Digital Shift, Rise of Video Products Lead Portable A/V Trends

摘要

Portable audio-video (A/V) products continue to gain popularity as more advanced equipment appears, making it more convenient for users to listen to music or watch video software anywhere and anytime. Mainstream portable A/V products consist of audio equipment, such as headphone stereos, portable CD players and portable MiniDisc (MD) products. In this area, the transition to digital technologies is fully underway. Meanwhile, demand for portable video equipment, such as portable LCD TVs and portable DVD players equipped with LCDs, has been picking up. With advances in digital compression technology, audio players, video cameras and video viewers using small memory cards as recording media have become commercially available. These products broaden the variety of A/V products available for consumers and should fuel continued growth in the portable A/V equipment market.