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TV makers try new tricks to restore market’s prices

By Hiawatha Bray

 |  Globe Staff  

  June 06, 2012

A radical new TV set, designed to end the eternal battle for the remote control, was shown in Boston on Tuesday. The flat-panel television, presented at SID Display Week, an industry trade show for electronic screen makers at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, allows two people wearing special glasses to watch different programs on the same screen. It’s an eye-catching innovation for an industry that badly needs one. Makers of flat TV panels are being hammered by slow sales.

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