We still have a week to go before Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving in the United States when retailers offer some of their best deals of the shopping season — and Vizio has already announced a one-day price reduction on their 42-inch plasma. The sale at Costco will mark the first time a high-definition-ready set of that size will be sold for less than $1000, which is considered by many analysts to be that magic number where mass adoption will kick off. As the predictions go, once consumers can see the bill for a HDTV starting out with only three digits in it, they will be much more likely to buy a new set to go with that PlayStation 3, or HD DVD add-on for the 360, or HD satellite. The Vizio VP42HDTV is a 42-inch 720p-capable plasma with HDMI, a 10,000:1 max contrast ratio, and an ATSC tuner. It’s great news to see the prices for sets of all sizes and styles (CRT RPTVs, plasmas, LCDs, LCoSes, etc.) coming steadily down, and will spur that magical day when you can go to any relative’s house for the Superbowl and not have to worry about watching on a standard-def set.

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[From jac] I was checking through TreoCentral Discussions and found the link to a review of the Treo 680. “In its current condition, Palm OS is pretty much like a zombie – conjurers from Palm keep on injecting life into the breathless corpse of this officially dead operating system that, however, still shows signs of life regardless of any common sense. Model Palm Treo 680 (codename Lowrider), that we were able to get hold of several days ago is in fact the living embodiment of an entry-level communicator concept. And it’s not a big surprise that it runs on Palm OS, as a morally outdated can’t cost much in any case. Today we are publishing a preview of this communicator, keeping in mind the intention to extend it as soon as we get our hands on an off-the-shelf unit.

The path, picked by Palm is quite simple – come up with a low-end solution featuring not an impressive spec sheet, but real capabilities. «We are offering a product at a price unseen before», – were the company representatives’ words at a press-conference, where the main topics were ease of use, variety of available trims and Google. Another point of interest is that the real specifications of the Treo 680 were not unleashed back then (they eventually got released on the company’s page shortly after the conference).

At one time with the announcement of Palm Treo 680, Palm reported about its new PR agency – from that point onwards, Young and Rubicam (one of the leading agencies, having businesses in 81 countries) will be running all Palm’s advertising activities. Without a hint of hesitation, the new partner has rushed for promoting Palm Treo 680. The new slogan is «Not just a cell phone. A Treo». ”

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