Word: lcd
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...prices, JetBlue hopes to attract potential customers with its fleet of brand-new 100-seat Embraer 190 jets. Along with the traditional leather seats, travelers on the 70-minute Boston-New York flight can enjoy such amenities as 36 channels of free DIRECTV programming on 6.8” LCD monitors and more than 100 channels of XM Satellite Radio. While many students plan on taking advantage of the JetBlue promotion, not all potential travelers are impressed. “I am happy that it is there as another option,” said Divia D. Melwani...
...couple of years ago, Sony came out with the stunning Cyber-shot T1, with 2.5-in. LCD screen and a 3X optical zoom buried inside a very slight case. The new N1 is a noble successor...
...grown used to touch screens on everything from PDAs to the ticket kiosks at the movie theater. Why not one for the camera? The key is screen size: the N1's roomy 3-in. LCD makes touching, even without a stylus, easy. The interface is well designed. While shooting, you can control flash, shooting mode, file size and more with a tap, and then enter a menu for more options. Immediately after powering it up and shooting a few pictures, I found myself tapping this way and that, like I was the author of the user's manual or something...
...limping behemoths like Sony have discovered, staying ahead in electronics is a relentless challenge. A host of new technologies could disrupt LCD's emergence just as easily as LCD has begun to supplant cathode-ray tubes. Even against existing technologies, Sharp faces a formidable battle. Junzo Masuda, director of iSuppli, a market-research firm in Kyoto, says the real test is how Sharp's big-screen TVs ultimately fare against plasma display panels (PDPs), the dominant type of large-screen, flat-panel displays. Sharp may have better technology, but Masuda wonders whether the company can reduce costs enough to defeat...
However the contest between PDP and LCD plays out, Machida and his team are--for now--relishing their moment in the sun. Hisakazu Torii, a director of research at DisplaySearch, a consultancy in Tokyo, says Sharp's foresight in LCDs has completely transformed the TV business and Sharp's position in the corporate landscape. "Sharp can sell its TVs for $200 to $300 more than Sony, which is a total reversal of the old situation," he says. Sharp's international-business director, Toshishige Hamano, agrees, saying, "In the long history of the electronics market, all companies have their moment...