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When Sony ends production at its Ichinomiya plant sometime during the next five months, the company will be closing the book on a symbol of its golden age. For 40 years, the assembly lines at Ichinomiya, located southwest of Tokyo, have churned out products like Trinitron TVs that have helped make the Sony brand synonymous with quality and innovation in the minds of consumers worldwide. (See pictures of the history of Japan's interaction with the world...
...also need to time the discounts correctly. The liquidation firms are running against the clock. They can't drop the discounts forever, and the longer the sale lasts, the more expenses it has to pay. How long will they let the $1,300 plasma TVs sit at 10% off? They won't tell the customer, of course. The Great American Group wants you to buy, now, before it's forced to move the discount down to 20%. The customer also has to make some bets. For example, Erickson, the Great American CFO, worked on the liquidation for the Montgomery Ward...
...required to stop broadcasting analog TV signals and transmit only digital ones. Most people won't be affected: you can pick up digital TV using a regular old antenna--you just need to make sure your TV has a digital tuner in it, which all new and newish TVs have. After March 1, 2007, manufacturers were pretty much required to put a digital tuner in every TV they made. If you have cable or satellite TV, you can stop reading now. (See the 50 best inventions...
...With the island's identity shifting so dramatically, it can be hard to know if you're getting the "real" Majorca. Even the agriturismos - farmhouses converted to rustic hotels in the 1980s - increasingly style themselves as "rural retreats," complete with spas, plasma TVs and low-fat exfoliants...
...time when American consumers have turned suddenly frugal, they're more likely to save any extra cash they get than spend it. This may be the right thing for most people to do, but it won't stimulate the economy. Meanwhile, if consumers do spend the money on TVs and cars and such, much of the impact will leak out overseas to pay for imports...