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The Week in
Review: June 9-15, 2003
Last week's features at
3DsoundSurge
Last week's sound news
Drivers and bugs
New
games, demos, patches and bugs
Audio director/designer interviews
Music for Games has posted three new interviews:
Reviews of soundcards, speakers, headphones and MP3
players.
- Apple iPod
Anandtech has posted
a detailed review of Apple's new iPod. It's a very positive review even though they
consider it to offer an evolutionary rather than revolutionary improvement compared to the
original iPod as well as the competition.
Other sound news
- Spatializer Audio Laboratories Holds Annual
Stockholders Meeting
Spatializer Audio Laboratories held its annual stockholders' meeting on Friday June 13th.
After the formal meeting was adjourned, Spatializer Chairman and CEO Henry R. Mandell
reviewed the past year's performance and outlined its challenges and opportunities for the
coming year. The company's five existing pathways of targeted growth were identified as
virtual surround, speaker enhancement, headphone enhancement, Spatializer Interactive and
consulting services. Spatializer Interactive (SI) brings
Spatializer Audio Laboratories' renowned expertise and focus on psychoacoustic audio in
the consumer electronics market to PC manufacturers and Internet content providers alike,
resulting in business partnerships that deliver meaningful product solutions that improve
Internet and PC-based audio. SI, through its products, sales programs and relationships
intends to build a value network between consumers, manufacturers and content providers
that will be the bridging facilitator for the home computing and entertainment
convergence.
Spatializer's fiscal 2002 revenues were $1,856,000, compared to
$1,604,000 in 2001, an increase of 16%. Net income for fiscal 2001 was $18,000, or $0.00
per share, compared to net loss of ($240,000, or ($0.01) per share, in the prior year.
Stockholder's equity and working capital were stable at $1.4 million and $1.1 million,
respectively.
For more details you can check out the full
press release.
- Boston Acoustics Announces Fourth Quarter Results
Boston Acoustics has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the fiscal
year ended March 29, 2003. Net sales for the quarter were $13.4 million compared to $20.6
million for the same period a year ago, a decrease of $7.2 million or 35%. The Company
reported net income for the quarter of $419,000 compared to $1.5 million for the
corresponding period last year. Although the Company had net income for the fourth
quarter, it incurred an operating loss during the quarter of approximately $2.6 million. Net sales for the fiscal year decreased to $70.6 million compared to $85.3
million for the same period a year ago. Net income for the year was $1.8 million compared
to $3.9 million a year ago. You can find more details in the full press release.
- Philips Electronics Announce Stylish and
Innovative Gift Ideas
Offering consumers a glimpse into the future, Philips Electronics displayed the latest
technologies and trends of tomorrow with its complete line of holiday gift ideas at the
2003 Holidays in June/Consumer Electronics Line Show event. Philips' annual event featured
gift solutions that spanned across all product lines, including audio, video, television,
business solutions, lighting, medical, personal care and kitchen appliances. When it comes
to audio they presented Philips Streamium MC-i250 Wireless Internet Audio system and the
new HDD100 featuring 15GB and the patented SuperScroll(TM) providing fast and precise
navigation. You can find more
details about these and many other products in the press release.
- iRiver America Introduces New SlimX
iRiver has announced the newest addition to its award-winning SlimX MP3 CD product line.
The SlimX 550 is the thinnest MP3 CD player with the longest battery life on the market.
Customers can easily manage hundreds of standard, MP3 or WMA songs on a single CD with up
to 55 hours of continuous playtime*. The SlimX 550 also has a built-in FM tuner, 32 minute
skip-free** music playback and upgradeable firmware for new formats and product features.
You can find more details in
the press release.
For more news from last week check out our news archive.
Upcoming features at 3DsoundSurgeReviews that we are currently working on:
Updated Santa Cruz/Sonic Fury and GameTheaterXP reviews
Hercules Fortissimo II
Terratec DMX Xfire 1024
CMedia CM8738 Reference Review
Full Audigy Review
Full Philips MMS305 Review
There are several other hardware reviews in the pipeline
including, but not limited to the following:
Guillemot Maxi Sound MUSE
Terratec m3po
DigMedia MusicStore
Philips Seismic Edge
Lots of other stuff on the go in including several guides and major site revisions that we
will soon be releasing more details on.
As always if you have any ideas for products we should review or features we should do,
please let us know.
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