Because while a TV show that starts off with slow ratings is still going to hit every possible TV screen until its completely pulled, a movie with slow box office will usually shrink its footprint, meaning the chances of finding a slow-growing movie gem is harder.

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Fast action sports and events are transformed to slow motion right on the LCD screen, letting the user capture once-in-a- lifetime moments with confidence.

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Even those items are hard to find, slow to download, and hard to see on-screen.

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Within the app, you can record your own swing using your device's camera and replay it, including in slow motion and reverse, while drawing lines on the screen to monitor your positions, just like Johnny Miller.

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Only thing is, data stored on that relatively slow disk drive (instead of flash memory) resulted in "sluggish" screen-to-screen transitions.

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To make the text larger than 10-point font requires zooming in on the document and dragging it around with the iRex's stylus, a naggingly slow process given E-Ink's refresh rate of about one second. iRex claims it redraws its screen faster than Kindle, but in Forbes.com's tests it locked up sporadically and often took far longer to refresh than Amazon's less flashy display.

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