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...prices are headed, wander over to the PC side of your neighborhood electronics store and check out the flat computer monitors. You'll probably find that small LCD TVs are marked up 50% or more, compared with monitors of the same size. LCD TVs often have brighter screens and niftier designs that add to the cost of making them, but the real reason the TVs are more expensive is low volume. With fewer TV sets sold, retailers often tack on higher margins. Prices will also be brought down by competition between LCD and plasma screens. At very large sizes, plasma...
...prices are headed, wander over to the PC side of your neighborhood electronics store and check out the flat computer monitors. You'll probably find that small LCD TVs are marked up 50% or more, compared with monitors of the same size. LCD TVs often have brighter screens and niftier designs that add to the cost of making them, but the real reason the TVs are more expensive is low volume. With fewer TV sets sold, retailers often tack on higher margins. Prices will also be brought down by competition between LCD and plasma screens. At very large sizes, plasma...
...Indeed, for all the praise Stroman has received for the mirror effect that mimics the overhead shot of the swastika dancers in the movie, I haven?t heard a peep about the same device that director Mark Bramble uses to create an even niftier Busby Berkeley effect in "42nd Street." This show, a revival of Gower Champion?s 1980 reworking of the 1933 movie, is hardly one that I was clamoring to see back on Broadway. Yet it packs in so much precision tap-dancing, lavishly appointed production numbers, talented performers and delightful Harry Warren-Al Dubin songs (including three...
Eavesdropping may not be nice, but it gets niftier all the time. From gleaming electronics factories and grubby back-street workshops has come an ever-subtler array of "surveillance instruments" to penetrate the individual's privacy. The devices are now so easy to plant and so hard to detect that their likely victims-lovers or diplomats, criminals or key executives-can seldom be wholly sure any more that confidential conversations are not being overheard or recorded. Private eyes have become private ears, and they have never been more prosperous. They snoop with "bugs" hidden in hatbands or ballpoint pens...