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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, .

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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.

A FEW YEARS ago we heard about the marriage of audio and video, a union that brought us home entertainment centres filled with state-of-the-art electronic goodies such as large screen TV monitor/receivers, stereo VCRs, compact disc players and a control centre that enabled us to operate all of these at the touch of a remote control keypad.

This fall, the consumer elec- tronics industry introduced the first product which can be called the offspring of that marriage — CD video.

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heritage. 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.

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