“! programming SO em ER ea NRRL TE OT TN A ON OY CECE es Ses SHOH sessessoeeoe SPIBESSSVISOS es ee AS DOO SESS EOSIS SSS SHGLDO HOME ELECTRONICS Tips heip to end product contusion A WALK into a consumer elec- tronics outlet can often be over- whelming, with the ever-changing models and features of today’s popular products such as CD players, VCRs and camcorders. To help you alleviate some of the confusion and decide what’s important, this checklist is a guide through entertainment buying. Compact disc players * Random access programmability — Choose favorite songs you want to hear in any order; © Wireless remote control -—- So you can access most functions from your armchair; * Repeat key — Replay a single track, entire disc, or personally programmed selections; @ Headphone jack with volume control — Listen in privacy; © Digital filter —- Provides low distortion for clean sounding music; © Skip function — Skip directly to favorite tracks; . Search function — Search in- ward or outward at low and high speeds, with audible monitoring capability; © Recall key — Lets the user dou- ble check what’s been programm- ed; © Multi-Disc — Holds numerous discs-at once in a cartridge for hours of continuous music; - © Large: integrated graphic display — Reveals valuable disc play and information at a glance; . .@ Flexibility’— Units available for | home, portable and car use. , VHS video cassette recorders full-length VHS movies; * Compact VHS format — Casset- tes, and units in general are smaller than standard VHS format, and recording time per cassette is also reduced. Compatible with VHS playback systems; ® Low-light sensitivity -- Re- cordings with high resolution and outstanding picture quality, even under fow lighting conditions; © Automatic iris — Adjusts unit automatically to changing lighting conditions; © High-speed shutter — Provides exceptional blur-free slow/still motion for analysing fast-paced action; * Power zoom lens — Look for smooth zooming capability and quick framing action from wide- angle to telephoto; ¢ Instant playback — Recordings can be played back from the unit itself for ‘‘on location’’ viewing; * Full automatic white balance control — Color balances automatically and continuously adjusts to ensure true-to-life col- ors; High quality (HQ) system —_ Enhances sharpness of image; ¢ Flying erase head — For ‘clean cuts between scenes without video break-up; * Audio dubbing/video dubbing — Complete the recording by ad- ding video footage or audio tracks. ¢ High quality. (HQ). VHS — . Enhances quality of VHS i image; ..® Hi-Fi stereo sound — Provides - excellent sourid reproduction, : vir- \ tually distortion free; a -® Three- or four-head’ system — _. Allows for exciting special effects . .. in the standard and super long play ‘modes; © ; ~ © Cadle-Compatible Tuner _ Simpli‘ies cable hook-up; © On screen display — TV screen displays. all _clock-timer functions ° and help* ‘features, . ensuring accu- racy of settings; : * Stand-by one-touch recording — Enables you.to begin recording almost. instantaneously at. the touch of a button; ® Wireless remote. control — ‘Command. most functions from around the room; © MTS broadcast stereo — Built-in circuitry ty take advantage of ex- panded stereo television sound (where available); * Bar code programming — Pass a ~ wireless _pen-like scanner over a printed ‘sheet of bar. codes to set time and day of desired TV pro- gram. ‘Info is beamed into the re- corder by pushing button; . * Built-in power amp — Hook “ stereo speakers directly to VCR for great sound without the need for _ added hi-fi equipment; © Digital special effects — Experi- ence picture-in-picture and TV memory capability. Camcorders Standard VHS format — Allows not only ptayback of your re- cordings, but also, of pre-recorded, . #192 great DX sounds s795° RX17 drum machine °26 digitally sampled sounds now 495 Bs! MSL *595° DX100 Synthesizers (while supplies last!!) egreat DX sounds at a great price was ‘795° ow $ 49 500 Downtown Vancouver 952 Granville Si, {between Nelson & Sa,vthe) 685-8471 TOM LEE MUSIC CO. LTD, 23 - Wednesday, October 28, 1987 - North Shore News SYEBESE OOD B08 SBBSES BOG Se ee o NEWS ‘photo Nell Lucente MARK HAMMER, manager of North Vancouver’s Future Shop holds up a new Minolta Camcorder while his own image is filmed and projected on a giant television screen in the background. 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The new format is a shiny disc the same size as a conven- tional CD, but it delivers five minutes of combined audio and video entertainment plus an addi- tional 20 minutes of high quality audio-only. At first, the new discs will be aimed at a young audience and wil! typically contain a music video clip and several song selections from an album. The godparents of the new foar- mat are the more than 30 manu- facturers who have agreed to mar- ket either the discs themselves or the new players which are re- quired. Typical of ihe innovative new players is a combination unit that can handle any shiny disc on the market, whether it’s a 12-inch laser, read video disc, eight-inch video disc, conventional audio- only compact disc or new CD video only. [ TUNE IN FOR SAVINGS | | ALPINE EPIC _ PRICES! 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