* Consumer equipment: barcode scanner, printer, CD / DVD / Blu-ray devices, remote control devices

Consumer electronics ( abbreviated CE ) are electronic equipment intended for everyday use, most often in entertainment, communications and office productivity.

Consumer and commercial equipment differ in a number of ways ; commercial gear is generally ruggedized, with metal cases, and often has only a few specific frequencies programmed into it ( often, though not always, with a computer or other outside programming device ; older units can simply swap crystals ), since a given business or public safety agent must often abide by a specific frequency allocation.

*- Digital TV Consumer test reports-UK Government-funded website to help consumers choose the equipment needed to switch to digital television

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Pacific Telesis later licensed the Pacific Bell name to Thomson Consumer Electronics, who also produced telephone equipment for GE.

* Digital TV Consumer test reports-UK Government-funded website to help consumers choose the equipment needed to switch to digital television.

Consumer audio equipment often features VU meters, either because they are useful ( basically in sound recording equipment ), or just for their looks.

Exergaming came to the mass media attention at the Consumer Electronics Show when Bill Gates showcased the Exertris Interactive Gaming Bike in 2003, and the following year the same show hosted a pavilion dedicated to video game technology that also worked as sports and exercise equipment.

American Bell Consumer Products was created on January 1, 1983 as a unit of American Bell, Inc., upon declaration by the Modification of Final Judgment that American Telephone & Telegraph ( AT & T ) had to sell equipment to the public through an entirely separate subsidiary.

American Bell Consumer Products sold terminal equipment traditionally available through the Bell System, such as the Trimline telephone.

AT & T Consumer Products ceased operations of AT & T Phone Centers in 1995, deciding to simply focus on leasing equipment and on sales at department stores.

In 2000, Lucent opted to reorganize its equipment units, spinning off its Networks Systems unit as Avaya, and selling off its Consumer Products unit.

Kaplan is an enthusiast of high-end audio and video equipment, and has reported from the Consumer Electronics Show on new technologies in this area, as well as penning shopping-advice columns on what sorts of new TVs offer the best value.

Consumer advocacy groups such as Public Citizen or Food and Water Watch maintain that the safety of irradiated food is not proven, in particular long-term studies are still lacking, and strongly oppose the use of the technology.

* Consumer / lifestyle public relations – gaining publicity for a particular product or service, rather than using advertising

* Consumer fanaticism-the level of involvement or interest one has in the liking of a particular person, group, trend, artwork or idea.

In the European Union, after safety testing on one particular brand of noni juice ( Tahitian Noni ), approval was granted in 2002 as a novel food by the European Commission for Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General.

Prior to the Consumer Credit Act, legislation covering consumer credit was slapdash and focused on particular areas rather than consumer credit as a whole, such as moneylenders and hire-purchase agreements.

* Philips Consumer Products, Guildford provides sales and marketing for televisions, including High Definition televisions, DVD recorders, hi-fi and portable audio, CD recorders, PC peripherals, cordless telephones, home and kitchen appliances, personal care ( shavers, hair dryers, body beauty and oral hygiene ).

An audio adaptation of " The Lonely ", featuring Mike Starr as Corry, was produced for radio in the mid-2000s ; it was released on CD by CBS Consumer Products in 2007 as part of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas Vol.

* 2004 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award " for major contributions to digital audio source coding "

* Consumer audio and high fidelity audio receivers and AV receivers used by home stereo listeners and audio and home theatre system enthusiasts as well as audiophiles.

Consumer electronic devices concerned with audio ( for example Sound cards ) often have a connector labeled " line in " and / or " line out.

At the January 2001 Consumer Electronics Show they announced and demonstrated the first integrated audio device connecting to " over a thousand internet radio stations ".

* TEAC Consumer Electronics-Mass market audio products

Consumer analog cassette tapes may have a dynamic range of 60 to 70 dB.

Consumer wire recorders were marketed for home entertainment or as an inexpensive substitute for commercial office dictation recorders, but the development of consumer magnetic tape recorders starting in 1948 quickly drove wire recorders from the market.

Consumer digital video recorders ReplayTV and TiVo were launched at the 1999 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, USA.

** Consumer: From camcorders to digital video recorder ( DVR ) and set top box models like TiVo to personal computer based recorders.

* DDRs are slowly replacing Consumer: Magnetic tape based DV, Digital8, 8mm Video Format, VHS and MicroMV video tape recorders.

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.