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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday April 189 Page 13 Top TVs provide highquality pictures The staff from Kentners Catering congratulated Jean Smith on win- a trip to the Dominican Republic In a contest held by Kentners over the last five months Left to right are Lorl Kentner Jean Smith Gerry Kentner Suzanne Day of Travel and Dave Kentner Herald photo By the Editors of Consumer Reports To judge by trends in television sales people miss the expanse of the big movie screen and the realism of movietheater sound Screens are getting bigger Sets with a 26inch or 27inch screen are now selling faster than the and 20- And sound lowfidelity for so long is finally nearing true highfidel ity even though most sets still need the assist of a hifi system or at least decent speakers Recently the electronics engineers at Consumer Reports tested 16 mostly 26- and 27inch mod els That extra inch means little it generally comes from making the screens corners which is the style trend on all sizes of TVs these days All were models with builtin stereo sound and a remote control List prices ranged from to Picture quality was the main crite rion the testers used to rate the sets Its most important constituents are clarity contrast and color fidelity All the sets produced a very good picture By a small margin the Hitachi CT7880K list topped the rat ings Other good choices are the Pan asonic list the Mag- 799 list its twin the Sylvania list the J C Penney Cat No list plus shipping the Mitsubishi CS2657R list and the RCA list As one expects with highend TVs these days all the sets tested had builtin MTS multichannel televi sion sound with the necessary stereo decoder and at least two speakers ASK KATHY Sidefiring speakers which point out ward from the side of the set give a better stereo effect sense of space than speakers that face straight out into the room But if the set is to be enclosed in a cabinet or an alcove sidefiring speakers could lose their advantage None of the sets speakers can ren der sound at the quality level associ ated with a decent hifi system The speakers are simply too small and too close together for that Most of the sets tested give you the choice of listening through the TVs speakers external speakers or both Most people interested in good sound will want to listen through both sets of speakers That way the TV speakers fill in the center of the stereo sound image a rather pleasing effect Quebec heads into 21st century By VIC PARSONS Thomson News Service Long seen as somewhat of a business backwater in North America Quebec to day is a leader in the charge toward the 21st- century economy Inside and outside the historic walls of the core of this unique city there is a transformation that is lower key than emotional language and constitutional issues but nonetheless powerful The changes are happening all over the province but are par ticularly apparent in the Quebec City area Its perhaps why a demonstra tion last week against the con troversial language Bill 178 drew a crowd of only a few hundred mostly teenagers compared with the estimated at a similar Montreal event Montreal has a jobless rate of about per cent Quebec Citys is merely per cent In short the residents of the provincial capital were too busy at their jobs Theres a climate of business confidence here The Liberal government of Premier Robert Bourassa is a leader in Canada in privatization and deregulation Businessmen wax enthusiastic about the products they are selling across Canada and abroad They are cocky and selfassured The economy of the province is humming along nicely Indeed with an election expected sometime this year the Parti Quebecois opposition is hard- pressed to find a chink in the Liberals economic armor In terest rates are mentioned but that after all is a federal respon sibility If there is a stain on the governments economic record it is likely HydroQuebec Three times in less than a year massive power blackouts have hit Quebec And while the one last week has been blamed on sunspots that doesnt ease the problem In dustry Minister Pierre MacDonald says the failures show a need to pay attention to the power grid ECONOMY CHANGED But hydro aside what has been happening to transform the provin cial economy Pierre Fortier Quebecs privatization minister says FrenchCanadians are more in terested in business and finance The Quiet Revolution of the 1960s focused on education and culture says Now after 200 years of ceding economic matters to anglais entrepreneurship is rapidly advancing in Quebec Survival as a minority in North America requires that succeed on the economic front he says Since the last election in 1985 Bourassas government has sold off more than a score of Crown- owned companies with an asset value of about billion This privatization is not of the doctrinaire Margaret Thatcher type Its not a move to dismantle the record of governments past but practical economics says Meanwhile Fortiers ministry is developing legislation for next fall that will allow Quebecchartered insurance companies to diversify into industrial and commercial holding companies Fortier says businesses realize Quebec is a leader in the deregulation of finan cial institutions Its no coincidence that Fortier is a professional engineer Astoun- dingly three of the worlds 10 largest consulting engineering firms are from Quebec SECURE FINANCIALLY Pierre says have a level of financial security they have not enjoyed before and he believes controver sies over language will hurt the province The industry minister says hes not aware of any major investment situation other than the much- publicized IngersollRand affair in which language has had a negative impact There are reports of some Asian investors steering clear of Quebec but MacDonald argues a major attraction for those people are family ties in Van couver and Toronto Quebecers know whether they like it or not that English is the language of business MacDonald says But they also affirm their cultural 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