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...skeins of hundreds of electrical wires, some of them powering a single home that has run a line into the tangle. The streets are also clogged with schools of motor scooters, with most of the riders free of helmets but laden with comically massive loads--a quartet of big-screen TV sets, exquisitely balanced piles of lumber, pyramids of water bottles...
...that won't be easy. Sony faces relentless competition in its core consumer electronics business. In the TV category, Sony is just now beginning to break even, partly because it was so late to switch to production of flat-screen TVs. In typical Sony fashion, the engineers weren't convinced that existing LCD technology was up to Sony standards and wasn't worth investing in. Wrong. Sony was forced initially to buy flat panels from rivals like Sharp. In digital cameras, though, Sony has been far more successful...
...Cambridge stores this morning, boasting a 60-GB hard-drive in its premium version and commanding a top price of $599. The $249 Nintendo Wii will follow on Sunday morning, bringing with it a revolutionary remote control-sized game controller whose three-axis motion sensor will allow on-screen action to respond directly to the movements of a player’s hand. “We’re going to go out to Best Buy...eight hours or so before it opens—about midnight,” said Kevin P. Bartley...
...plenty of fun to watch, but it makes you wonder whether real-world cops could get away with half the behavior of their big-screen counterparts. And as a new case before the U.S. Supreme Court suggests, the answer is surprisingly murky...
...film “Planet of the Apes,” in which Charlton Heston discovers the fallen remains of the Statue of Liberty.Parodoxically, not all games need to become “cinematic” in order for their approach to music to approximate that of big-screen undertakings. In the film world, soundtracks run in both directions, from hit-packed rosters of foreground music—think “Bad Boys II”—to the painstaking counterpoint of Yo La Tengo’s score for recent indie showpiece...