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Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1935, Page 4

Though it may scorn odd to the public that television has been so long on the way, to tins technician on the other hand, the reason has not he.cn .a.- to seek, lie has long ago diagnosed the inherent difficulty of transmitting and transforming extremely complicated signals; of coping, in fat. with the wealth of changing detail that makes up an accept,able representation of a moving picture. Yet, m spite of tlie inherent technical difficulties, truly remark,a,hie progress ‘with television has recently been made in Great Britain, and it is apparent in the Report of the Selsdon Committee published last month. The Post-master-General has paid the best possible tribute to the report bv adopting the committee’s main recommendations. He informed the House of Commons that a television service would he brought into operation as soon as possible. The degree of definition necessary for pictures worthy for inclusion in a general programme has frequently been debated; hut the committee has been able to agree inspecifying a minimum standard for

the quality of definition and of tne speed of transmission. In the opinion of the committee the time may come when a service of broadcasting entirely unaccompanied by television will be almost as rare as the silent cinema film is to-day, but that in genera,l sound must always remain the more important factor. Consequently the production of television must not be allowed to hamper the continued evolution of broadcasting with sound. Perhaps, tlm most difficult problem has been that of deciding whether the television service in its infancy should he entrusted to private enterprise or to the British Broadcasting Corporation. The committee lias acted wisely i M choosing the latter, and it has already received a welcome assurance that the corporation is fully prepared to accept the responsibility and wholeheartedly to take up the development of television as a means of public entertainment.