Lining the walls are examples of consumer-electronics products, beginning with the earliest photography technologies from the 1830's and ending at the high-definition television possibilities for the next century.

The packaging for small consumer-electronics products can be downright dangerous.

Despite their success in memory chips, and in consumer-electronics products, the South Korean companies are not that technically advanced.

THE DVD player is the fastest-growing consumer-electronics product in history, and the pace is not slowing down.

In the future, they will be vital for advanced consumer-electronics products as well.

Even more unusual for a consumer-electronics product, it remained in production until 2002 essentially unchanged, with only one internal improvement, a reworked circuit board that used SMD components.

How on earth did Circuit City Stores, the nation's largest retailer of televisions, stereos and other consumer-electronics products, manage to make so many people in the entertainment industry so angry so quickly?

So prices are expected to drop rapidly, just as they do for most other consumer-electronics products.

But Mr. Drexler was sanguine about the guide's overall viability as an advertising medium, especially for consumer-electronics products, which he called "relevant to the electronic media they serve."