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English Classes on TV

If you live in New England (the States of Connecticutt, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island), you can take free English classes on your TV.

The Comcast Digital Cable company has started "English ON DEMAND", video ESL classes that people can watch whenever they want.

The company says:

English ON DEMAND is available to anyone in New England with a Digital Cable box just by tuning into Channel 1 or selecting the ON DEMAND button on their remote. The English For You tutorials can be found under the "Learn English" tab in the "Get Local" category.

Read more here.

New TV

The Canon company is planning to make a new kind of flat-panel TV: SED (Surface-conduction electron-emitter display). It uses less energy than LCD and plasma TV's.

Canon and Toshiba were going to make them together. Now, Canon is expected to buy Toshiba's share of the business and make the TV's alone.

This should start at the end of this year.

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Sources:

"Canon wants its own TVs". Yepeoo.com, January 12, 2007

"SED TVs to be Produced by Canon Independently". Usb4ever.com, January 12, 2007

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