Hit by TV Price Wars, Tweeter Regroups

February 1, 2007 Hit by TV Price Wars, Tweeter Regroups (AP)

A passerby watches the big screen HDTVs as he window shops outside the Tweeter electronics store on Boylston Street in Boston, in this, Jan. 8, 2007, file photo. Sunday's Super Bowl showdown between the Bears and Indianapolis Colts is amplifying a high-definition TV buying frenzy that already was under way thanks to a 20 percent to 30 percent drop in prices from a year ago and heavy promotions by retailers and manufacturers. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, file)

(AP) -- Tweeter Home Entertainment Group Inc. is trying to ease out of the line of fire in a flat-panel television price war that erupted over the holidays and is extending through Super Bowl Sunday.

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