MTV's Asian revenues doubled and its audience grew five-fold, while Channel V's business was flat.

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Its built-in sensors help PLAYBAR automatically adjust EQ and channel orientation so it can lie flat on the TV stand or rotate for low profile wall-mounting above or below the TV.

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First up is Sky TV, which, with or without 15, 000 or so flat screens from LG, is officially launching its Sky 3D channel around the Man.

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With a tap on the Junaio icon, I open the Forbes channel, and in an instant, the previously flat and lifeless portrait of Mark Zuckerberg on the cover springs out of the page at me with a great big set of gleaming white choppers, a suitcase full of freshly printed friends, and a free farm.

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When producing a show for a cable or network channel, Hurwitz confessed that you have to make "flat" programming -- stuff that'll satisfy a huge, huge demographic.

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The Soloist utilizes SurfaceSound flat panel speaker technology, and packs a subtle 10 watt-per-channel Tripath amplifier into a thin, black housing.

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