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Circuit City is not going down without a fight. Just a day after filing chapter 11 bankruptcy, Bank of America comes to the rescue. To the tune of $1.1 billion. Yowza.Not sure if that's even going to be enough - the company is $2.3 billion in...

Sad and depressing, but it needs to be discussed. Circuit City customers need to understand how the company is handling their returns during this transitional period — as they transition from company to nothingness.We reported last week that...

Recent doings at Circuit City may be of interest in the wake of the mass firings reported here and elsewhere. The story became a Primedia trifecta--covered here, on the Stereophile site, and on the Ultimate AV site--in addition to wide coverage elsewhere including a stern editorial in the New York Times.

This certainly has been a busy couple of weeks for Circuit City, the #2 retail outlet for consumer electronics in the U.S. No less than three separate events are bound to have an major impact on the company.

Circuit City is getting lean and mean. Cutting the fat, drastically, so to speak. In perhaps a last ditch effort to stay afloat, the second biggest consumer electronics brick-and-mortar retailer is closing at least 150 stores.  That's huge -...

Blockbuster wants in on the electronics business. First the struggling movie rentals company wants to sell a branded set-top box for downloading movies. Now it wants to buy an entire consumer electronics retail chain. Blockbuster made a buyout...

Last week, <A HREF="http://www.cirrus.com">Cirrus Logic</A> announced an agreement that will make possible broad deployment of THX-grade home-theater systems. In a press release, the company says it has licensed THX home-theater DSP (digital signal processing) algorithms from Lucasfilm for upcoming audio products. "Cirrus Logic thus becomes the first semiconductor manufacturer to combine THX post-processing capabilities with economical, embedded certified software for all popular audio DVD decoding standards. For leading-brand mass-market suppliers, this solution will simplify designs, reduce costs, and lower the price point for implementing THX audio technology into A/V hi-fi receiver amplifiers that support playback of DVD movies."