TELEVISION POSSIBILITY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19246, 11 February 1937, Page 15

TELEVISION POSSIBILITY

AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND DISCUSSION BY EXPERTS (Reed. Feb. 10, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 9. How soon Anglo-AiiH~ralian cricket. tests may be televised was a question raised indirectly during tho Royal Empire Society's television night when Sir Noel Ashbridge, the British Broadcasting Company's engineering controller, gave an admirable.exposition of the system. A Post Office expert Colonel Angwin, revealed that already it was possible to transmit television" for long distances if it was not necessary to traverse tho seas or use radio. He said that such transmission was achievable by means of special concentric cables which presently would be laid from London as far north as Newcastle.

Sir Noel Ashbridge said that if they settled on a wave length of 12 metres they could succeed in modulating wide band frequencies. It was not beyond possibility, if tho conditions were right, to get a picture over-thousands of miles. There was a risk of distortion of signals in transit, but there always was a chance of somebody luckily hitting the right conditions and achieving results. Then the people would begin to ask when the British Broadcasting Company was going to give an Empire sorvice. Discussions following the meeting centred in the problem as to who would pay for laying concentric cables for thousands of miles for such a service.