Adding the 3-D component, including the silver coating of the screen, costs about $20,000 more, but the added benefit is immediately visible, said Michael V. Lewis, chairman of Real-D, which dominates the 3-D projection business.
As more theaters are forced by studios to move away from traditional film projection, businesses are forced to face an audience who isn't willing to go to the movies to watch the same DVD they can at home.
Too often, strategies are based on projections of business impacts that are oversimplified or flawed.
Travel industry analysts warned that projections that business travel would double over the next five years should be treated cautiously.
Still, for the economy as a whole, analysts have been scaling back their projections for business investment and profits over the next year.
Projections for business investment and exports – the two sectors that were supposed to lead to a rebalancing of the economy – have been cut since the spring.
The projections for business investment are, perhaps, credible possibilities because we know surges do happen – one can clearly see the late-1980s Lawson boom and the late-1990s dotcom and technology excitement.
But since the broad outlines of a deal were first proposed, many said a simple swap would be out of sync with the realities of politics, budget projections and business.
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