TELEVISION SOON?

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1932, Page 6

TELEVISION SOON?

MAY BE COMMONPLACE IN TWO YEARS. PREDICTION BY EXPERTS. LONDON, January V. Television enabling tbe looker-in sit at borne and see events happening at a distance will be general in two years, if the confident expectations or some experts are realised. At a meeting of Baird Television, Ltd., in London, it was declared bv one speaker that television would soon be supplanting mere sound broadcasts. i Experts state that much progress has been made on the technical side, but, has been retarded by tbe need for more suitable wave-lengths. Lord Ampthill, who is chairman of Baird Television, Ltd., informed tlm shareholders that it was now possible to transmit scenes which included several persons; it was also possible tq broadcast specially written plays. It was hoped shortly to establish the broadcasting of television in England as a result of conferences with the British Broadcasting Corporation. The general technique of the system had been greatly improved, especially in connection with outdoor scenes, a notable broadcast being tbe last Derby. An improved form of television should soon be commercialised. Mr Baird phophesied that television had an immediate commercial future. He considered his system ahead of anything lie had recently seen in the United States, and he hoped to find the financial means of carrying on.