TELEVISION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18661, 22 March 1935, Page 13

TELEVISION

»n. INSTALLED IN KNCLISTT HOMES Sydney, Match in. Professor V. A. P.niloy, Assoc into Professor of Physics at the Sydney University, returned to Sydney by the Orsova, after n visit to the United Kingdom. He said that while in 'England he met television experts who believed that this form of radio development would become n commercial proposition and would be available to the working man in about three or four vrars. Television apparatus was now installed in a number of homes in England, but it was available only to a few people who could afford the high cost of installation. Efforts were being made to discover ,a means of confining television to present modern radio sets, and thus prevent the wholesale scrapping of existing radio receiving apparatus when the picture side of the broadcasting came into popular use. A great deal of scientific research had yet to bo carried out before television was brought to a state of perfection. (Professor Bailey said that it was not possible to cut out static on longwave receiving radio sets. It was possible to reduce static by reducing the wave length, or by altering the station's position, but it could not be eliminated altogether. English broadcasting listeners were more fortunate than those in Australia, because they had a remarkable choice of programmes. Although there were some people in England who complained of the 8.8. C. being autocratic, the people generally -were satisfiod with the high standard of programmes produced.