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I heard something much the same on the radio driving home a couple nights back. What can I say talk radio is slightly less irritating then all the stations that replay the same ten songs until you hate the artists, and wish them a slow painful death.

Anyway they were running comments in relation to this. Their were of coarse positive comments from backers expecting the format to be a bright spot for the electronics industry this holiday season. However their were also comments from anonymous retail sources which were very blunt about the fact that for many retailers this holiday season is a last chance for the format. Apparently the format is not out of the woods. Retailers need proof that it can or will be profitable to devote real floor space to the format.

I found it interesting that perhaps the economic crisis may actually kill the format. Not that necessarily the backers have to drop their support. Just that retailers will decide to discontinue carrying the format, and once that happens you really are talking about a death knell.