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Will IMAX be able to pull couch potatoes away from their plasma TVs? Polar Express's director, Robert Zemeckis, thinks so. "The one thing that IMAX delivers," he says, "you can't get in your home-theater system: this great big, beautiful image." Whether IMAX is the answer to Hollywood's troubles, though, may yet prove to be as ethereal as those magical 3-D snowflakes...
...move overseas is less of an invasion than an escape. China's strongest companies produce relatively low-tech consumer products like TVs, cell phones and computers?businesses in which the mainland market is now so competitive that it's increasingly tough to turn a healthy profit. Since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, tariffs have plunged and foreign rivals have swarmed the country, forcing domestic firms to cut their prices. Although China's economy is still booming, prices for consumer goods actually fell 1% through October this year. Lenovo, which has been under threat domestically from Dell...
...While guys are buying flatscreen TVs, women are buying boots,” Hampshire said, citing the fur-lined Ugg boots, which go for around $200 a pair, as particularly popular sellers. “Women are fabulous. They’re driving everything...
...Sears. But in the wake of last week's $11 billion megamerger with floundering discounter Kmart, the Sears Grand could be the foundation of an extreme and long-overdue makeover. By melding the Sears savvy in selling so-called hard goods like dishwashers, lawn mowers and flat-panel TVs with Kmart's upmarket "soft" brands like Martha Stewart Everyday, Jaclyn Smith and Joe Boxer, the sales pitch goes, the two perennial retail losers just might create a winning formula. On the other hand, by combining two badly managed retail dinosaurs into one, wags say, the companies may simply save themselves...
...REAR-PROJECTION LCD Three separate LCD chips?red, green and blue?are aimed at a mirror that projects them onto the screen, like regular TV tubes. PRO: Handles all the extra lines of HDTV. CON: Not as thin as flat-panel LCD or plasma TVs. Black areas of the screen look gray. HOT BRAND: Sony...