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Research and Markets: China Sourcing Report: Home Entertainment 2010 Featuring In-Depth Profiles Of 24 Major Suppliers With A Look At Their Manufacturing And Export Capability

April 15, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

DUBLIN–(Business Wire)–
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/971e9b/china_sourcing_rep) has
announced the addition of the “China Sourcing Report: Home Entertainment – 2010″
report to their offering.

The home entertainment industry in China continues to expand as suppliers secure
their position as the leading hub for this line worldwide. Dominating global
output, manufacturers provide more than half of the worlds TVs, A/V players,
speakers and amplifiers.

The selection covers low-end, midrange and upscale models, differentiated mainly
by the key components and materials used, including display panels, ICs and
housings.

Additional distinguishing factors are multifunction features, enhanced user
interface, connectivity options and customized external designs.

With global economic recovery on the horizon, suppliers are optimistic of a
revitalized industry, driven by dynamic A/V advancements and progress in the
Internet, wireless and green technologies.

The following are some of the key trends observed in Chinas home entertainment
industry:

* The latest enhancements in broadband, digital and wireless technologies are
shaping R&D and manufacture across the different product categories. These are
particularly notable in the TV segment where flat-panel models are steadily
phasing out analog CRT versions.
* The global shift to high definition is prompting suppliers to offer more
compliant products, including HDTVs, HDMI-enabled DVD and Blu-ray players, and a
range of HD set-top boxes.
* Energy-saving policies in major export markets are overhauling production
processes to meet mandatory restrictions on power consumption. Some proactive
suppliers have gone ahead of their competitors and have developed green devices,
including low-power LCD and plasma TVs, and STBs.
* Makers are struggling to weather numerous challenges, with cutthroat
competition topping the list. Stringent market requirements, IPR issues and
rising production costs are also keeping suppliers constantly on their toes.
* Redirected efforts to emerging export markets, including the Middle East,
non-EU countries and the Asia-Pacific region, have kept many businesses afloat
during the financial slowdown. Most suppliers will continue this strategy,
although some are eyeing the US and the EU as the economy further improves in
coming months.

This report covers CRT, LCD and plasma TVs, DVD, Blu-ray and multimedia players,
STBs, radios, and home theater speakers, subwoofers and amplifiers.

The Industry Overview discusses developments in Chinas supply, and key trends
and challenges faced by makers. The products are discussed in separate modules
that detail features and functions in mainstream models. Price and R&D trends
are also covered.

Guangdong province, with its abundant materials and components and accessible
services available to suppliers, is Chinas largest home entertainment products
manufacturing hub.

The cities of Shenzhen, Dongguan, Huizhou and Guangzhou are leading output.
Nearby provinces, including Fujian, also contribute to the country’s production.

The supplier base is composed of companies with diverse manufacturing
backgrounds, capability and relevant experiences.

Most specialize in a particular line such as TVs or speakers, while some offer a
range of products to provide a complete home entertainment selection.

This report covers CRT, LCD and plasma TVs, DVD, Blu-ray and multimedia players,
STBs, radios, and home theater speakers, subwoofers and amplifiers.

What you’ll get

* In-depth profiles of 24 major suppliers with a comprehensive look at their
manufacturing and export capability, verified contact details, and more – this
information is not available anywhere else
* 101 full-color images that depict popular home entertainment export models,
complete with product descriptions, prices, minimum order requirements and
delivery times
* Verified supplier contact details of an additional 20 exporters, including
names, e-mails, telephone numbers and websites
* Supplier information in tabular format to help you compare companies at a
glance
* Results of the custom-designed supplier survey, which forecasts industry
trends for the next 12 months
* An extensive overview of the industry discussing the main challenges facing
suppliers
* An in-depth examination of the supplier base highlighting key characteristics
of different types of companies
* Details of the primary production centers
* An update of the latest trends in design, R&D, materials and components
* A review of the key factors that influence the price and quality of low-end,
midrange and high-end products
* Comprehensive pricing tables featuring export price ranges

Who should read this report

* CEOs, Directors, Presidents, Business Owners
* Export/ Import Managers, Sourcing Representatives, Sourcing Engineers, Supply
Chain Directors, Procurement Managers, Agents
* Sales Executives & Managers, Marketing Executives & Managers, International
Buyers
* Business Consultants, Investment Managers
* Anyone who needs to understand the China supply market

Key Topics Covered:

* INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
* Supplier summary
* Production & exports
* Main production center
* Supplier demographics
* TVs
* A/V players & recorders
* Speakers
* Supplier survey
* Export prices, price decrease, export sales, target markets, capital
expenditure, challenges, export capability, R&D focus
* SUPPLIER PROFILES
* Supplier locations
* Industry composition
* Exporter ranking
* Supplier matrix
* In-house processes
* Supplier profiles
* PRODUCT GALLERY
* Top-selling export products
* ADDITIONAL SUPPLIERS
* Key products, contact details

Methodology:

To produce this report, Global Sources surveyed a wide range of suppliers.
Rather than focus simply on high-profile makers, we compiled a representative
sample of large, midsize and emerging manufacturers. All profiled companies are
export-oriented professional suppliers that may or may not be clients of Global
Sources.

