Final Customer Purchasing from the Product Producer

Use Steps: Use steps include all the customer's value added activities or the consumption of the product itself. These steps include all the costs the customer incurs in employing the product in its intended use.

C.
Experience: Enhance the experience the customer has with the product

1. Add new appeal to the senses

B. See

Improve visual performance and clarity

No.	SIC	Year	Note
1	3571	2003	The replacement cycle for gaming PCs can be as short as one year as gamers install new graphics cards, or even a microprocessor. However, the hearts and minds of gamers are with companies like Alienware and Voodoo. It's the 'cool' factor and they are willing to spend a lot. "We are dealing with people who are buying something like a Ferrari."
2	3571	2004	Playstation 3 is expected to boost hotter technology than the Xbox. In addition to high definition graphics and massive processing power in its Cell multimedia chip, it also will offer a new DVD technology called Blu-ray Disc. Unlike Xbox 360, the new PlayStation will be able to run high-definition movies.
3	3571	2001	Sony's newest hand-held Clie computer, $499, uses Palm software, but it looks very different from a Palm with its bright, vivid color display. The display is better than that of any other handheld competitor. This Sony screen offers twice the resolution of a standard Palm or Handspring screen. There's also a built-in program for displaying photos and brief color video clips, with audio.
4	3651	2005	Sharp HDTV's offer a "smart stretch" which minimizes the distortion in the middle of the screen. HDTV continues to be challenging, but when it works, the beautiful images make the trouble and expense worth it.
5	3651	2004	Sony also plans to sell a portable Vaio Pocket player, featuring a 2.2-inch color liquid crystal display for showing photos and album covers while playing music. Vaio Pocket is expected to be available in September for about $500.
6	3694	1988	Videojet printers have clarity, color, adhesion, visibility, stability, & survivability.
7	3827	1985	Essilor International SA introduced its innovative progressive lenses in 1971, which changed the market, Sola's first progressive lenses came out many years later, in 1985.
8	3861	1989	Kodak's Ektar film produces sharp color prints, which makes them conducive to clear enlargements, even as large as poster-size.
9	4800	2003	The trend in web conferencing is to let users do everything associated with a long-distance meeting. That includes visually seeing the participants that are in far-away offices– a service that had been the province of video conferencing.
10	7812	2002	The next leap in the DVD format-after DVD video and DVD audio-is to high-definition DVD.
11	7819	1999	On Jan. 1, Imax theaters will start showing "Fantasia 2000," a remake of Walt Disney's animated classic. Imax has entered mainstream America, and attracts millions of moviegoers with its special effects.
12	7832	1996	As living standards rise and Asians can afford higher ticket prices, theater owners are replacing their old firetraps with modern multiscreen cinemas that have plush stadium-style seating, computerized ticketing, curved screens, the latest audiovisual systems.

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