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THE issue of Television and Short Wave World of December makes some critical comments on the programmes that have been transmitted from the Alexandra Palace. Complaints are made that intervals, sometimes totalling more than fifteen minutes, occur in a programme of an hour. These intervals are usually filled up by gramophone records, but the owner of the set feels that it is extravagant to run about twenty valves together with a cathode ray tube merely to hear these records. It is unfair to be too critical in the early stages of development, but it looks as if more should be spent on the programmes. Television receivers are being advertised for immediate delivery at prices ranging from 85 to 135 guineas, the picture size being about 12 in. by 9 in. Free demonstrations are given by various manufacturers in London. The Science Museum is still giving demonstrations, and the Southern Railway is giving demonstrations at Waterloo Station to railway ticket holders. Carrington House, a large block of flats in Mayfair, has been equipped for ‘bulk reception’ of television signals and of ordinary broadcast programmes. The building contains seventy-three flats each of which is fitted with plug points for both kinds of services. The residents of any of these flats can purchase a television or a radio set or both with confidence that the programmes will be produced without interference. It is possible that the actual Coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey may be televized. The two great difficulties are relaying the signals to the Alexandra Palace and the provision of the necessary bright light.
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Television in the London Area. Nature 138, 962 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138962a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138962a0