TELEVISION PROSPECTS

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28222, 9 March 1957, Page 4

TELEVISION PROSPECTS

“NO REASON WHY N.Z. CANNOT HAVE IT”

“Seeing even Thailand has television, I don’t see any reason in the world why New Zealand cannot have it,” said Mr J. James, chairman of an English group of radio and television companies, in an interview in Christchurch.

When asked if he thought the hills in Hew "Zealand were one of the obstacles stopping the installation of television, Mr James said that they were not. “In England we have much higher hills and these are easily overcome with higher antennae,” he said. “If the hills are exceptionally high, the beams can be directed down the valleys.” Mr James said that to many New Zealanders television would be more or less a necessity, particularly to residents in the back country, for lessons for the children, and to hospital patients. In hospitals in England television sets able to direct the pictures had been installed.

“Colour television will probably not be in use before 1965, as there are still a great many technical problems to be solved,” said Mr James. “When it does come, however, the sets now in use will be able to receive colour transmission just the same.”