This decline in sales volumes should be accompanied by further price declines. The observers are less optimistic, forecast a further drop in average prices by about 15% this year. GfK forecasts for its part an average selling price to 409 euros, against 432 euros this year. In fact, the price remains the basic tenet that consumers look for when buying a TV. Long before it is raised, or LED in touch! This year, 20% of televisions sold will be equipped with 3D and over one third will be connected.This figure rises to more than half, given that the screen is of more than 80 cm. This is also one of the main trends. Manufacturers are betting on ever larger screen sizes. One feature that has at least the merit of jumping in the eyes of most customers neophytes.

Consumers are increasingly likely to know that after the advent of flat screens, there is no need to be several feet from his TV to watch it.The diagonal of 80 cm that have appeared there still five years, as a large (almost) figure of small television in terms of newcomers, some reaching 150 cm. “The screen size is not going to continue to increase for life eternam provides a distributor. For a simple reason: we can no longer be displayed in many shops” where you could place four TV dealers make more room ..

• The folly of helmets

It ‘a bit’ the exception that proves the rule. The high-end headphone market has never been better. In one year, sales of helmets to over 200 euros more than doubled, reaching nearly 120 thousand units. Far from the average sales price for headphones and earphones, which is 26 euros! Try this healthy, the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC mobile has not hesitated to spend $ 309 million to take control of half of the capital of the famous brand of headphones Dr. Dre. The popularity of these high-end products corresponds to the new mode of music consumption. The big brands have captured the argument. They communicate the importance of a “good sound”, compete imagination to make their products lighter, more qualitative, son … without a helmet, equipped with noise reducers, able to isolate the user from outside and then reduce the listening volume. A strong argument, but medical experts are constantly educate consumers, especially young people, the risk of deafness caused by the use of headphones at high volume.

The strong market performance of the helmet is linked to that of smartphones and MP3 players. While sales of smartphones were expected to stabilize at current levels (just over 12 million units), the accessories should continue to remain dynamic, thanks to the very low level of equipment (less than a dynamic sales incidental to the main unit last year) and demand still connected to the players. Last year, 438,000 of these portable players were sold in France. Who knows what will get this year?!

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This year, consumers should be heavily loaded with smartphones, with a preference for products with less than 200 euros (without packaging). This request will be driven by new services offered by operators. But the products that are most “dreams” consumers are the flat-screen TV generation. However, for budgetary reasons, be less inclined to proceed with the purchase.

The PC resistance

“The global market for information technology has reached a record level, with 8 million phones sold in France last year,” says GfK. Laptops, which is still thought slowdown, competition from the shelves, more than half of those sales. After several quarters of decline, purchases of PCs are indeed beginning to rebound. If the prices (549 euros on average for a notebook with a screen 15 inches) are a subject adopted by consumers, they say they are more sensitive to the characteristics (storage capacity, graphics card, screen size … ). In addition, the notebook market is reinvigorated by Ultrabooks (or ultrafine) lighter. It uses access to the market this year of the new Windows 8.

Another market that has found a second wind, the desktop “all-in-one”, these screens all-in-one, which also contain a hard drive. I’m still a bit ‘more expensive than traditional office PC, but less bulky and very popular with players, willing to pay big bucks for their passion. Finally, what are netbooks that have suffered most the emergence of tablets. Sales of smaller laptops are down 15% in a year. Are directly and adversely affected by rising sales of tablets that have reached 1.5 million in 2011, including 500,000 for the month of December! This market is still dominated by Apple and its iPad, despite a relatively high selling price. Shelves with Wi Telecom 3G still purchase a “default”, when the only still available, according to GfK, which evokes the high price associated with subscriptions offered by telecom operators. In France, three times more expensive than in Britain (12 euros per month) where the tablet with 3G sales third against the fifth ‘Hexagon. French users prefer the wide Wi-Fi to 3G for their tablets.

TV: larger, more economic

OR 3D, or the connected TV will have enabled TV manufacturers to keep prices of their products. Consumers were not enthusiastic about this technology and have not been willing to pay more for them. The transition to digital terrestrial, which was the main driver of market growth in France is almost finished, the market is expected to record a significant setback in 2012, dropping to 7.6 million euros (compared to a record 8.7 million last year). Figure could even drop to 6 million in two years. Until then, it remains to half of French households to be equipped with flat screen. Two have a CRT TV.

