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.ports,

or weather

reports while

away from

the

home

or office,

or a parent

who wants

to

keep

the kid quiet

in

the back seat

on

a

long

drive.

En route,

an optional

vehicle

cigarette

lighter

adaptor

(CA -K90)

takes

the

load

off

the dry

cells.

The 93,720

-pixel

image

has

the resolu-

tion

of

a 3 -D postcard.

Vertical

lines

in the

image

can be sharp,

but diagonals

and

horizontals

are

just

slightly

fuzzy.

Color is

good.

Skin

tones are

easy

to fine tune

using

the TINT

and COLOR

controls

on the

side of

the

unit.

One irritation

was

the

transistor

radio -

like

channel indicator.

Until

the

viewer

becomes

familiar with

the

dial, he

or she

never

knows

for sure where

a favorite sta-

tion

is.

The scan -

and -lock

tuning itself,

if

not

its

display,

is sharp

and stable.

The

transistor

-radio

feel

of

the unit is

carried

through

in

the TV-

3000's

vinyl

carrying

case

(supplied).

After

a lifetime

of watching

con-

ventional

CRT screens, viewers

may

notice

little

discrepancies

in

the LCD

im-

age.

Motion is

more fluid,

less

abrupt on

the

LCD screen.

But

the main

curiosity

is

the

way

the mouths

of talking

heads

seem

slightly

out of

sync with

the sound.

Pro-

grams

appear

to have

been

dubbed from

another

language. We

began

to wonder

if

the

technology was

delivering

the standard

25- frames-

per

-second

of

CRTs, or slightly

fewer

to compensate

for the

slower

re-

sponse

of the

LCD pixels.

It's surprising

how fast

the viewer

ad-

justs to the

limitations

of

the tiny

TV for-

mat. After

a few

minutes,

the

thin sound

emerging

from

the TV-

3000's

PA6 -inch

speaker

and the

ghostly quality

of

the 3.3-

inch

image

are

forgotten

and

you're

just

there doing what

you

do

5est,

watching

the

tube.

It's

a measure

of how far

LCD

television

technology

has come

that it

bears

com-

parison with

CRT sets, and

not just

the

early versions

of the

dominant

technology.

The illustration

on the

TV-

3000's box

pictures

the

unit

with

a football

game

on-

screen,

indicating

that sports

fans

are in-

deed

an intended

market

for the

product.

Football,

basketball,

soccer,

or

any other

game that uses

large

-size balls

looks

fine.

Baseball

is not

as satisfactory

on

the small

screen.

The

ball

disappears

even during

infield

plays. We

doubt sports

fans will

be

as

confident

second

-guessing

first

-base

umpires

from

the

evidence

presented on

the set's screen.

The

UHF -VHF rod

antenna

pulled

in

most

stations

adequately.

There

is an exter-

nal

antenna jack

and

an optional

adaptor

(AS

-35S) to

enhance

reception

for

viewers

in weak

-reception

areas,

and a

mini -plug

connector

-equipped

car antenna will

make

for

better reception

on

the road.

The in-

struction

manual warns

in

boldface

"You

should

never, however,

attempt

to

watch

television while

operating

a motor vehi-

cle,"

and

certainly

never

while

you're

talking

on the

cellular phone

at the same

time.

The

four -way

power -supply

system in-

cludes,

beside

the car adaptor

and bat-

teries,

an AC adaptor

and rechargeable

battery

packs. With

the unit

drawing

5.5

watts,

running

on batteries

cells

is a sure

short

cut to bankruptcy.

Another way

to save

power is

to operate

with

the LCD panel

raised.

That automat-

ically

shuts

off the high

-luminance

fluo-

rescent-

material

backlight,

and allows

the

screen

to be illuminated

by reflected

am-

bient

light. The

backlight

is

good

for over

1500

hours

before it

has to be

replaced.

LCD

sets have

definitely

moved beyond

the novelty

stage.

But

what

we've

got now

is a

transistor

radio

with

a

video

compo-

nent. It will

probably

be no one's

choice

for a

first set. The

technology's payoff will

come

down

the road, perhaps

in telecom-

munications.

Electronics

firms don't

ex-

pect to recoup

development

costs

by

satisfying

upscale

consumers who

are

un-

able

to spend

ten minutes

out of doors

without

watching

television.

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Now

that

electronic

communication

is

universal

and instantaneous,

the problem

is no

longer

connecting,

but disconnect-

ing.

That is

our impression,

anyway, when

we

survey

the

myriad of

telephone

ac-

cessories

and

add -ons designed

to insulate

the

called party

from unwanted

callers.

Answering

machines,

to take the

most

common

example,

nearly

always are

ad-

vertised

as including

"call screening"

ca-

pability.

Or, to take

an

uncommon

example,

there's

the Telescreen

II

Call

Screening

Device.

That

device might

be an "intelligence

community

"spin

-off,

a budget- minded

adaptation

of some platinum

-priced

spy

tool. What

the Telescreen

H is designed

to

accomplish

is putting

telephone

access to

its

user

on a "need

to know" basis.

Inci-

dental

to that function,

it also serves

as an

electronic

telephone index,

capable

of

storing

40 ten -digit

numbers.

Beyond its function,

the "microcom-

puter

telephone filter

device with

incom-

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call display "(that's

the full moniker

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