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Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, reports that unit sales for professional flat panel televisions and business displays in North America were up by 4% in December over November’s level. Their Professional Flat Panel Display Sell-Through Tracking Service also shows that increasing average street prices rose 1%, resulting in a 5% increase in revenues.

The Extreme Group, founders of The Extreme Sports Channel, is pleased to announce the launch of Extreme Mayhem, the ingenious, off-the-wall biz limbering up to deliver meaningful growth to the paintball industry in the UK & Europe.

Killer Guides announces the release of the World of Warcraft Alliance Guide. The online strategy guide publisher adds the leveling guide for the Alliance faction to its extensive series of World of Warcraft strategy guides. Available at only $29.99, the guide can be purchased and downloaded at their online store, www.killerguides.com

Advanced Mobile Applications and Longtail Studios, in association with HurryDate® today announced the release of the first mobile speed dating game, HurryDate’s SpeedDaters on leading wireless carriers.

Pacific Media Associates (PMA), the global market information experts on large-screen displays, has just completed their End User Survey, which provides quantitative evidence of some notable and sometimes surprising consumer behavior. One key result is a measure of the reasons that consumers increasingly choose LCD over plasma for flat panel HDTVs.

Killer Guides, a leading online game guide publisher adds the WoW Profession Guide to its extensive portfolio of World of Warcraft strategy guides. The profession guide e-book is now available for $29.99 at www.killerguides.com/guides/wow/guide/world-of-warcraft/profession.

The Lord of the Rings Online Gold Guide gives new and experienced players new concepts and strategies to make more gold in LotRO. The LotRO Gold Guide provides a variety of making gold how-to's ranging from crafting items, looting trophies and gathering wood to profiting from Auction Hall trades. Each strategy is professionally explained in step-by-step details that even low level characters can follow.

The Lord of the Rings Online Hunter Guide is another release from the online game guide publisher, Killer Guides. The company now offers a specialized reference for the Hunter class at only $29.99. The LotRO Hunter Guide is now available as a downloadable e-book from www.killerguides.com/guides/lotro/guide/lord-of-the-rings-online/hunter.

Pacific Media Associates (PMA), the global market information experts on large-screen displays, has earned the reputation as the leader in front projector sell-through data, with more than 10 years’ experience tracking the Pro AV channel. The company also tracks large flat panel products, for both the consumer and professional markets. The professional products include those intended for lodging and digital signage installations, as well as other business-to-business applications.

Tritton’s latest product to be introduced to the UK is destined to take the idea of Bluetooth headphones to the next level. This time they incorporate style, functionality and sophistication in an easy to use, discrete and light weight device that does not compromise on sound quality.

Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, reports that in the hotly contested 50” to 54” HDTV market segment, 1080p LCD models outsold 1080p plasma models nearly three to one, even though the LCD models had average street prices 19% higher than the plasma models. LCDs continue to take market share away from plasma. As reported in their October Consumer 2007 Flat Panel Display Tracking Service, LCDs accounted for 80% of the total units sold in the flat panel TV market (models 26” or larger).

Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, reports that unit sales for rear projection HDTVs in North America increased 27% in October over September’s figures. Their October 2007 RPTV Sell-Through Tracking Service also shows that this is the highest unit sales since May 2007, but still represents less than half the sales in January 2007.

Pacific Media Associates (PMA), the global market information experts on large-screen displays, announces their 2007 U.S. Large-Screen Displays End User Survey, to be conducted via the Web.

MMOBUX published an account of one of the most controversial companies in the online gaming business: Internet Gaming Entertainment, LLC - better known as IGE. Detailing IGE's history from Spain to Vanuatu, the online currency research site follows the footsteps of the people who divided the online game community like no one else before. The results of the investigative report are now available on mmobux.com.

Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, has revised its worldwide forecasts for New Era front projector products. Unit shipments are expected to total less than 50,000 units this year, but that will grow rapidly to nearly 8 million units by 2011, with revenues topping $1.5 billion.

Novel Games has released 76 Flash games for the Nintendo Wii. The games are all small, casual games that come from a variety of categories like puzzle games, action games and sports games etc. And as always, all the games released by Novel Games are healthy and family safe.

Lode Runner 2.0 by ZX Games is a new version of the classic arcade. It has all those features of the original game to quench that nostalgia thirst for the golden years of ZX Spectrum era, plus the developers have taken one step forward to make the game experience most enjoyable and put the following in this version:

Pacific Media Associates, the global market information experts on large-screen displays, has announced the Buckaroo winners for best-of-show products exhibited at CEDIA 2007. The Buckaroo award is named for the pioneering cowboys of the Great Basin country of the American West, which includes portions of California, Nevada, Idaho, and Oregon. These cowboys were known for fancy gear that displayed lots of silver ornamentation.

In-room Viewing and Digital Signage Were Top Applications, per Detailed Surveys

Infinite is a feature-packed and expandable 32 zone wireless alarm & control panel for residential and light commercial use.

All across the country, football fans are trying to figure out how to convince their spouse or significant other that they really should get a new HDTV for the upcoming football season. So in time for tonight’s opening kick-off to start the NFL’s regular season, here is “Professor Poor’s HDTV Hourly Cost Index for 2007”, or the "PPHHCI2007".

Desktop Wings, Inc. announces the release of the second edition of "Professor Poor's Guide to Buying HDTV" by Alfred Poor. The first edition of this popular e-book was released in December 2005. It has now been updated in time for the fall buying season of 2007.