As we currently trust financial institutions to look after our money, the financial industry has an opportunity to look after the more intangible (but no less valuable) digital assets.

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Rounding out the bunch are the 46-inch KDL-46V2500 and 40-inch KDL-40V2500, which also give you 1, 920 x 1, 080 pixels, but no digital tuner, one less HDMI input, and no option for interchangeable, multi-colored bezels as with their XBR2 counterparts.

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We always figured that LCDs and plasmas used less power than CRTs, but apparently digital HDTVs actually suck up more power than analog TVs (see the chart below), and to make matters worse, we're buying bigger and bigger television sets than we used to.

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Enterprise software from firms such as SAP, Oracle and Baan has factories and accounting departments running smoothly, more or less, but marketing is still in a digital dark age.

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Ultraviolet's morass of logins and passwords hasn't gotten any less complicated for digital copies from different studios yet, but in this case linking your account should be relatively simple.

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But even less-discerning photography buffs may find prints made from less-costly digital cameras unacceptably fuzzy.

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Sure, digital tuning and presets make this less useful than it might have been a few years ago, but we like the idea of being able to scroll and randomly find a station we might like, without having to wait for a station break to find out where we are.

ENGADGET: Sonus 1XT DAB radio with voice navigation