Portable maker gets into TVs and DVD
ON THE FLOOR: AIWA
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Portable maker gets into TVs and DVD
by Stewart Wolpin
LAS VEGAS, January 8, 1999 -- Not every manufacturer likes to spend the wads of dough it takes to exhibit on the show floor. Some like to take suites in not-so-nearby hotels. Of course what's inexpensive for some companies is annoying to people who have to wander off the main convention campus to find them. But that's our problem, right?
In any event, leading portable maker Aiwa was sequestered as usual at the Desert Inn, displaying its usual array of portable CD players, boomboxes, mini- and micro-systems, as well as some new components. Among the latter were three new a/v receivers including two Dolby Digital/DTS models, a standalone DVD player (XD-DV1000, no price or availability yet), and five new TVs.
In the solution-looking-for-a-problem department, amongst the company's new clock/radios is one with an IC recorder to store those middle-in-the-night brainstorms or evidence of your spouse's snoring. Just what we were waiting for.
And now, on to the pictures.
Ripping a page out of competitor Panasonic's DVD playbook, Aiwa will introduce its own PalmTheater-like portable DVD player. The XD-DW1 on display was a mockup with no price or availability announced.
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You could draw a conclusion that this Aiwa player might be Cube based after reading this:
Solutions Endorsed by Toshiba, Samsung and Aiwa
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But then you would have to believe they didn't screw this up... |
