ACROSS WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 7

ACROSS WORLD.

TELEVISED TESTS. Problems Confronting Empire Services. COSTLY LATINO OF CABLES. ITnitPd Press Association.—Copyright. (Roce-ived 2 p.m.) LONDON". February 9. How soon the England-Australia cricket Tests will he televised was raised indirectly at the Royal Empire Society's "television night," at which Sir Noel Ashbridge, 8.8.C. engineering controller, gave an admirable exposition of the system. A P«st Office expert. Colonel Angwin. revealed that it was already possible to transmit television loner distances if it did not have to traverse seas or use radio. It might be achieved by means of special concentric cables which are at present being laid from London as far north as Newcastle. •Sir Noel said that if they settled down to a wave length of 12 metres they would succeed in modulating the wide band of frequencies. It was not beyond possibilities, if conditions were right, to get a picture over thousands of miles. There was a risk of distortion of the signals in transit. There was always the chance of somebody luckily hitting the right conditions and achieving results in Australia. Then people would begin to ask when the 8.8.C. was going to give ar Empire service. Discussions after the meeting centred on the problem of who would pay for laying of concentric cables over thousands of miles for such a service.