TELEVISION SETS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 158, 1 April 1937, Page 13

TELEVISION SETS

Reductions in Price Recent developments in television broadcasting by the 8.8. C. from Alexandra Palace include an increase from two to three hours on week days and the commencement of a brief Sunday transmission. The effective range of the Alexandra Park transmitters is given officially as 25 miles. In practice, with recent improvements in apparatus, this has been greatly exceeded, and unofficially is now put at approximately 45 miles, serving nearly a quarter of the total population of the country. The official decision to confine transmission to one system, instead of the two hitherto experimented with, has resulted, according to the principal television set manufacturers, a big increase in sales. Some have already made reductions of one-third in prices, others are to announce new prices shortly. The firms state, however, that there is no immediate prospect of these sets coming down to the price-level of sound receivers. Sixty guineas is quoted as the probable lowest price of sets confined to television, and anything from 60 to 100 guineas for apparatus combining both vision and all-wave sound instruments.