To find out why so many have tried and failed to deliver my TV nirvana, I got up off the couch and hit the road to talk to technology wizards and top industry executives.
为了弄明白为什么这么多人尝试实现我的电视天堂梦想而都失败了，我从床上爬起来，动身去和那些技术高手和行业高层经理人交谈。
After a decade of chaos, has the record industry finally hit upon the right new business model?
经过十年混乱之后，唱片行业能否在新模式下得以重生？
The slew of touchscreen phones that have hit the shops have helped the smartphone market outperform the rest of the mobile phone industry, where sales have been in decline.
大量在市场畅销的触屏手机帮助智能手机市场的表现压过其他手机产业，后者的销售额正在下降。
It would also take at least six months before the first "Windokia" phones hit the shelves-a long time in a fast-moving industry.
首款“Windokia”手机上架销售也需至少半年——这对一个瞬息万变的产业而言，耗时太长。
In Australia, falling wool prices in the 1990s and crippling droughts hit the industry hard.
在澳大利亚，90年代羊毛价格的持续下降和严重的旱灾极大地冲击了这个产业。
Bill Watkins, the CEO of Bridgelux, which makes LED lights, says his industry, which posted $880 million in revenue in 2010, is on track to hit $3 billion this year.
生产LED灯具的普瑞光电股份有限公司的CEO比尔•沃特金斯表示，2010年，LED灯具行业的收入达到8.8亿美元，并有望在今年达到30亿美元。
He knows he has limited time before the rest of the movie-distribution industry realizes what has hit it. "We had DVD by mail mostly to ourselves for five years before Blockbuster attacked," he says.
他知道，他面前的时间有限，在其他的发行业明白是什么打击了它之前，“在百视发出攻击之前的五年，几乎只有我们有影碟邮寄，”他说。
The retail industry has been hard-hit in recent months by a slow-down in consumer spending, partly because so many people have lost their jobs.
零售行业在最近几个月由于消费者消费数额减少而遭受沉重打击，这在一定程度上是因为有不少人丢掉了他们的工作。
If disturbances hit Algeria and threaten its oil industry too, the buffer of spare capacity would fall below where it stood in 2008.
如果动乱蔓延至阿尔及利亚且威胁到它的石油工业，用以缓冲的闲置产能可能跌至2008年的水平。
Whether the financial industry would have hit the brakes if it had had digital dashboards showing Banks' overall exposures in real time is a moot point.
大家争论的焦点是，是否在实际操作中有了数字化仪表盘显示银行总体风险，就能让金融行业及时刹车。
As elsewhere in Europe and the United States, the French car industry has been hard hit by the crisis, and part of Mr. Sarkozy's stimulus plan aims to shore up the automobile sector.
就像欧洲其他地方和美国一样，法国的汽车工业也受到这次危机的重创。萨科齐的刺激计划的一部分将用来提振法国的汽车行业。
As the economic crisis hit in late 2008, some said the same about the industry itself.
在2008年底经济危机爆发之时，一些人评论说电玩游戏业本身也有这一特点。
Of course Serbia's conflict with Kosovo is not the only reason for the plight of the latter's fledgling wine industry: the financial crisis has hit demand.
当然，塞尔维亚和科索沃的冲突不是造成后者酿酒业陷入困境的唯一原因：金融危机也冲击了大众对葡萄酒的需求。
Falling sales in the music industry may seem discouraging, but if you jump into the potential of online business and hit on the right act, you could still do pretty well for yourself.
音乐销售额似乎很令人沮丧，但如果你进入网络音乐行，偶然发现合适的机会，你仍然可以为自己做得很好。
To entice consumers to buy more — and more often — McDonald's under Skinner has pursued what the fast-food industry calls "platforms" rather than one-hit wonders.
为了刺激顾客的消费额度，提高他们消费频率，斯金纳带领麦当劳致力于建立快餐行业所谓的“平台”，而不是昙花一现的产品。
Even the hard-hit motor vehicle and parts industry experienced a rise of 1.2% in output compared with April.
就连遭受重创的机动车及零部件行业的产量跟四月相比也增长1.2%。
But the industry has suffered not just from the strength of the Aussie dollar but also a sharp loss of visitors from tsunami-hit Japan and flooding that hit large swathes of Queensland.
但旅游行业遭到多重打击，不仅澳元升值，而且海啸发生后日本游客数量大幅下降，昆士兰州大片地区也遭遇了洪涝灾害。
Officials in the tourism industry forecast a 10 percent increase in tourist arrivals, crucial for the crisis-hit country where tourism accounts for one in five jobs and 16 percent of GDP.
旅游业的官员预计，入境旅客人数增加10%，对这个受危机重创的国家来说是及其重要的，因为旅游业为这个国家提供了五分之一的工作，占GDP的16%。
The latest bill passing through Congress aims to hit the industry for the cost of bail-outs, for example.
例如，国会最近通过了一项法案，这项法案旨在震慑那些分发大额优先股给股东作为红利的企业。
The more that an industry depended on consumers' access to credit, the harder it has been hit.
行业越是依赖消费者信贷，危机中受到的打击越大。
The global travel downturn has hit the hospitality industry across the Middle East, with hotel revenues and occupancy witnessing steep declines as holidaymakers cut back.
整个中东地区的酒店业都受到了全球旅游业衰退的冲击，旅行者的出行预算减少了，酒店收入和入住率也遭遇了大滑坡。
Captains of the automotive industry, hit by the credit crunch, are busily putting their case to the prime minister.
汽车业巨头们由于受到信贷紧缩的打击，最近一直在向首相诉苦。
Industry has been hit hard by the contraction in world trade and sharply lower prices for the country’s main exports, steel products and chemicals (in particular fertiliser).
由于国际贸易收缩以及乌克兰出口的主要产品价格大幅下滑 —钢铁产品和化工产品（尤其是化肥），乌克兰国内各产业遭受重创。
Most legacy airlines are still seeking to find their equilibrium in turbulence that has hit the troubled aviation industry.
多数传统航空公司仍然希望在冲击航空业的动荡中自保。
The global pulp industry has been hit hard of late, with international prices down by 40% since the start of the financial crisis.
全球纸浆业近来受到重创，从金融危机开始，国际纸浆价格下滑了40%。
Cathay, like most of its rivals around the world, is struggling to cope with one of the worst downturns to hit the airline industry.
与全球多数竞争对手一样，国泰正竭力应对航空业最严重的低迷之一。
Cathay, like most of its rivals around the world, is struggling to cope with one of the worst downturns to hit the airline industry.
与全球多数竞争对手一样，国泰正竭力应对航空业最严重的低迷之一。
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