TALKIES IN THE HOME

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 March 1935, Page 7

TALKIES IN THE HOME

TELEVISION TELEPHONES i PRACTICAL POSSIBILITIES i FUTURE ENTERTAI N3IENTS. From Our Own Correspondent. (By Air Mail). LONDON, Feb. 9. Britain is agog with the expectation of television. By keeping the inventors in this country there is a big chance that America, who lias led so decisively in the production of ordinary radio sets, will take a back seat in the new ‘hooking-in' ’ era. Mere television by radio is, however, not the full stor3 r of the immediate development. Television telephones—that is, telephones in which you see the person to whom you are speaking—are now a practical possibility. Their introduction into general use is only delayed for the time being by the high cost of installation. Mobile television vans are to be used in the next general election. The speakers will sit in comfort inside the vans while a close-up picture of himself on a screen, measuring at least Bft by 6ft will speak to the crowd outside. Public television entertainments on screens measuring 201't by loft will be an everyday occurrence within three years. By that time television will be part of the equipment of every cinema for the rapid showing of topical news. Captain A. G. D. West, the technical director of the Baird television system, said this week: “Television is going to be one of the most powerful influences in the future of civilisation.

“Up to now it has been regarded as a scientist’s dream, but it is not. It is a reality. Within three years at the present rate of progress it will not only be in every home, but it will be on all. cinema screens. “Ordinary sound broadcasting as we know it at present* will, of course, remain and develop side by side with the sending of pictures.’’