GREAT POSSIBILITIES

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 111, 4 February 1935, Page 9

GREAT POSSIBILITIES

Future Qf Television

(British Official Wireless.) Rugby, February 1. Considerable public interest has been aroused by the decision of the Government to give practical effect without delay to the main recommendations of the Television Committee. It is about 10 years since the pioneers succeeded, despite discouragement, in proving the possibility of transmitting sight as well as sound by wireless. Since then some thousands of experimenters in Britain have availed themselves of the service the 8.8. C. already affords of “low definition” pictures on a very low wave-length. While some newspapers express the view that the decision opens a new era, they are guarded as to the pace with which developments may lie expected.

The London Television Station is to begin later this year, and it is anticipated that eventually 50 stations in other parts of the country may be constructed, the high number being necessitated by the low range over which television can at present be made available —not more than 25 miles.

General approval is expressed at the broad lines of the Government’s decision and the centralising of control in the 8.8. C. The value of the course adopted by the Government as a means of .stimulating research, experiments and progress is emphasised, and, although the public are warned against expecting too much, it is generally held that the future holds large possibilities for television. A London cable states that Baird Television, Ltd., demonstrated the latest television apparatus nt the Crystal Palace, where they have established an installation capable of transmitting to a radius of 30 miles. The demonstration included horses jumping, a boxing match and a leeture, and also films, all indicating an advance on previous displays transmitted on a wave-length of seven metres. A receiving set, giving a picture 12In. x Pin., costs approximately £BO. Another, a small size. Sin. x 6in„ will cost approximately £5O. (Note on Page 7.)