| As the most populous city in Southern California, Los | | | | yearly at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las |
| Angeles has a huge number of consumer electronics | | | | Vegas, NV, which is near to Los Angeles, at which |
| stores. With just about 50 Circuit City stores and 18 | | | | many industry pioneers make speeches including |
| Best Buys, two of the largest electronics retailers are | | | | Microsoft's Bill Gates. |
| plentiful indeed. One can also add to that, the over | | | | One interesting characteristic of the consumer |
| 1,000 smaller shops and chain stores and you can see | | | | electronic field is the continuous trend of lower prices. |
| a situation where the populace has many choices as | | | | Industry insiders posit that such a development is |
| they go on the lookout for their next big screen TV. | | | | caused by gains in manufacturing efficiency and more |
| The phrase consumer electronics is associated with | | | | use of automation, combined with many improvements |
| electronic equipment built for everyday use. The | | | | in semiconductors. The popularly observed Moore's |
| products are most often utilized for communications, | | | | Law, says that, for a specific price, electronics industry |
| entertainment and personal productivity. Leading | | | | functionality doubles every 18 months. |
| consumer electronics products include PCs, phones, | | | | Consumer electronics in Los Angeles and elsewhere in |
| audio equipment, televisions, and calculators. Popular | | | | the country, and in the world, continue in a trend of |
| brands of electronics include many huge domestic and | | | | functional combinations, wherein a DVD player and |
| foreign manufacturers, such as Apple, Philips, Samsung, | | | | television become a media center, combining |
| Sanyo, Sony and Toshiba, among others. | | | | characteristics of several electronic items. Consumers |
| The Consumer Electronics Association projects 2007 | | | | face difficult decisions when looking for electronics |
| nationwide consumer electronics purchases at 150 | | | | items. It is starting to be more about a product's style |
| billion dollars. A very large portion of those sales can | | | | and price, as opposed to its specifications and |
| be found in Los Angeles, and other major cites like | | | | performance. |
| New York and Boston. | | | | On the negative side, loads of consumer electronics |
| As already noted, consumer electronics are built | | | | result in e-waste. It is thought that in 2003 the United |
| around the globe, though there is an extremely high | | | | States alone generated over 2.8 million tons of |
| concentration of manufacturing performed in Asia, | | | | electronic waste. No more than 10 percent of that |
| particularly China and Singapore. The most | | | | amount was recycled. |
| cutting-edge consumer electronics are previewed | | | | |