Colour TV for journalists

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33250, 13 June 1973, Page 14

Colour TV for journalists

At the British Commonly wealth Games in Christie church, next year, journal- | ists will have at their dis- | posal more than 50 | colour television receivers, I enabling them to keep a | constant watch on events | in the Queen Elizabeth | Stadium, and at outside |i venues. : The Games communicaI tions committee announced I recently that the AucklandI based Autocrat Radio, I Limited, had been successful in its tender for the supply of “off air” colour . television receivers and monitors. The term "off air” applies I to the reception of actual ; transmissions in colour, | originating from the CHTV3 transmitter at Sugarloaf. Autocrat Radio, Limited, assemble and market in New Zealand the Japanese Sanyo Electric Company’s colour television receivers

which incorporate the full P.A.L. specifications. The sets to be used at the Games are the same models as those which are now available on the New Zealand market. Sanyo’s involvement in the 1974 Commonwealth Games is a continuation service to previous sporting events around the world. At last year’s Winter Olympics at Sapporo, the Federation Internationale de Ski decided that judgment should be based on scientifically analytical data such as the recording of the athletes’ performances byvideo tape recorder. As a result of that decision, the Sanyo V.T.R. system was used to aid and support the judgment of performers in the slalom of the Winter Olympics, using equipment that provided instant and precise reviewing of the athletes in slow or stop motion.

As well as supplying the sets to be used for the Games next year, Autocrat Radio also will supply receivers for use during the Games rehearsal, which is planned for November this year, providing a preview of the reception expected during the Games. As much of the media representatives’ viewing time will be during daylight, some problems could have been expected with the reflection problems which are so familiar to afternoon

viewers of black-and-white television programmes. However, the Sanyo sets which will be used incoiporate the blackmatrix type of picture tube, which eliminates this problem by forcing all available light from the phosphor dots, which make up the picture, through the front of the tube, instead of allowing light to scatter at random through the tube, producing a shadowy, obscure picture.