Consumer electronics include electronic equipment intended for everyday use. Consumer electronics are most often used in entertainment, communications and office productivity. Some products classed as consumer electronics include personal computers, telephones, audio equipment, digital cmaeras, televisions, calculators, and playback and recording of video media such as DVD or VHS. Popular brands of consumer electronics include a wide range of European, American, Korean and Japanese based companies including Philips, Apple, Sony, Nikon, Toshiba, Samsung, LG and others.

The CEA (Consumer Electronics Association) estimates 2007 Consumer Electronics sales at 150 billion dollars. CEA: Industry Statistics

Consumer electronics are manufactured throughout the world, although there is a particularly high concentration of manufacturing activity in the Far East, in particular China and Singapore, amongst other countries. [citation needed] The latest consumer electronics are previewed yearly at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, at which many industry pioneers speak including Bill Gates from Microsoft.

One overriding characteristic of all consumer electronic products is the trend of ever-falling prices. This is driven by gains in manufacturing efficiency and automation, coupled with improvements in semiconductor design. Semiconductor components benefit from Moore's Law, an observed principle which states that, for a given price, semiconductor functionality doubles every 18 months.

While consumer electronics continues in its trend of convergence; ie. DVD-Player and Free-View Box becomes a 'Media Centre' combining elements of many consumer electronic items. The consumer faces different decisions when purchasing their items. The variables becoming more about "Style & Price" rather than "Specification & Performance". This convergence of technologies promises a shrinking of choice of retailer to the consumer and the rise of Manufacturer status within the home.

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After this process, your image is hosted on their server. Typically this means it is available on the web (to the public). You may also be allowed to make inline links to the hosted image, to embed it on other websites e.g. Linking with HTML code Linking with BBcode A clickable thumbnail that is linked to the full image

Usually, the image host will put restrictions on the maximum image size allowed, or the maximum space or bandwidth allowed per user. Due to bandwidth costs, free services usually offer relatively modest size limits per image when compared to paid services, but allow users hotlinking their images. Individuals needing to host large images should consider purchasing image hosting services or purchasing webhosting services, so that they may operate their own website.

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Image hosts also allow tools such as the ability to create photoblogs/galleries with your images, or add them to a slideshow for easier viewing. Some offer more advanced tools such as the ability for an individual to add notes to an image they uploaded, transloaders, or browser sidebars. Other hosts have introduced novel features, such as the ability to automatically resize images down to a user-selected size.

Cost

Many image hosts are free. Of the free image hosts, the vast majority are supported by advertisement, mostly on their top pages, thumbnail pages, or 'not found' pages. Showing advertisements to users has enabled image size and bandwidth limits to increase. Some free hosts have optional paid image hosting functions, while other hosts offer only paid services. Features and storage available are generally better for paid services, while cost is still much less than the cost of purchasing webhosting to operate a website. Paid services allow you to have password protected photo albums, customizable skins, and customized subdomains. There are many other paid services available that offer different packages of features, options, and costs.

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