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...essentially been on trial at the hearings of the 9/11 commission, you might expect to find bureau employees crowded around the television sets. In the Minneapolis, Minn., field office where I work, a few TVs were on last week, but I saw no one glued to the screen. We were simply too busy. Too busy trying to prevent the next terrorist attack, and the next and the next...
SHARP AQUOS TV Ads in Elle Decor and IN STYLE pitched this pricey line of TVs to women as sleek, sexy and light...
...American-brand revival, as companies like HP, Dell, Motorola and even Zenith (a U.S. brand now owned by a South Korean company) try to grab market share. "It's driving traditional Japanese consumer-electronics companies crazy," says Peter Kastner, chief research officer at the Aberdeen Group. Although flat-panel TVs are produced exclusively in Asia, U.S. companies like Gateway and Dell are developing strong brands that will allow them to go after other product categories dominated by Japanese makers. American tech companies are working behind the scenes: Corning makes glass for the displays, and Texas Instruments has created...
...seeking to buy a new set. Consumer Reports published its first ranking of flat-panel televisions in March, in response to thousands of letters from readers begging for a little guidance, says Gerard Catapano, who supervised the magazine's test. While there were some standouts in each category--conventional TVs, plasma, LCD and rear-projection--there was no clear winner. Each technology has its inherent drawbacks. The best picture-tube and rear-projection televisions, for example, can weigh more than 200 lbs. Plasma sets (named for the pixels of gas in the screen that are turned into plasma...
Flatness may prove even more important than picture quality in getting consumers to trade up. Best Buy's Simonson notes that until now "the form factor of the television has never changed. It's always been a very big product." The slim profile of plasma and LCD TVs is finally attracting the attention of a group largely ignored by consumer-electronics peddlers: women. "What really makes a $3,000 TV sell is that the consumer can do things with this space that they couldn't do before," Milne says. "It's a furniture experience more than a television experience...