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If there was any doubt that consumers are beginning to embrace digital television (DTV) in a big way, the first quarter of 2004 erased it. Manufacturer-to-dealer sales of DTV products--integrated sets and monitors displaying active vertical scanning lines of at least 4800 and, in the case of integrated sets, receiving and decoding ATSC terrestrial digital broadcasts--reached new heig

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