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It has never been able to buy as many consumer electronic products, such as sophisticated and so cheap. Consumers will be able to give your heart to multiply joy and equipment. ”The purchasing power of the techniques of products developed in the last ten years,” says the company GfK in its latest study, published yesterday. In four years, the average price of TVs fell by 40%, for notebooks, 35%, while that of DVD players has fallen to 75% from 550 in 2007 to € 148 € last year. French families have taken the opportunity to expand their facilities.

They bought 137 million electronic devices last year, 20% more than in 2007. At the same time, the global market value of the units decreased by 11% over the same period, to represent no more than “only” 16.8 billion euros. Yet this sector is probably the one who has experienced the greatest number of changes over the last decade. Almost half of the property sold today do not exist or not in their present form in 2000. The CRT has given way to flat-screen TV, and 3D connected. Smartphone, tablet, MP3 players, digital cameras have swept the market.

The emergence of these new products has been accompanied by a new phenomenon, the multi-equipment. Gone are the days when people bought a TV for a house. In 2011, there were 1.5 per family. “France is a little ‘under-equipped compared to other countries, said a spokesman for GfK. In Britain, this ratio is 2.2 televisions per household.” Countless phone home, but nearly 58 million mobilephones in France. Paradoxically, neither the appetite of consumers for products or technological innovations have enabled the sector to maintain prices, with rare exceptions.

TV turns dreams

The fierce competition with brands not explain everything. The economies of scale, once a product sold several million copies to allow manufacturers to lower their selling prices. Moreover, the rapid obsolescence of technology resources, induced by continuous innovation, leads to lower average selling prices. Manufacturers are under pressure from other sectors. Thus, players video (DVD or Blu-ray) are directly challenged by video on demand (VOD). This represents 34% of the video market in France, with an increase of 10% in a year. Thirty million movie is rented or downloaded (legally) last year. This openness is also found among the markets. Sales of tablets have detracted from PCs, smartphones have weighed on demand for GPS or compact camera … with occasional reversals. The GPS brands have adapted their products to users’ expectations. By car, 80% of smartphone owners prefer to use a mobile browser or an integrated system for their vehicle rather than move their phone, according to GfK. Last year, the GPS market still accounted for 280 million euros in France. Not bad for a product that has been moribund said.

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Nikon has announced the D4 SLR for professional photographers. It has a full-frame sensor with 16.2 million pixels and is capable of firing up to 10 images per second in full autofocus. The most striking features are, however, that it operates with very low light with ISO at 204,800, and that it records video at 1080p and 25 frames per second, uncompressed HDMI output. The D4 will be available next February, priced at about 5,800 euros. With this camera, Nikon Strikes and is on par with Canon, which last October announced its flagship EOS 1DX. Both cameras have similar features and maximum performance that can give a professional camera with CMOS sensor with 24 x 36 mm, the same size as the film reel. The Canon 1DX has a 18 megapixel sensor shoots up to 14 images per second, but Nikon says its auto focus is extremely precise. For photojournalists both Nikon and Canon now offer a device that fills their greatest needs.

Nikon’s announcement occurs in the wake of the ESC, which opens in Las Vegas on Tuesday. This year we expect many developments in photography at CES, because this show in consumer electronics trade accounted for the PMA, which was traditionally held in February and many brands were expected to present their new products. With the disappearance of the LDCs, all the ads are concentrated in the U.S. at CES.

The D4 is a Nikon D3s – intelligent evolution, which was announced in October 2009. With the ISO 12,800, which can be expanded to 204,800, you can make stunning pictures in low light scenes, or with a telephoto lens with a large depth of field. D4 meets the shutter speed and precision focusing with high image quality. This is possible thanks to a new processor and autofocus system, which combines the best of the extensive experience and expertise of Nikon.

The last feature of the D4 is the ability to record video at 1080p and 25 frames per second, or 720p and 50 frames per second, up to a total of 20 minutes, which is why Nikon has developed a means of SLR camera. And it is possible to directly download the video recording with HDMI output.

The camera has a viewfinder and controls 100% of the ultraluminous light which makes it easier to take pictures in low light. It has two slots, one for high-speed CF cards and one for the xQD new format, based on CF, but much faster. The rear screen is 3.2 inches with 921,000 pixels.

This year we expect a lot of ads for cameras, because in 2011 the Japanese had to delay or cancel many projects as a result of the tsunami floods in March and October in Thailand, where many companies make body and lenses.

