TELEVISION DEVELOPMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 21945, 4 February 1935, Page 9

TELEVISION DEVELOPMENTS

i SERVICE IN BRITAIN PUBLIC INTEREST AROUSED (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, February 1. Considerable public interest has been aroused by tho decision of the Government to give practical effect without delay to the main recommendations of the Television Committee. It is about ten years since pioneers succeeded, despite discouragement, m proving the possibility of transmitting sight as well as sound by wireless. Since then some -thousands of experimenters in Great Britain have availed themselves of the service the British Broadcasting Corporation already affords of “low definition” pictures on a very low wave length. While some newspapers express the view that the decision opens up a new era, they are guarded as to the pace with which developments may be expected. General approval is expressed at the broad lines of tbe Government’s decision, and also of the centralising of control in the British Broadcasting Corporation. PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION LONDON, February 1. • Baird Television Ltd., to-day demonstrated television from the Crystal Palace, where the ■ company has established an installation capable of transmitting over a radius of thirty miles. The demonstration included pictures of horses jumping, a boxing match, a lecture and also films. All the trials indicated an advance on previous displays transmitted on a wave length of seven metres. The receiving set giving the picture was twelve inches by nine inches, and cost approximately £BO. Another, eight inches by six inches, cost appipximately £SO.