TELEVISION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22487, 4 February 1935, Page 9

TELEVISION

A FORWARD STEP BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S ACTION (British Official Wireless.) • ([United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) * RUGBY, February 1. (Received Feb. 3, at 5.5 p.m.) ' Considerable public interest has been aroused by the decision of the Government to give practical effect without delay to the main recommendations of the Television Committee. It is about 10 years since pioneers succeeded, despite discouragement, in proving the possibility of transmitting sight as well as sound by wireless. Since then some thousands of experimenters in Great Britain hav.e availed themselves of the service the British Broadcasting Corporation already affords of " low definition " pictures on a very low wave length. While some newspapers express the view that the decision opens up a new era, they are guarded as to the pace with which developments may be expected. General approval is expressed at the broad lines of the Government's decision, and also of the centralising of control in the British Broadcasting Corporation.;

SUCCESSFUL TESTS TRANSMITTING ON SEVEN METRES ..-•/' . LONDON, February 1(Received Feb. 3, at 5.5 p.m.) . Baird Television, Ltd., to-day demonstrated television from the Crystal Palace, where, the company .has established an installation capable of transmitting over a radius of 30 miles. The demonstration included pictures of horses jumping, a boxing match, a lecture and also films. All the trials indicated an advance 'on previous displays transmitted on a wave length.of seven metres. The receiving set giving the picture was 12 inches by nine finches, and cost approximately £BO. Another, eight' inches by six inches, cost; approximately £SO. '.,.'