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.

(" Sector " often refers to a higher level or broader category, such as Consumer Discretionary, whereas " industry " often refers to a lower level classification, such as Consumer Appliances.

Telemarketing in the United States of America is restricted at the federal level by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ( TCPA ) () and the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule ( TSR ).

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

A 2009 survey, as well as surveys in other years by Consumer New Zealand, found that there was a high level of non-compliance with the code.

* June 28, 2011-Tylenol Extra Strength Caplets 225 count distributed in the U. S. by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc., recalled at the retail level one product lot ( 60, 912 bottles ) of Tylenol, Extra Strength Caplets, 225 count bottles, distributed in the U. S. The recalled product was manufactured in February, 2009.

Since 1 January 2011, a new Consumer law has been enacted in Australia at the National level, and due to a Council of Governments Agreement ( COAG ) this legislation is now part of each jurisdiction's Fair Trading Laws ( States and Territories of Australia ).

Consumer groups argue that the bill would lead to lower-quality service and increased rates, though Verizon promised in a letter sent to the bill's sponsors that committed the company to keeping rates level for basic service in the first two years following approval into law.

The second level contains classrooms, an indoor pool, gyms, art, music, driver education, and FHACS ( Family Health & Consumer Sciences ) classrooms.

Hard drives ( Consumer Electronics Drives ) designed specifically by manufacturers for use with PVRs provide a considerably lower noise level and produce significantly less heat, reducing the need for internal fans to operate as frequently and again cutting down on noise generation.

The Consumer Product Safety Act defines the term ‘‘ low speed electric bicycle ’’ as a two-or three-wheeled vehicle with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts ( 1 horsepower ), whose maximum speed on a paved level surface, when powered solely by such a motor while ridden by an operator who weighs 170 pounds, is less than 20 mph ( 15 U. S. C.

After exhibiting at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 1999, Mike Ramsay announced to the company that the first version of the TiVo digital video recorder would ship " In Q1 ," ( the last day of which is 31 March ) despite an estimated four to five months of work remaining to complete the device.

Consumer electronics include personal digital assistants ( PDAs ), mp3 players, mobile phones, videogame consoles, digital cameras, DVD players, GPS receivers, and printers.

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.

Consumer activist Ralph Nader argued the act was an example of corporate welfare spawned by political corruption, because it gave away to incumbent broadcasters valuable licenses for broadcasting digital signals on the public airwaves.

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

In the 1990s, he had teamed up with RCA / Thomson Consumer Electronics and Hughes Electronics Corporation to come up with a practical digital satellite service capable of 175 channels.

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

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

Enhanced-definition television, or extended-definition television ( EDTV ) is an American Consumer Electronics Association ( CEA ) marketing shorthand term for certain digital television ( DTV ) formats and devices.

The Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations ( BALANCE ) Act of 2003 is a bill that would amend Title 17 of the United States Code, " to safeguard the rights and expectations of consumers who lawfully obtain digital entertainment.

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

The new company, to be called AT & T Consumer Services, planned to " significantly accelerate " efforts to offer digital telephone, data and video services as the companies combined the long distance, wireless and dial-up Internet service of AT & T with the cable, high-speed Internet and telecommunications services of TCI.

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

Consumer electronics devices make use of flexible circuits in cameras, personal entertainment devices, calculators, or exercise monitors.

As of Spring 2010, all new Olympus cameras announced at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show and Photo Marketing Association International Trade Show can use SD cards.

These segments included Dateline: Survivor, where a person talks about their near death experience and rescue ; Dateline Timeline, where a popular product, person, and music single are played and viewers are invited to guess what year it appeared in ; State of the Art, explaining how something was technically accomplished in a movie ; Consumer Alert, where common consumer complaints or issues, such as food safety, are investigated, Dateline Hidden Camera Investigation, a story using hidden cameras to focus on an issue of public concern, and Newsmakers, light interviews of major figures in politics, entertainment, and business, as well as regular people in the news.

Internationally there is the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network ( ICPEN ), which was formed in 1991 from an informal network of government customer fair trade organisations.

A manager from one of the agencies involved in testing, Guangdong Consumer Associates, blamed " unsanitary raw materials used in production " for the high bacteria counts.

After selling it to Niklas Zennström from Sweden and Janus Friis from Denmark, it was introduced in March 2001 by their Dutch company Consumer Empowerment.

Consumer goods such as pharmaceuticals, perfume, fashion clothing can use either type of authentication method to prevent counterfeit goods from taking advantage of a popular brand's reputation ( damaging the brand owner's sales and reputation ).

Consumer surplus is thus the definite integral of the demand function with respect to price, minus the definite integral of the constant function D ( P )= Q < sub > mkt </ sub > ( i. e. P < sub > mkt </ sub > Q < sub > mkt </ sub >), from the market price to the maximum reservation price ( i. e. the price-intercept of the demand function ):

Consumer backlash was significant from environmentalists and chocolate lovers.

In 2009, Bunge Expands its Central European Consumer Margarine Business by acquiring the margarine business from Raisio Group.

The ratings were based on data from CMS, the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems ( CAHPS ), Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set ( HEDIS ) data, and the Health Outcomes Survey ( HOS ).

It was first shown, privately, at the Chicago Consumer Electronics Show in 1977, and soon the company was receiving 50 calls a day from dealers wanting to sell the computer.

In July 1984, Tramel Technology bought the Consumer Division of Atari Inc. from Warner Communications.

The preliminary results from the Consumer Confidence Survey are released on the last Tuesday of each month at 10am EST.

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.

From January 2000 through September 2005, the Consumer Product Safety Commission ( CPSC ) received 50 reports of incidents involving finger amputations, lacerations, and other severe injuries from paper shredders.

Consumer protection laws are distinct from anti-trust.

Cora Hubbard, who was 20 at the time, John Sheets, a 23-year-old from Missouri, and 31-year-old Albert Whitfield “ Whit ” Tennison robbed the Mcdonald County Bank stealing a total of $ 589. 23 ( the equivalent of $ 15, 700 in 2009 on the Consumer Price Index scale ).

It is divided into two parts, the first being " The Consumer ", a series of short stories from the early 1990s, the second, " Various Traps, Some Weaknesses ", made up mostly of prose-poems and vignettes, all dating from 1983 – 1986.

She was the Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture from 2001 to 2005.

Commonly, remote controls are Consumer IR devices used to issue commands from a distance to televisions or other consumer electronics such as stereo systems, DVD players and dimmers.

* Harvey W. Wiley: Pioneer Consumer Activist, from the January – February 2006 issue of FDA Consumer magazinex

And in Consumer Research: Postcards from the edge, when discussing behavioral and economic studies, the authors contrasted the " enclosed locations " used with Large Group Awareness Trainings with the " relatively open " environment of a " variety store ".

Cora Hubbard, who was 20 at the time, John Sheets, a 23-year-old from Missouri, and 31-year-old Albert Whitfield “ Whit ” Tennison robbed the Mcdonald County Bank stealing a total of $ 589. 23 ( the equivalent of $ 15, 700 in 2009 on the Consumer Price Index scale ).