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By Staff -- TWICE, 8/4/2008
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Meridian Unveils 10-Megapixel Projector
New York — Meridian, working in association with IC developer Marvell, introduced here Wednesday what it called the first 10-megapixel video projection system for the home theater market.
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In response to: Circuit City To Launch Online Training Tool: to remain nameless: "To Circuit management: you guys will do anything except pay your salespeople decent money to work. What makes you think this program will help employees perform better than pay incentives? Good luck, you need it."
Jay Rudko, Pembroke Pines, Fla., Retail: "This is usually referred to as the 'polishing the rhododendron leaves' syndrome. With falling sales, shrinking margins, minimal store traffic, continuing losses, poor product displays and a clueless sales force, the company is trying a Web-based information channel for its sales associates. More than likely, most of the people who log on will be talking with each other rather than researching products for customers. It's what 19-year olds do when they get access to a computer. As cool as it sounds, it's not going to bring customers back."
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Activity Picks Up As Feb. 17 Gets Closer
More good news surfaced this week on the increasingly urgent mission to get all U.S. residents ready for the day analog TV broadcasting goes dark — Feb. 17, 2009.
Zenith, the LG subsidiary that was the developer of the vestigial sideband demodulation scheme (8-VSB) — a primary component in the digital television broadcast system — said it alone has now manufactured and shipped more than 1 million TV set-top converter boxes and there are a lot more on the way. This comes with just 200 days (make that 199 as this was posted) remaining in the countdown to completion of the transition to all-digital TV broadcasting.
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