BUSINESS
Tower of tube

Panasonic introduces leading-edge television

Michael
Becker

HIGH TECH

THROUGHOUT THE
years that Garth Mossop
has been selling television
sets at CGM Sound and
Color he’s watched ihe
technological transition of
the tube with more than
average interest.

‘ Today’s leading-edge product is
@ response to the phenomenon -
generally identified as ‘‘cocoon-
ins.”

Entertainment dollars are stay-
ing at home. For those so inclined
it is. possible to fill a room with
hi-fi, high-end, high-definition
audio-video hardware.

The television-watci:ing experi-
ence is now a surround-sound
enhanced, picture- in-picture,

: home-theatre leisure pursuit. The
ubiquitous TV is no longer simply
a convenient spot upon which to
place a plant.

‘Pending the arrival of true

high-definition television broad-.

: casting, the refinements manufac-
~turers are building into the televi-
sion sets we buy. are by nature in-
cremental. ;

But Mossop | is particularly ex-

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

GARTH MOSSOP of North Vancouver-based CGM Sound and Color shows off the new high-end
television from Panasonic recentiy introduced to the North American market.

cited about a new product
delivered to the North American
tnarket several weeks ago.

Mossop sees the Panasonic
GAOO SuperFlat System televi-
sion as a big step forward.

One of the key advances is to
be found in the picture tube. It’s
high-contrast, has 700 lines of
resolution and is 30% flatter than
other TV screens. That makes for
a uniformly brighter and sharper
picture.

Speakers are wrapped around
either side of the screen.

Models including the picture-
in-picture feature will appeal to
replay fanatics.

Said Mossop, “If I want, I can
ask it to replay the last four se-
conds of video information. It

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it.

“Certainly if people are wat-
ching a hockey game and are

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