In this age of consumer control, brand marketers and traditional ad agencies are actually leading their marketing efforts with event-based programming, and then turning that footage into TV spots.
High Definition movies and stills can be shared with family and friends on an HD television via HDMI output, and control slideshows and video using the HDMI Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) interface that is a part of most modern remote controls from HDTV manufacturers.
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Any time there's a new technology that empowers the consumer, some people in the industry get nervous because it's all about control, and there are a lot of people in the industry who don't want to see the consumer have control.
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To enjoy the TL34HD's high-definition video on an HDTV television, consumers simply dock the camera into a proprietary Samsung HDMI CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) cradle (sold separately).
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Other advanced features now included in all Denon receivers are HDMI 1.3a Repeater Inputs with Deep Color, xv-Color and CEC (Consumer Electronics Control), analog-to-HDMI conversion and HD Audio decoding from Dolby and dts.
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Touting itself as the industry's "first smart mobile provider, " Zact takes an entirely different tact to cell phone service, offering the consumer total control over voice, text and data plans, even across multiple devices.
Hopper with Sling is all about consumer choice and control over the TV experience.
And second, the pay-TV companies have the capacity to evolve with changing consumer preferences as they control the networks (including the Internet).
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Although the top eight established consumer-finance companies control roughly 80% of the market, their reputations have been hurt by scandals over aggressive collection methods and outrageous interest rates.
One of the key talking points consistently mouthed by opponents of the Affordable Care Act is their declaration that the law wrests control of healthcare out from the hands of the consumer and places it squarely under the control of the federal government.
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Calvin Klein seems to be the one company that recognized the female contingent watching the Super Bowl who control so much consumer spending.
Some of the areas where you can exercise some control include: consumer debt, discretionary spending, savings, 401(k) allocations, your emergency fund and most importantly your overall goals.
Drawing on more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences.
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"SYNC and AppLink work hand-in-hand to answer consumer demand for safer, smarter control of smartphones while in the car, " said VanDagens.
Most of them are being tasked with coming up with new go-to-market strategies that take into consideration a new consumer empowered by technology and in control of the conversation.
This would ensure that popular vectors, developed by cyber criminals to attack and control the target rich consumer space would not also lead to infections of SCADA controllers, transaction processors, or real time environments.
For one thing, it suggests that the software giant has finally concluded that Steve Jobs was right all along: that in order to make consumer-friendly computers one must control both the hardware and the software.
There is almost as much statistical noise in the wettability of the paper and the leaf from one bag to the next as there is in dissolution rates, and small changes in manufacture usually matter more than anything the consumer on the teabag side can control.
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As the Wall Street Journal noted this week in " Guys Left Behind (GLBs), " though we still haven't elected a female president (apparently the yardstick of equality these days), women are making it in terms of college education (nearly 60% of grads are women), political muscle (53% of 2008 electorate were women), market influence (women control 80% of consumer spending) and employment.
Women also control a huge amount of consumer spending, with estimates ranging from 65 percent to 85 percent.
Like Jobs, MacDonald was a master of many eras: His company introduced the first portable radio, the wireless remote control and became synonymous with consumer electronics innovation.
Factor in consumer comfort with iPhone-like touch control and suddenly businesses are looking at a new family of tools: TV sets that can play an interactive role in a firm.
The first half of 2013 will be a time when self-assessed delivery, customer and consumer communication and angel experience in quality control and supply chain operations will become key topics.
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If, as predicted, utility prices rise by as much as 40% later this year and interest rates are increased to control rising inflation, consumers and consumer facing businesses will face even bleaker times.
From Japan we learned just in time inventory control, manufacturing quality control and continuous improvement, innovation in consumer electronics design, and an appreciation for sushi.
The fundamental problem, of course, is that with a third party paying the bills, the consumer, or the patient, has no incentive to control costs.
Women control up to 80% of all discretionary consumer expenditure.
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Retail sales have been rising, the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index has been rising, consumer confidence indexes have been rising, and inflation remains under control.
Ford and SYNC will answer the consumer demand by offering the only platform available for drivers to safely control their mobile devices and applications in the car.
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But is the amount of control worth the perception that the system is obtusely anti-consumer?
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