In some developed countries, put the phones, personal computers, home office equipment and so on.
Different development levels countries have different connotation of consumer electronics. Even in the same country, different development stages have different connotations.
In development countries, consumer electronics refers to individual or household broadcasting, television relevant audio and video products, including: TV, DVD machines (VCD, SVCD, DVD), recorders, radios, cassette, combination audios, phonographs, CD players (CD) etc. While in some developed countries, phones, PCs, family office equipments, home electronic health equipments, in-car electronic products are also grouped as consumer electronics. With the development of technology, new products and new applications have emerged, so digital cameras, phones, PDA etc. have also become emerging consumer electronics.
From late nineteen nineties, information appliances combining three fields--computing, information and communication, began to enter family lives. Having audio-visual, information processing, bidirectional network communication functions, information appliances range from embedded processors, related support hardware (eg display card, storage medium, IC card or credit read equipment), embedded operating systemas and application layer package composition. Generally speaking, they include all information appliances products which are able to interact with network systems, such as PC, STB, HPC, DVD, super VCD, wireless data communication equipments, video games equipments, WEBTV etc.
At present, audio, video and communication equipments are major components of information appliances. In a long run, refrigerators, microwave ovens will also be developed into information appliances and become intelligent ones. |
