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Helnl Radio-Television News Service
9/13/50
This success of the U,N. on television has brought a wider popular interest in the world organization. Fan mail has greatly increased. Telephone lines to headquarters are often blocked during and after a televised Security Council meeting. Some callers, in direct American fashion, demand to speak personally to Mr. Malik, Attendance has greatly increased and television screens operate in four conference rooms, as well as in the delegates1 lounge, to accom¬ modate the crowds. As yet, all this television interest is limited to the United States and Britain, which have national networks, though proceedings are to be retelevised in France and (it is saidl) the Soviet Union. It may be a long time before U. N. proceedings are flashed by screen to remote areas, but eventually people in most parts of the world will be able to make this closer check on those who represent them.
Standardize TV Picture Tubes (Dr. 0. H. Caldwell "Radio and TV Retailing")
Now that most "doubting Thomases" are willing to concede that television, like the automobile, is here to stay, and since man¬ ufacturers have had several years in which to develop "know-how", it would be well to take steps to standardize some of the loose-ends in this new giant industry. As a case in point, one of the greatest problems today is that of the large number of different picture tube types now being made and marketed. For example, there are more than 20 different types of 16-in. round tubes and four types of 16-in. rectangular tubes. Likewise, there are seven different 19~in. round types and two re ct angular s.
The sad part of the story is that none of the different types in a given size are directly interchangeable, and therefore, aside from the pyramiding of manufacturing facilities required to produce them, the situation in the replacement market is rapidly approaching the chaotic. Such a wide variety of available tube types which do the same job is certainly Inconsistent for efficient mass production and completely out of line when considered in the light of the current national emergency. The distributors, dealers and ser¬ vicemen are confronted with either heavy inventories, shortages, or loss of consumer good-will, because "adapting" can be a costly pro¬ cedure. Yet, oddly enough, the differences between the various types in any given size are relatively minor; some only involving a slight change in a physical dimension.
Recent announcements refer to an entirely new crop of pic¬ ture tubes, such as the 17-in. "diagonal" metal rectangular (about the same screen size as a 16-in. round), 19, 22, 24 and 30 in. sizes as becoming available during the latter part of 1950 and during 1951* If past performance be any basis for judgment, so far as production and consumer demand is concerned, then it is high time that some pro¬ tective and adequate standards be developed. We believe that such standards could restrict the number of tube types to no more than two for any given tube size.
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