The selection of suppliers is designed to reflect the composition of the
industry in China in terms of geographic spread, business type and company
ownership.

For in-depth company profiles, our research teams interviewed senior executives
and export managers who discussed their recent performance and provided price,
R&D, production and export forecasts for the next 12 months. The interviews were
done in person, by phone or e-mail.

In each case, companies were required to answer specific questions designed to
verify their manufacturing and export credentials, including their production
and export statistics, and a breakdown of exports by product type and market.
Our production checklist details the product-specific manufacturing capability
of each supplier.

All profiled suppliers participated in a survey designed to provide insight into
product and price trends, and challenges facing the industry. All survey
questions are single choice. Results were calculated based on the actual number
of valid responses to each question.

For more information visit

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/971e9b/china_sourcing_rep

Research and Markets
Laura Wood, Senior Manager,
press@researchandmarkets.com
U.S. Fax: 646-607-1907
Fax (outside U.S.): +353-1-481-1716

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Process that lights up big-screen plasma TVs can produce super-clean fuel

March 23, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Washington, March 23 (ANI): The technology used to light up big-screen plasma TVs has a hidden application – creating ultra-clean fuel, say researchers.

Albin Czernichowski, a professor at the University of Orleans in France, described a small, low-tech, inexpensive device called a GlidArc reactor that uses electrically-charged clouds of gas called “plasmas” to produce super-clean fuels from waste materials in three steps.

One is a diesel fuel that releases 10 times less air pollution than its notoriously sooty, smelly conventional counterpart.

Czernichowski noted that the reactors, about the size of a refrigerator, are custom designed to clean dirty gases produced by a low-tech gasification of locally available wastes, biomass, or other resources to produce clean mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas to synthesize biofuels.

Corn farming regions, for instance, could use corn stover (leaves and stalks left in the field after harvest) as the raw material. In urban areas, waste cooking oil from restaurants could be the raw material. In regions that produce biodiesel fuel, glycerol could be converted into clean fuels.

Czernichowski pointed out production of biofuels results in huge amounts of glycerol byproduct – 200 pounds for every 2,000 pounds of biodiesel.

The glycerol is expensive to refine to the high purity needed for commercial use. GlidArc reactors could transform glycerol into a clean synthesis gas (the carbon monoxide and hydrogen) for production of fuels, he said.

Czernichowski realized in 1986 that a branch of science called non-equilibrium cold plasma could be used to produce new transportation fuels that are less polluting than their conventional counterparts as they lack harmful substances found in traditional transportation fuels.

The technology gets it name from the use of a gliding arc of electricity to that produces a plasma inside the reactor. The plasma allows chemical reactions to occur at dramatically reduced temperatures.

Gases from heating (pyrolyse or gasification) biomass or glycerol, for instance, become clean and chemically active, and this allows for the transformation of those materials into clean fuels.

“The main advantage of such biobased fuels that the GlidArc Technology can create is that they constitute “drop-in replacements” for fossil Diesel oil, gasoline or kerosene, and no modifications are needed in engines, vehicles and distribution systems,” Czernichowski said.

“The biofuels can also be used as additives to various types of engine fuels to improve certain fuel properties. Another important advantage, of course, is their much lower toxicity for mankind and the environment compared to conventional fuels,” Czernichowski added.

The research has been presented at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS). (ANI)

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Outrage over exotic cuisine for foreign criminals in UK detention centre

June 22, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

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London, June 22 (ANI): The news that foreign criminals, including rapists and terrorists, are being treated to lavish cuisine as they wait to be deported, has not gone down with the taxpayers in Britain./pp
There is an outrage among residents over money being spent on the preparation of mouthwatering dishes for 383 inmates, who are currently staying at a luxurious 47 million pounds Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre in Berkshire./pp
The menu that these detainees are being offered includes oriental poached fish parcels, beef goulash and mint lamb stew. Each detainee is offered four choices for lunch and dinner, plus three vegetable options and a dessert. /pp
The idea that these people should enjoy hotel-style standards of service and food is preposterous. Given the recession we’re living in, most people will think this type of arrangement is outrageous, the Sun quoted Matthew Elliott, a local resident, as saying./pp
Other delicacies offered to them include chicken chasseur, fish gumbo and beef and onion pie. /pp
They are handed a menu at the start of the week and asked to mark their choices for the next seven days – with food cooked to order. /pp
Some of the dishes are so exotic they put Gordon Ramsay to shame. The grub’s certainly better than the local hotels. Now every foreign con wants to come here because the food is so good, an official said./pp
The scandal is the latest to hit the Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre in Berkshire, which is run by a private firm ‘Serco’. /pp
Earlier it was reported how the detainees had access to Nintendo Wiis and plasma TVs. (ANI)/p

