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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11453, 2 March 1931, Page 3

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TELEVISION IN USE

EXPERT SAYS BY 1933

NEW YORE, Feb. 16. Merlin .Avlesworth, president of tlm National Broadcasting Coy., is confident ihat lelevision will be ready for general adoption in 1033 The Columbia system and the pell Telephone laboratories have made remarkable strides in two-way teleVl You’sit; in a booth and through an aperture four inches square appears (he head and shoulders of your friend several miles distant.. You converse with ease, and. ree.ogn.is fi every facial expression. Bid the cost is £6 where it would be fis on the regular telethe prohibitive cost that has been holding hack a commercial television service Actually, fairly perfect still pictures are produced to-day upon apparatus costing £2O, though an installation providing a convincing twoway television demonstration costs more like £2OOO. . , . A recent hint bv Marconi that radio will soon enter into a new field, and the revelation that stations in England and Germany have been receiving television images froni sliortwave stations of the General Electric Company at Schnoetndy, have given rise to reports that nil corporations in the communication field arc racing With eacli other to be first to sell television. . , This has brought a number of denials. hut the face remains that pi the vicinity of New York a great deal of money is-being spent in preparations for commercial television. Radio City, 'of which Rockefeller junior, is landlord, is founded upon television. .