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Show TheSalt I B2 Birding: CDs Teach Bird Songs ribune TIME & TECHNOLOGY Monday, March 3 1997 Hometheater i | Tips to Make Life Easier, Cheaper Installing on h tt 4 Back 1 Ri It 1 if you are not the order from the of TV senior citizen menu when dining at a restaurant. The se- @ Continued from B-1 ar sounds. The bla: nd white ike a and e Video In The tu itorial freeze whatever drink you a erving in.an ice cube tray aheadof time. Ifserving tea. make “tea” cubes; if punch punch” cubes. The drink ifyou have astereo VCR and a non-stereo TV, plug the RCAcableinto the audio out terminals of the youinaveid ey plug cord 2s a) groups Walton analyzes on the three discs Another novices Sounds” e m Somestereo receivers fromthe 1980s may have terminals fora VCR Plug the RCA/ Photos: The Ethics of those instead of the Manipulation volume for W@ To get a better @ Continued from B-1 receiver. canhave the internal speakers “off’ when connectedto an external sound eysien Crack the manualfor details. the TV and a denand city birds” of Volume1 Elliott analyzes the birds indi vidually, and his plain-spokenness makes the material simple to understand, Because the index contains only birds, you may approach the CD thinking you can tackle the whole thing over a weekend. These are, after all very familiarspecies But then you play track 1, on the American robin, and prompt ly drop thenotion oflearning it all =, ror einer Plug the RCAcableto the AUX terminals onyour stereo receiver Again observeleft and right creatures, such as the an inexpensive cut of meat! Turonyour select the AUXor input. Set the desired level of arrated by NorthWord Press) L Elliott, these programs use same tutorial style that “Birding By Ear does Zach CD. foe gym. Many will M Tryto get the most out of Tips auxiliary TAPE good CD series for Know Your Bird ($16.95 per volume part of the cost of joining a = > ER @Find out whether your insurance will cover or pease out terminals of foven On g eoveiett andright channels. Power BoM Back of stereo receiver will stay chilled and at full strength. Hvoulh stereo F phono VCR. Put the red or dark plugin rightor channel,astheyour white lighter plug as your left channel. = a so it goes for woodpeckers and two dozen other Phonocableinto AUX terminals field work to reinforce the audio studies — you will eventually outgrow narrated lessons. You'll still need to review bird songs and calls, but a stripped-down format will seem more practical That's the time to invest in National Geographic Guide to Bird Sounds, ($24.95, Cornell Lab of a two-CD set con cks. On each 4 narrator announces the common. name of a species. then the bird’s primary song is played, followed oy one or more calls. While bird-song CDs can intimi date a beginner. birding CD. ROMs ma to make the sub. ject intriguing and approachable This is because they're de signed as muchf and casu k exploration tudy. The three are for most popular viewer and calls while to s, listen to looking at and from easyto ¢ yest of the that n 1,000 birds, it n of the sort Id guide graphic CD-ROMs, the Na on Society's “North Birds $56.95, Kn Birding Softwa $65 America amount to somewhat humbler versions of the Peter son (CD: ROM. Thayer's sound televisions that sell is the less at ive of the two. due to a nky interface thd makes it urd to move from one compo ent to another about But does that turn the living room into a hometheater? Sort $2,500 and more can make your standard TV seem like a Model T. But, wait! How would you like to have the same thing for $10 or less? All you need is a couple of [$10] cords.” says Art Goldman of D-and-M Electronics in Wil mington, Del. “That'll give you better sound than you're used to It'll give you the equivalent of a poor man's home theater. Most people will be quite happy with that Use those cords to connect the sound outlets on the stereo TV set or stereo VCR to the auxiliary in puts on the amplifier ofyour ste. reo set You're no I depending on the TV's speakers, which are usually small andusually not the best quality,” Goldman says tion stereo of now your Tony Romano, tronics adds, speakers of Romano Elee near New Castle, “Not Del many people are ware you can get the same result connecting a stereo VCR to the amplifier The key word is “stereo,” Ro mano says. No matter how good a home sound system you have, it’s going to work without a TV that receives stereo sound, or in the ease of VCRs one capable only of playing monaural sound If you have to go beyond the ords, he has a basicprice list. For a minimal setup, you can get a2 inch stereo TV for about § Where to Buy Birding Software $200. Total pricetag: $900 plus $10 for the connecting cords for You also get the sound separa- Birds’ in the ia Guides series ($69.95. m Mifflin Interactive 1 GANNETT NEWS SERVICE Advertisements for surround stereo component systemfor another $350 and a stereo VCR for of, Goldmansays. The basie con cept of home theater is to sur. round viewers with sound from fourdistinct sources — two channels in front, twoin back. Youcan buy a quality home theater package for $800,” Roma- no says. “It has a decoder amplifier to split the four channels from your mer, ing over Capitol Reef. “Most pho- to illustrations are obvious Shelledy added More complicatedis identifying images that aren't so clearly phe ny. A composite image ot Salt Lake Olympic organizers ow’re probably as well off with 29-inch set. A 35-inch would ou a good home theater ef. ” Goldman says. Both men emphasizeit doesn’t a big budgettoenterthe TV er age. “All you need do is a good look at what you already have andsee howit can be »d,” Romanosa 's. “Only; then. something lustration” only thing missingis a sub-woofer alog: by e-mail: abasales(atjaba- XUXXuuuxxrrr NEARLY NEW CLOTHES SHOP TOP DESIGNER CONSIGNMENTCLOTHES UAYAWAYS & GIFT CERTIFICATES /AVLABL 402 E 900 § !8!..19/.521-2804 EEE XK EREE sales.com. dollars more Goldmanhas a cheaper way of doing even that, assuming your TV set has external jack outputs number — usually listed on the package labeling is enough. “That assumes onthepart ofthe public that they know what an ‘editorial illustration’ is,’ Denton said Studies in “eye traffic” cally covered our bases on that photo. Denton wonders whether such cutlinejust doesn’t have the same weight as anillustration does. Photo-manipulation hasa vary- ing degree of acceptance among editors, Denton said. Newspaper editors are less likely to useit than magazine editors, possibly because magazines rely more on newsstand sales than most news. papers. But both newspaperand magazine editors are morepredisposed to use manipulated images on the coveror front page than on inside pages. But whether in journalismor advertising, Denton believes there is a limit to how much people can fudge the truth when manipulating images. “If every one begins to doubt the veracity of images, either documentaryor persuasive, then evenadvertisers in thelong run lose,” Denton said But don’t blamethe technology said Magallon, “The technology that is alive todayis pretty re markable, if you use it correctly. the maker of the vacuum-cleaner adssaid. “They're only machines — you can't just turn over a bunch of information to a machine and it will spit out a good. looking product. Youstill have to haveall the people.” 143 S$. MAIN @ SALT LAKE CITY ¢ (801)237-2018 MONDAY-F RIDAY for the third and fourth channels. 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Whenyou're doing something that’s realistic, you've got to make it explicitly clear what you're do- albums and software oraf (wl were photographed in holding that same day’s newspapernot only carried a “photo il aitat le at most birding sup Sales, 800-6 W Read cleaning-produet labels to be sure a product TV and the speakers. The fy stores, The CD titles reviewed here are also available on tape. To 1 the publishers directly, use ciation’s mail order store, ABA while making homerepairs. tion (called a “cutline” in newspa per jargon), Denton said. “A showed flying saucers hover- Happy 6Sth Birthday March 3rd r Birding Software www. birding.com » American Birding Asso: sore knees from kneeling that many readers mayseethe il- said. 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