HUNDRED MILES AWAY

Hawera Star, Volume L, 5 March 1931, Page 7

HUNDRED MILES AWAY

WATCHING CRICKET MATCHES. MARVELS OF TELEVISION. Zone television, which was demonstrated. for the first time m London on December 30, makes it possible toi an audience in a theatre to watoh a cricket match being played 100 mdes away or the progress of the Lord Mayor’s banquet. Hitherto not more than one stationary figure has been flashed through space but at this demonstration, eight moving figures were seen, on a screen. . - ~ A vroup of people, m a room in tne laboratory of tlie Baird Television Company in London, saw the full-size figure of Strudwick, the England and Surrey cricketer, appeal- on a screen. Ho stood iu front of wickets and made imaginary strokes with, liis bat, wJiicii the audience in another room could see quite clearly. Then eight figures appeared on the screen. “It is intended to develop this new apparatus for use in theatres and gmemas as apart from home television, Mr.’John L. Baird, the inventor of television, said m an interview, tor where places pf public entertainment are concerned, there is no objection to using telephone wires "between the central'studio and the theatres. “The chief difficulty in transmitting large images by television is finding sufficient space in the Where telephone lines are available this restriction can be overcome by using pairs of lines, and that is the new apparatus wo have developed working on this zone principle. “Full-size scenes can he transmitted There is no limit to tho amount of detail so that there is nothing to prevent this system showing views equal in size and detail to the cinematograph.”