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Lower pricing is only one factor driving consumers toward flat TVs. More and more television programming is offered in high-definition, or HDTV, format, which should boost LCD TV sales. (Traditional TVs can show HDTV programming, but sometimes not as crisply as LCD TVs, which are almost all HDTV ready in larger sizes.) In the not-too-distant future, flat TVs will be hooked up to PCs, which will record movies on a hard-disc drive. And then there's the get-the-neighbors-talking factor. Ritch Wheeler, 33, a sales manager for DaimlerChrysler from Denton, Texas, recently bought...
...lead. Toshiba team leader Hisashi Yamada, a key player in the first DVD war, seems to delight in playing the role of the spoiler yet again in the face of what many at Toshiba perceive as Sony's arrogance. "The way of Sony is very simple," says Yamada. "'Our format is best,' they say. 'You should adopt it,' they say. Only that. No compromise." But, he adds with a mischievous grin, "we did not think Sony's is the right technology at the right time. We think ours is better...
Avedon had started his career in the merchant marine, taking identity card shots. Years later, the bare format of an ID became an inspiration for his mature portrait style, one of the great aesthetic insights of the 20th century. It consisted of high-focus inspection of unsmiling faces against an arctic-white background. Under that light, the body capitulates. Every line and facial sag announces itself. He used that approach to photograph everyone from Abbie Hoffman to Rose Kennedy. But these pictures were not cruel. They were fearless, lucid and unsentimental. As a fashion photographer, Avedon took human vanity...
...Panasonic, Sony, Samsung and others are developing the Blu-Ray format. Toshiba and NEC are working on the competing...
...SERVICES I tried MOVIELINK movielink.com) which is industry backed, CINEMANOW cinemanow.com and STARZ! TICKET ON REAL MOVIES (movies.real com) which debuted in June. Each service works a bit differently, but the goal is the same: to deliver major studio releases to your PC in a secure format that's "near DVD" quality. Movielink and CinemaNow charge from $1 to $5 for each 24-hour rental. Starz! charges $12.95 a month for unlimited downloads, but its library is smaller (150 selected titles vs. Movielink's 900 at any one time...