Cinema Screen Television

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 238, 8 October 1936, Page 10

Cinema Screen Television

The difficulties of showing television pictures on a full-size cinema screen have been triumphantly overcome. The work has been done in a London laboratory, says the London “Obserer’s” Television correspondent. The size of the pictures wo have been promised when television really starts in this country is about thirteen by eleven inches. Large enough for a few people to look at together in a private house, and that is all. The size seems about the limit possible with the cathode-ray tube-receiver, to which most manufacturers have pinned their faith. The pictures seen last week—the first demonstration to be given to anyone outside the Scophony laboratories in Kensington—were, however, five feet by four feet. The screen was adequately illuminated and the definition was

good. 1 gathered frvin Mr bagull, thf managing director of Scophony, Ltd., that 1 was receiving their medium receiver, intended for use in halls, stores, schools and large houses. In another room was a larger machine of exactly the same type as the medium instrument, and facing it a screen that would take a picture 16 feet by 12 feet—full cinema size. Alter these big instruments the “home receiver” seemed a simplo thing to look at, but it put up an excellent show. The pictures are good, and have a quality about them—perhaps “smoothness” describes it—which) I have not seen in the best cathodes ray receivers. The light is good, really remarkable, seeing that the light source is a small filament lamp, and the whole thing is worthy of the very best the 8.8. C. can give us, when th«v qfart work.