15 - Friday, Jane 23, 1989 - North Shore News NEW ELECTRONICS movie experience home ATV brings IMAGINE TOP Gun’s F-16s roar- ing off your television screen and into your living room, or Olympic gymnasts almost catapulting into your lap. Better yet, imagine a personal movie theater in your own home. According to the experts at the Electronic Industries Associa- tion/Consumer Electronics Group (IA/CEG), a dazzling new tech- nology known as an Advanced Television System (ATV) is just around the corner, and it will pro- . duce video pictures and sound that will rival even the best motion pic- ture theater. “Although ATV is still a few years away for Canadian au- diences, this technology has been demonstrated several times in the past few months to selected groups,”” says EIA/CEG group vice-president Thomas P. Friel. “Those who saw the demonstra- tion agree that watching a program on an ATV system is almost like seeing it live through a picture window.’’ Friel believes that ATV, ex- pected to arrive in the early 1990s, will revolutionize home video, do- ing for the family TV what the compact disc player did for the DOUBLE ‘S’ CEDAR HOMES CALL TODAY FOR FREE BROCHURE OR SEND $3.00 FOR CATALOGUE Cail today: DOUBLE ‘S' CEDAR HOMES 147T1C 64th AVE. SURREY VIS 1X6 MANUFACTURER OF QUALITY CEDAR HOMES AND CABINS FACTORY DIRECT. PREFABRICATED 00 IT. YGURSELF PACKAGES OR USE OUR ERECTION CREWS (604) 596-6737 FAX (604) 980-2396 _ stereo. In a nutshell, ATV will deliver a picture that equals, if not sur- passes, the clarity and depth of 35mm film, the standard of the motion picture industry. Beyond stunning picture quality, ATV will offer another big bonus: A screen designed to fit today’s wide-screen motion pictures. Six ATV concepts are now under consideration. Each creates its re- markable picture by packing more scanning lines into the image and, thus, more detail on to the screen. See ATVs Page 16 Distributed By: Double ‘S’ Prefab Homes Ltd. ERNIE L. HUBBARD Display Home/Saies (604) 596-8737 FAX (604) 980-2396 Please send me your plan book, spec. shest. home planner and price list. Enciosed is $3.00. Location of Building lots WE’RE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE (CYPRESS OPENING OF