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1949 STATEMENT ON THEATER TELEVISION 357
Since the answers to some of the above questions are interrelated, no attempt has been made to separate them in the following statement. However, they are summarized briefly and in order, together with a few concluding remarks, at the end of this statement.
The following statements attempt to justify on technical grounds the views of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers favoring the allocation at this time of frequencies for commercial theater television use. Consideration of desirable picture quality and the related requirements for bandwidths and channels, as well as various service classifications of a nation-wide theater television service, are included.
PICTURE QUALITY — Theater television programs must be presented to the public on the basis of picture size and quality not likely to be attained in the home. Theater patrons have come to take for granted the superior detail and quality of present-day motion pictures and if they are to be served adequately, theater television must plan to present ultimately television pictures of detail and quality comparable to what they have become accustomed to expect. In addition, theater viewing conditions tend to suppress outside distractions, focusing the viewer's attention on the screen with the result that he becomes increasingly conscious of structural details of the picture.
Program material suitable for showing in theaters and auditoriums will eventually need the addition of color. Although monochrome broadcast service in the home has proved of ^extensive interest to the American public so far, and at the outset theater television will also be monochrome, the theaters should ultimately present high-quality color television pictures in a reasonably advanced state of development.
It should not be assumed that high-detail monochrome or color I television for theater use is to be anticipated in the immediate future, i On the contrary, theater television should evolve from the present [•broadcast standards of 525-line monochrome pictures to pictures of I greater resolution and in color as new equipment and improved methods are made available. It is emphasized that immediate theater television operation must be based on the capabilities of equipment that exists today, but if future technical growth which is of critical importance to the long-term and stable success of theater television is to be allowed, these developments should not be hampered by severely restricting channel and bandwidths at this time.
BANDWIDTHS AND CHANNELS — If a competitive nation-wide theater