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Australian firm to install device that turns off appliances and ration electricity

March 29, 2009 By admin 1 Comment

Sydney, March 29 (ANI): An electricity company in Australia is planning to install a new electronic control box in homes, which would allow it to switch off individual appliances, such as air conditioners and plasma TVs, to ration power use.
According to a report carried out in news.com.au, the new device, made by Australian firm ETSA, would go in the meter box and remotely read meters, turn power on and off, report outages – and, if the customer agreed, ration power to an individual home.

It is controlled by an FM radio signal and on a house-by-house basis.

ETSA chief executive Lew Owens said that the new device, now being trialled, could prevent the kind of load-shedding blackouts across entire suburbs that Adelaide experienced in January, by reducing demand across the city.

ETSA wants to introduce the system some time after 2010 and could eventually roll it out into all homes in Adelaide.

It follows the successful trial by ETSA of a less sophisticated “peak breaker” box attached to air conditioners in Mawson Lakes and Glenelg, which was used to turn off refrigerated air conditioner compressors in periods of peak demand during heat waves.

“We can turn off the compressors and leave the fan circulating the air,” said Owens. “We turn it off 15 minutes in every hour by an FM radio signal and the customer doesn’t know it’s happened,” he added.

The trials found that peak electricity demand during heatwaves could be reduced dramatically by the control boxes, with Mawson Lakes homes’ power consumption cut by about a third, and Glenelg’s by about 20 per cent.

Owens emphasised that while ETSA planned to put the new boxes in all homes, customers would choose whether to allow it to be used to ration power.

However, he added that people who did not take this option might find they would lose all power when power demand was running at peak levels.

According to ETSA, the box is sophisticated enough to control specific equipment in the home. (ANI)

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Lewis Hamilton splashes out on 5m pounds yacht

March 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Mar 6 (ANI): F1 champ Lewis Hamilton has bought a 90-ft yacht worth 5million pounds.

The 23-year-old star’s new boat named Sunseeker 90 has eight bedrooms including a master suite, VIP suite and two twin guest cabins.

It also has a luxury lounge, plasma TVs and hi-fi system.

He has also painted it silver and black like his McLaren racing car.

Hamilton plans to place his yacht in Monaco, where he can soak up the sun with Pussycat Doll girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger, 29.

It is being finished at Sunseeker’s yard in Portland, Dorset, before being transported to Monte Carlo.

“Lewis will be very impressed with it,” the Sun quoted a worker as saying. (ANI)

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Coffee stains to inspire cheaper TV screens of tomorrow

March 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, March 2 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have been inspired by coffee stains to suggest a cheaper option of making transparent conductive coatings for TV screens in the future.

In LCDs (liquid crystal displays), transparent conductive coatings are used to form an electrode on the surface of the screen, while in plasma TVs they provide a shield that prevents electromagnetic fields from straying.

The traditional techniques for making such coatings include sputtering a fine layer of indium tin oxide (ITO) onto the surface.

ITO is highly conductive and transparent to visible light, but the process is expensive, requiring clean rooms and vacuum chambers.

Now, according to a report in New Scientist, Ivan Vakarelski at the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences in Singapore realised that coffee stains could point the way to a cheaper alternative.

Spill coffee and the evaporating liquid drives coffee particles to the edges of the spill, which ultimately produces the circular stain.

The coffee granules are being “assembled” by the varying evaporation and convection rates in the fluid.

Vakarelski and his colleagues figured that if they could mimic the process in a controlled fashion, they could create a pattern of granules of other materials to form a nanoscale conductive coating.

Instead of coffee, they started with a suspension of gold particles, each about 20 nanometres across. The suspension was left to dry on a glass plate covered with closely packed latex microspheres, each about 50 to 100 micrometres in diameter.

By adding suitable surfactants and lowering the temperature to 4 degree Ceslisus, the team was able to control the evaporation and convection rates, causing the gold particles to move to the base of the latex balls where they settled to form rings and bridges.

Once the liquid had evaporated, they were left with a network of connected gold nanoparticles.

“Our gold network is finer than spider’s silk and is also conductive,” said Vakarelski. He reckons that gold nanonets could make even better conductors than ITO coatings.

The team has made coatings a few square centimetres in size in the laboratory and aim to increase this tenfold.

“Unlike many new technologies, the nanonet process will be easy to scale up,” said Vakarelski. (ANI)

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