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Concealed Screens

y previous column dealt with the emergence of larger, more affordable bigscreen displays in recent years. A flat-panel TV larger than 80 inches used to be a luxury purchase, but today they are commonplace. For example, just last week I saw someone wheeling around an 83-inch LG OLED TV on a cart…at Costco! You can now also buy a 98-inch Samsung or a 100-inch Sony LCD TV at Best Buy. For someone who sold one of the first plasma displays—a 60-inch model from Zenith—for just under $18,000, all I can say is, “We’ve come a long way,

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