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...Despite the current gloominess in the electronics market, the ultimate rewards for the winners in these global TV wars could be vast as viewers upgrade their tube sets to flat panels and as broadcasters gradually shift from analog broadcasting to higher-quality digital. Japan has already begun digital broadcasting, and all broadcasts will be digital by mid-2011. In the U.S., every new TV will be required to come with a digital tuner by July 2007, and in Germany, digital broadcasts will commence in time for the 2006 World Cup soccer tournament. During this sea change, Sharp intends...
Pioneers like George Lucas are campaigning for the eradication of analog technology and the introduction of digital production and distribution that will make room for a fully 3-D cinema. Mr. Lucas is already planning on releasing the “Star Wars” trilogy in 3-D, possibly as early...
...colors, it can be easily viewed at arm's length or from any angle. The controls mimic those of the PlayStation home systems, with four input buttons on the right, a directional pad on the left, and two "shoulder" buttons on the top. It also has a neat little analog "stick," like the kind in laptops, which you manipulate with your thumb, allowing for better control in many games. Four tiny speakers provide decent, if somewhat tinny, stereo sound. It weighs almost as much as a mug full of strong coffee, and offers about the same amount of stimulation...
...reach 85 m.p.h., for aerodynamic stability? You got it. Lambo designed the cockpit to be asymmetrical, orienting it toward the driver with touches like perforated leather upholstery on the left side and a smooth finish on the passenger side. The interior is race-car minimalist, with metallic trim and analog dials...
...creating it. “Music is my absolute passion,” he says. His tastes run to the underground, the indie and the experimental. A member of two bands that he describes as “future rock” in style, Xuan specializes in analog synthesizers and electronic music. He’s even carving time out of his premed course load to take a year-long electronic music class. A close friend of Xuan’s, Tim H. Wong ’05, remarks that “the reason Yan is interesting is that...