And the full-year projection he made at the time, 43-to-45 cents, also down from 63 cents for the year ended January 31.

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Comparing the grosses against those of other, similar pictures in the same time-span, the studio computers whirr all weekend to produce the best possible projection, come Monday morning, of the film's ultimate potential.

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Why seek to replicate back-projection, for instance, when those compelled to use it at the time would have been thrilled to find something more realistic?

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It's time for someone over at IDC to pop the champagne, as its 2007 projection about the end of rear-projection TVs turned out to be only a year off, now that the last company still making them has announced it's getting out of the game.

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