TV developments
Sir, — The article about the latest developments in television technology (August 22) is exciting. It should not be long before the colour tube is replaced by a solidstate screen about one or two centimetres thick. High voltage and vacuum will be eliminated. With today’s lightemitting diodes and photochemical engraving processes, as used in the manufacture of integrated circuit chips, such a display unit, which will permit more compact design and has the convenience of being able to be exchanged for displays of different sizes by plugging and unplugging as with speakers on stereos, should be technically and economically viable. That there is still no frequency - modulation broadcasting in New Zealand is sufficient proof that we are still scared of quality. If we had a video-cassette-recorder manufacturing industry under licence in New Zealand, viewers would have the freedom, as they do in all other Western democratic countries, to view programmes which suit them and not the B.C.N.Z. — Yours, etc., FRANCIS WEBSTER. August 24, 1979.
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