WILL NEVER COMPETE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 67, 21 March 1938, Page 9

WILL NEVER COMPETE.

TELEVISION AND RADIO. HERMAN VISITOR'S OPINION. "Television will never be a competitor v.ith regular broadcasting," said Herr von Henk, European general manager of the German Telefunken Co.. of Berlin, who arrived by the Aorangi to-dav, en route to America. "Visual broadcasts are something entirely different from sound and greater concentration is required to follow them," he added. "That will always be the position."

1 For the past two years, he explained, there had been television transmitters metalled in various parte of Berlin, where the public eould see and hear without charge, and by this meane the people were becoming accustomed to the new medium. They were also realising the essential difference betwen the two forms of radio. Although the technical difficulties connected with transmission by television methods had been largely overcome the stage where mass production could be undertaken had not yet been reached, he eaid, and until tiiie receivers were manufactured on a large scale thev would continue to be expensive. deferring to his company, Herr von Henk eaid it had a staff of 8000, the majority of whom were in Berlin, and a big building with provision for laboratories, workshops and testing was nowbeing oected in a Berlin suburb. One of the oldest of radio enterprises, it was founded in 1903, and had been prominent in the extension of the radio in Germany in recent years. He mentioned that^ the number of radio eete made and *sold in Germany annually now approached 2,000,000.