCA treated wood may be higher than was previously thought.

The common law in other nations may also place legal limits on the validity of disclaimers ; for instance, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has previously successfully sued Target Australia Pty Ltd for the usage of inaccessible disclaimers in advertisements ( the televised advertisements in question contained disclaimers that were only shown on screen for 1. 50 seconds ).

Soloflex's WBV Platform recently made news in July 2007 for a Consumer Reports review that demonstrated it had been using claims from research that may not apply to their machine.

Consumer organizations may operate via protests, campaigning or lobbying.

Consumer organizations may attempt to serve consumer interests by relatively direct actions such as creating and / or disseminating market information, and prohibiting specific acts or practices, or by promoting competitive forces in the markets which directly or indirectly affect consumers ( such as transport, electricity, communications, etc.

" Consumer Unit ( may also be known as a consumer control unit ).

Consumer ’ s experience in one category may affect their quality perception of other product or service falling under same umbrella brand.

Debt collectors who work on commission may be highly motivated to convince debtors to pay the debt ; These practices are highly regulated by The Fair Debt Collection Practices act, State laws to protect consumers, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ( CFPB ), the Federal Trade Commission, and State regulatory agencies.

reported that a settlement deal between the Morrisseys and the Department of Consumer and Business Services had been reached: " As part of this settlement, neither of the Morrisseys may offer or sell securities.

The school offers ninety – one elective courses and students may elect to major in one of six programs: Arts and Humanities ; Business, Marketing and Management ; Environmental and Agricultural Systems ; Family and Consumer Sciences ; Health Sciences ; and Industrial, Manufacturing, Engineering and Communication.

Consumer communities have suffered at the hands of the productive interests.

They have three ministers in Berlin: Hans-Peter Friedrich ( Federal Ministry of the Interior ), Peter Ramsauer ( Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs ) and Ilse Aigner ( Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ).

The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame inducted him in 2000, " in recognition of his contributions and pioneering spirit that have laid the foundation for consumer electronics.

Consumer organizations, environmentalist groups, and opponents to food irradiation refer to some studies suggesting that a large part of the public questions the safety of irradiated foods, and will not buy foods that have been irradiated.

Consumer Price inflation have also curtailed since 2008, when Nicaragua's inflation rate hovered at 19. 82 %.

There were plans to release the G7400 in the United States as the Odyssey³ and later as the Odyssey³ Command Center ; the system was demonstrated at the 1983 Consumer Electronics Show and some prototypes have been found.

Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the state Department of Consumer Affairs, said, " We have not seen any evidence of the kind of massive desecration that being alleged ... The kind of activity they're alleging not easily hidden, especially on a willful, large-scale basis.

As offerings have evolved to include multiple services and data operators have increasingly given consumers the opportunity to rent additional devices like access modems, internet gateways and video extenders that enable them to access multiple services, and distribute them to a range of Consumer Electronics devices around the home.

Consumer products like this have been using firmware since the 1970s.

The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act ( or CBDTPA ) was a United States bill proposed in 2002 that would have prohibited any kind of technology that could be used to read digital content without digital rights management ( DRM )— which prohibits copying and reading any content under copyright without permission of the copyright owner.

Throughout 2010 and 2011 a number of authorities around the world including the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Bank of Namibia and the Central Bank of Lesotho have declared TVI Express to be a pyramid scheme.

Over the years, many academic settings have adopted other names for the study of home economics, such as Human Sciences, Human Ecology, and Family and Consumer Sciences.

According to the auto editors of Consumer Guide it had " an unusually long option list for the era " so owners could have luxury and conveniences typically found in more expensive cars, and these options " came with a much higher profit margin " for the automaker.

Consumer prices have risen marginally over the past few years.

According to Consumer Reports, as many as 56 % of Americans don't have a will.

Price fixing is illegal in Australia under the Consumer and Competition Act 2010 which have considerably similar prohibitions to the US and Canadian prohibitions.

Consumer DIMM vendors have recently begun to distinguish between single and dual ranked DIMMs.

4173, the bill that became the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, Representative Maurice Hinchey ( D-NY ) proposed an amendment to the bill that would have reenacted Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32 and also prohibited bank insurance activities.

Since these accounts include the equivalent rental value of owner-occupied dwellings, the equivalent rental approach would have to be applied in the Consumer Price Index too.

Recent developments in U. S. trademark law have included the adoption of the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 ( see Trademark dilution ), the 1999 Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, and the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 ( see Trademark dilution ).

In the United States, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the American National Standards Institute have created a Standardized Document and Training System for certification of Playground Safety Inspectors.

Consumer products such as baby alarms have been available at least since 1940.