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...mass-market LCD panels used in smaller, cheaper TVs and in laptops. Rather than engage them in a murderous price war, Sharp concentrates almost exclusively on ever larger TVs or on small, high-quality panels found in cell phones, car navigation systems and handheld game players like Sony's PSP and Nintendo's DS. That tactic has enabled Sharp to withstand the margin pressure that's ravaging its rivals. Sharp's small-panel market, says Lehman Bros. analyst Yuki Sugi, is particularly lucrative, since its clients tend to place long-term orders for highly specialized, high-margin goods. Similarly, Sharp...
...gizmo guys want most is the PSP, a Sony update of Nintendo's classic Game...
...overwhelming hold on the $25 billion global video-game market: 68% at last count, to Microsoft's 17%; Nintendo has 15%, according to DFC Intelligence, a market-research firm. (See box, following page.) Microsoft doesn't come to the table with a handheld device like Sony's PSP or the Nintendo DS. It doesn't have the in-house multimedia expertise Sony has, or Nintendo's big-time kids' franchises like Mario and Pokémon. All three companies will be showing off their demos at this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo...
...market LCD panels used in smaller, cheaper TVs and in laptops. Rather than engage them in a murderous price war, Sharp concentrates almost exclusively on ever-larger TVs or on small, high-quality panels found in cell phones, car navigation systems, and hand-held game players like Sony's PSP and Nintendo's DS. This strategy has enabled Sharp to withstand the margin pressure that's ravaging its rivals. Sharp's small-panel market, says Lehman Bros. analyst Yuki Sugi, is particularly lucrative, as its clients tend to place long-term orders for highly specialized, high-margin goods. Similarly...
...Park (Comedy Central, Wednesdays, 10 P.M. E.T.) It's hard to say that a cartoon that has featured talking fecal matter has "matured." But South Park has, after nearly eight years, grown into TV's sharpest topical satire. In a recent episode, a character becomes hooked on the Sony PSP, gets in an accident and hovers between life and death, only to find that the PSP was created by God as a weapon against Satan. Any cartoon that can successfully lampoon the right-to-die issue, an overhyped gadget and our apocalyptic obsessions at once is, like that PSP, heaven...