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The crackle of 2012 is called ultrabook, ultra-light. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which starts tomorrow in Las Vegas (United States) there are nearly fifty of these devices which aspire to be the perfect computer: the fusion of the best of (compressed and drums pound underweight eight hours) and the best laptop(capacity, larger screen and keyboard). They are the great hope of the leading manufacturers in the computer (HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo …) who have seen their sales decrease due to the phenomenon of the tablet. Then to see if the consumer is tempted. The CES last year featured the tablets, with over 100 models on display. As a concept it has been a spectacular success (this year, according to Gartner, they will sell 103 million units, up 63%), although 70% of this market purchased the Apple iPad. Consumers do not always embrace what the industry offers. 2010 was the year of 3D TV, but two years later is still rooted in the households, the devices are expensive and inconvenient especially for family reunions. In the case of ultrabooks they match different factors such as the phenomenon of the year: manufacturers of computer crashes due to the pills (only PC sales will grow by 4.5% this year to 370 million units), manufacturers of processors that have lost highlight; the thrust of the smartphone (Intel) and software vendors have also suppressed the cell (Microsoft). Intel, which has patented the term Ultrabook and only for use on a target that the chips-Microsoft, Lenovo, Toshiba, Acer and Asus bet in mid-2011 for this type of portable dual-K (a kilo and a kilo of euros) with no commercial impact.

But in 2012, according to iSuppli, 13% of all laptops sold are ultrabooks, and next year the figures will rise to 28% and 43% in 2015. So far, the few existing models are good, but expensive, although less than the MacBook Air from Apple. However, the goal is to exceed the store (a few, actually), but to reach the mass market, Asus has the first years of their netbook (less than 300 euros). Among the fifty ultrabooks which will be announced at CES, including that of HP, the world leader in the production of folio 13 and a fraction of the price of 1,000 euros. For this phenomenon to curdle it is estimated that the price should go between 600 and 800 euros. But not only live on Ultralight CES. The fair this year has announced major developments in the technology of 3D TVs. After the success of LED devices, which coincided with the transition to digital terrestrial television in many European countries, it has been a difficult customer that did not want to change a flat screen in 3D.The price and the need to purchase special glasses 3D TV has made the project practically unsaleable. At CES this year, the technology has dispensed with the glasses. Toshiba already has a TV like this, but tomorrow Stream TV Networks has announced a technology that converts any 2D image in 3D without glasses. And another company called MasterImage promises something similar. The way to distribute these devices is to go through the removal of glasses and a sharp decline in prices.

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The Stream TV Networks, with widespread skepticism, has the technology to convert 2D images into 3D in real time and without glasses. Thousands of people are waiting patiently to see the latest gem of LG, a very large television, superfine, that is, those that do not fit in a flat or squat. At the same time, less than 50 people attended the presentation of a unique invention. The Stream TV Networks’ technology is so important that, apparently, no one believes it.

Stream TV Networks has introduced a technology that consists of devices and software that converts any 2D image into 3D. It is so simple and clear. And without glasses. According to the company’s CEO, the Indian Mathu Rajan, although its headquarters are in Philadelphia, the importance of the technology is similar to the leap from black and white TV to color. Rajan called it not 3D, but Ultra-D, because the 3D systems “trick your brain” to divide an image into two, one for each eye, the result of the Ultra-D is completely natural. The first television product will be produced mid-year, they said. Devices will be 42 and 55 inches, for which no price has been announced.

But TV is only part of his invention. It also has an image converter from 2D to 3D and vice versa if you wish. Its technology has no limits and no content management software. That is, the same is true for tablets, as seen in a demonstration, to telephones, computers or consoles. It also transforms any content in 3D and Ultra-D.It is the same old game, your favorite movies back to the wall, or digital photo albums that are automatically, thanks to the converter, animated in 3D. Of course, it also converts X-rays in 3D. But do not rub your hands. Buying the converter does not mean it will apply to traditional TV, you must purchase a leader of the Ultra-D, which so far only made them.  ”The importance of our technology,” said Rajan, “is that it does not sacrifice image quality and also allows the same quality through or from any corner of the screen. No effect of blurring, or flashing”. In addition, the system becomes 3D Ultra D for any sporting event in real time, thanks to its technology SeeCube, go for cable or satellite or a Blu-ray. “3D without glasses will change the television industry worldwide,” said Rajan, and so, before a mass of empty chairs, one wondered why the thousands of accredited journalists, at least 50, looked the other way. Time will tell.

If you’ve seen it work, this unknown company carries on accredited businesses.Because it is clear that the future depends on 3D TV, but without glasses, but are necessary, but at a much lower price (Toshiba has presented or weigh or cost much, about 30 euros) will remain an obstacle to their implementation in the home. True 3D teleshopping accounted for 1% of the total in 2010 and 9% in 2011, but still very little.

