When Warner Bros. made Casablanca in 1942 the studio had no idea that television play and later video rentals would produce vast revenue streams running for decades.
Environmental toxins may play a role, watching too much television may play a role, and excessive stimulation may play a role.
For example, a Bravia flatscreen television might play a movie from one of the company's studios as customers walk by.
Allard hopes people will eventually watch, pause and rewind television, play videogames, purchase music and movies--even talk on a videophone--using Microsoft's software.
Dad turns on the television to play back a pre-recorded game.
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His doctors (along with the psychiatric nurses and the social workers who led the daily therapy groups) had encouraged him to uncurl himself from the fetal position and try, at least try, to watch television or play a board game with the other patients, but this had mostly proved too great a challenge.
You might think it would be easy to just play television audio on the radio.
Television and movies play to emotion (as do computer twitch games, which drag down kids' SAT scores).
In October, LG Chem workers told a local television reporter they play games and watch movies because the factory has yet to produce a single battery for consumer use.
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So of course to a certain extent, you have to play to television rules.
Its most visible weakness is that only one national television channel gives it fair play.
For example, he once saw Bill Clinton play golf on television and suspected that the president was lying about his handicap.
The venture's aim is to allow the cable companies to offer their customers a "quadruple play" of television, telephones, Internet access and wireless phones.
Billy Anderson, whose 35-year-old son, Jason, of Midfield, Texas, died in the blast, recalled the trauma of watching the disaster play out on television.
Then, more recently, television slowed the pace of play by beaming us weekly images of the world's best players approaching each shot like neurosurgeons contemplating a craniotomy.
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Falling in line with many economists and many who play economists on television myself included these investors overwhelming said they were optimistic about their local real estate market in 2013.
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Still, despite having the Nexus Q and the Ouya as the new kids on the Android TV block, and perhaps as distractions, Google TV stills seems to be the company's best play for the television.
The Tigers, owned by Forbes 400 members Mike and Marian Ilitch, play in the 11th-largest television market.
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The battles are relayed as breaking news on television screens and messengers' words in the play are at times voiced by newsreaders.
But I did get to know a bit about the characters of the Starz television show and some of the actors who play them.
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Less than two months from today, eighteen-year-old men will sit behind tables across the country and sign letters on national television designating where they will attend college and play football.
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In the hotel where I was staying in Cardiff, some of those supporters were drowning their sorrows before casting envious glances at the television to take in Ireland's World Cup play-off against France.
But the television deal also requires Cal to do something unprecedented: play a Friday night home game every other year.
This would allow Slim to sell triple-play packages: bundling phone, Internet and television, something that he has sought for years in Mexico.
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The format helped the PGA Tour boost its television revenue and also gave top players more time to play abroad and collect appearance fees.
Nearly 200, 000 DirecTV subscribers almost didn't get to watch their beloved New England Patriots play the Super Bowl after DirecTV and Sunbeam Television, media mogul Edmund Ansin's broadcasting company, squabbled over carriage fees.
The question over the next four years is not whether the U.S. will survive the fiscal cliff or go the way of Greece, it is whether Democrats and Republicans will play their role of Hatfields and McCoys for television cameras, or go together up the hill and through the valley to get this country moving.
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Cable operators want to be able to offer the "quadruple play" of communication bundles--Internet, television, voice-over-IP and wireless telephony.
Stop playing so many video games, watching so much television, and sitting around on Facebook and go outside and play.
The decision is made by a group primarily comprised of men whose playing days ended before color television, in a room far removed from the field of play.
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