Stereo television study
PA Wellington The Broadcasting Corporation is investigating stereo television transmission systems which would, allow programmes to be screened in two languages. The television transmitters supervising engineer with the corporation,
Mr Doug Ingham, said yesterday that the corporation aimed to test two systems, one developed by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the other developed in West Germany. It would be a long time before such a system was introduced in New Zealand,
he said. The first country to broadcast television in stereo was Japan in 1978, followed by West Germany in the early 1980 s. The Japanese' used one channel" for Japanese and the other for English language broadcasts, he said.
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Press, 10 August 1985, Page 8
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