Word: soundly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't very long before I saw it," said Marks. As a concussive whumping sound crescendoed around them, the helicopter skimmed 100 ft. over the river, then dodged out of sight. Moments later, an airplane appeared, swooped by so its passengers could enjoy a leisurely view of the gorge and soared away. Soon another light plane buzzed above the gorge. In an hour, Marks counted nine different aircraft. "To someone who spends several days hiking into the Grand Canyon and then gets bombarded," he said, "this is a heck of a problem...
...Sound familiar...
Many links in a chain must be completed, however, before sound can start bouncing off the living-room walls. In order to pick up a network stereo broadcast, a local station must first be adapted for stereo. Some 200 stations have made the technical conversion, and 300 more plan to do so this year. Then, of course, the home viewer must either have a stereo TV or convert his conventional set to stereo with an adapting device (average cost: $150). Once a set is stereo-ready, more sophisticated audio gear can be connected to it. Bill Artope, a producer...
Music on TV can obviously be enhanced by stereo, but what is the point of wall-to-wall sound for more routine programming like sitcoms? "In mono broadcasts the laugh track is flat," says NBC Senior Vice President Warren Littlefield, "but in stereo it sounds more like a live audience. The audience at home comes closer to the live experience." Others see a big potential for stereo sports. "Imagine getting the Indianapolis 500 in stereo," says Dennis Lewin, senior vice president for sports production at ABC. "You'd have the feeling of the sound as the cars came around...
...converts to such surround-sound effects will undoubtedly grow. "There are connoisseurs, and there are those who are just curious," says Joe Berini, chief engineer for KRON-TV in San Francisco, which went stereo last May. "Soon there will be people who just want to keep up with the Joneses." If only to drown out the noise coming from next door...