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Cuban, 43, can afford to travel the world or just hang out with his players on the customized $46 million Boeing 757 he bought for the Mavericks. Instead, he has taken on another business challenge--a daunting one--with HDTV. Of 100 million U.S. households with TVs, only 2 million have high-definition sets, most of them used for playing movies on DVD, according to Cahners In-Stat Group research. Neither Cuban nor DirecTV will say how many of the company's 10.7 million satellite-TV subscribers have the special set-top boxes required to receive the high-definition signal...
Meanwhile, the price of digital TVs and set-top boxes is dropping fast. A 50-in. high-def TV set that cost $8,000 two years ago is now $1,800 and could drop further by Christmas. Prices of the set-top decoders necessary for high-def reception are falling too, to $250 from $750 in 2000. (Samsung, Zenith and Sony are making TVs with built-in high-def tuners.) The Consumer Electronics Association says February shipments of such digital-TV products were up 83% over the same month last year, largely in anticipation of NBC's Olympics broadcast...
...Apex Digital in Ontario, Calif., have sold enough cheap DVD players in North America to steal a 14% share of that market. The firm has machines assembled for a pittance in China and sells them in the U.S. at such bargain stores as Wal-Mart. Now Apex is targeting TVs. It will have 18 models out by June. Not bad for a pair who began by peddling scrap metal to China...
...smaller and less elaborate than the model in the film. For $10,000 to $15,000 you can get a just-the-basics shelter with blastproof Kevlar lining the walls. Higher-end models ($50,000 to $250,000) can include amenities such as mini-bars, fold-down beds, TVs and DVD players. In some homes, that's known as a den. --By Roy B. White and Laura A. Locke...
...SURVEILLANCE In the movie, Jodie Foster monitors the bad guys on a bank of closed-circuit TVs. In real life, the video feeds would likely be channeled to one screen. In the film, the surveillance cameras are easily spotted; usually they are camouflaged...