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The merger will take place at noon on Wednesday to protest against the laws SOUP PIPA and, when taken as a threat to the business community in New York. Media and Public Radio NPR, The Washington Post and The Guardian have created an initiative to help users who want to search the online encyclopedia during the blackout. Through their Twitter account, answering questions of messages with the keyword # altwiki. Given that Wikipedia has 25 million users per day, the most ambitious project to replace. The authoritative portal Oreilly, meanwhile, took his statement of support for Wikipedia to support a solution to piracy to reach the market itself, not government intervention. The distance between these two arguments is that between supporters and opponents SOUP dela law. “‘Piracy’ The term implies that the presence of substantial unauthorized copies of protected content is the result of an attempt to capture a market legal wrongdoing. But history has shown us that this is mainly the result of market failure.” For the expert Dan Gillmor, the objective of these laws is clear: “remove the tools to centralize control the masses and what promised to be the means of communication and open collaboration ever invented,” he wrote in The Guardian. Opponents of the laws and PIPA SOPA have on their side for the Obama administration, which last Friday said that it would reject any laws that threaten the dynamism and innovation on the Internet.

The support of the White House, however, has not yet been demonstrated definitivo.Los legislators of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, where the law has been proposed SOPA and debate during which unleashed the most controversial sections of the law, not a step back in time . “The blackout is just a publicity stunt,” he said yesterday, Republican Lamar Smith. The main sponsor of the legislation announced it resume negotiations for the final in February, despite the fact that last week froze the negotiations to find common ground between supporters and detractors. The American former Sen. Chris Dodd, now leader of one of the most powerful film industry lobby, said in a statement (PDF) that the protests taking place this Wednesday, “is an abuse of power by the freedoms they enjoy these companies in the market today. ” The ‘American Association of Cinema (MPAA, for its acronym in English) argues that’ blackout ‘is “a dangerous and worrying development since the platforms that function as the information will be removing data support the intent to induce the users based on their interests. “Dodd, in defense of freedom of access to information for citizens, protested against turning against the exercise of freedom of expression of dozens of business online.The site of the Association of Internet users in Spain also issued a message against the law of the United States black, the objectives associated with the Spanish law known Sinde. Victor Domingo, the association, told Efe that about 100 sites in Spain have joined the “black out”, including Voolive.net, Gurusblog, Slashdot blog or IE Business School professor and expert Enrique Dans.

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“Imagine a world without Craigslist, Wikipedia, Google …” So begins the message that Craigslist, the classifieds site for short, has posted on its Web site from the United States to protest against piracy laws is discussed in the Senate (PIPA) and the House of Representatives (SOPA) in that country. This is one of the sites that have joined the protest against them. A protest grows. Site Reddit, which initially took the initiative to replace their usual services to you through a message and a request for legal U.S. citizens contact their representatives to ask that impede the progress of this Regulation. After the blackout joined other sites. The most famous is Wikipedia, whose American edition is not available today. Google did not close the browser, but the U.S. site has a link (Please do not censuréis Web) that refers to a page that displays a message asking for a referral to Internet users not to vote on these laws. Figure efe than 10,000 sites of different sizes participating in the protest in one form or another. Pages that have emerged outlining the monitoring of the strike, as www.sopastrike.com. Driving Mozilla, Firefox, even the United States temporarily redirected to a page of information and protest against these laws. The message calls for the open web. BoingBoing, a popular news blog, is also dark, and links to organizations that fight the bills. The most common argument is that laws in innovation internet discussion on the vacuum, limiting freedom of expression.”We want to become criminals,” says the executive of Mozilla. The law initially proposed SOPA block sites that offer protected content, eliminating their links in search engines and the punishment of those who maintain trade relations or advertising with them. The promoter of the bill to address the first point to the criticism that such actions would hurt the U.S. image and domain management. The measure was intended mainly to prevent access to sites hosted abroad.

The critics felt that this would force ISPs to become a police net Wikipedia also accompanies the WordPress.org blogging platform with a black cover, although users can still update your blog, go to the documentation on the web and install screens in protest against the legislation because of “plugins” created for the time. MoveOn.org, Good.is, Twitpic (a service of publishing images on Twitter), dotSUB, Internet Archive: Free Press, and Minecraft Mojang are other names of the protest. Some people have started their protest especially through social networks: “Twitter, join the protest on Twitter Pegaesto tomorrow [this message has been censored by the U.S. government] visit. Americancensorship.org”. Others have called information meetings or protests. ”The future of the technology community in New York is in danger,” said the page would normally arrange meetings between the computer of the city yesterday, dyed black, emergency invited to gather outside the offices of two state senators.

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