“LONG WAY OFF”
COMMERCIAL TELEVISION. "Television now is an accomplished fact, but for the community it still is a dream,” said Mr D. G. Wyles, of Sydney, after his return by air from a flight to England. “Not for 10 years—probably longer—will the world know television as it to-day knows wireless,” he adds, “and unless something revolutionary occurs it will he a long while before Australia will know it as a commercial proposition. "Television is getting very near to perfection,” he said. “It is being broadcast overseas, but over a restricted area. The greatest difficulty with it is not technical, but financial. “A station is being built in London that will broadcast television to about one-half of London —if London wants it. The cost of a receiving set in the home is not less than £ 100, and the picture project through it is about 81u. by Sin.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11930, 23 January 1936, Page 1
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