In one of the most powerful scenes from the show Mad Men, Don Draper stands in a darkened boardroom, a single shaft of light beaming onto a screen as he delivers the pitch of a lifetime to executives from Kodak.

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Further, it has Auto HDR and D-Range Optimizer, bracket shooting (Exposure, DRO or White Balance) and Auto HDR shooting modes, and there's a Digital Level Gauge that indicates camera pitch and camera roll on the LCD screen for straight, even landscape and architectural shots.

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Peter Konig, who also designs characters for video games, sat in a pitch-dark room, before a glowing screen.

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"Right now the future is looking kind of cloudy, " said a sales representative at a San Francisco Bay Area Circuit City when asked about the HD DVD format on President's Day, despite a pitch for the format blaring from a big-screen television on the other side of the store.

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"Right now the future is looking kind of cloudy, " said a sales representative at a San Francisco Bay Area Circuit City (nyse: CC - news - people ) when asked about the HD DVD format on President's Day, despite a pitch for the format blaring from a big-screen television on the other side of the store.

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Kane couldn't help but notice the movie's pitch-perfect encapsulation of Beatlemania -- and the Beatles' discomfort at watching themselves on screen.

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Hornby is well known for his books Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and About A Boy, which have all made it to the big screen.

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