Apparently, the AV center is the mystery box on the shelf below the PDP in the picture above which will magically bundle the various signals from your tethered devices such as DVD, set-top box, etc. and then feed 'em up to the TV over 802.11a WiFi.

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Foreign box office, DVD-sales and merchandising can do wonders for a film that grosses poorly in the U.S. Among the films on our list, only The 13th Warrior, an epic 1999 flop starring Antonio Banderas, didn't report a worldwide gross that was higher than its production costs.

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Crack open a set-top box or a DVD player and you'll almost certainly find a MIPS chip.

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We then looked at each movie's estimated budget (not including marketing costs, which are susceptible to accounting chicanery) and box-office, DVD and television earnings to figure out an operating income for each film.

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We then used data gathered for our annual Celebrity 100 list to calculate each star's estimated earnings on each film (including upfront pay and any earnings from the movie's box-office receipts, DVD and TV sales).

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Vudu general manager Edward Lichty joined the company from TiVo just before the box launched and helped shift the strategy, abandoning the box and getting the service embedded into Internet-connected TVs and DVD players.

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TiVo ( TIVO - news - people ) just before the box launched and helped shift the strategy, abandoning the box and getting the service embedded into Internet-connected TVs and DVD players.

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