"Television: the revolution," ([1944])

Record Details:

Title:
"Television: the revolution,"
Date:
[1944]
Publisher:
New York, Essential Books
Volume:
"Television: the revolution,"
Leaf #:
00045
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Prelinger Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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26 TELEVISION: THE REVOLUTION there may be a reshuffling of the kilocycles as- signed to the various broadcasting organiza- tions. If television gets broader chunks of the ultra-high frequencies, the way will be open for broadcasting pictures up to a thousand lines. This will mean home sight-radio of as fine qual- ity as the best motion pictures—comparable to magazine half-tones. Color television is almost ready. The process is simple. A whirling disc is set up in front of the television camera, and a similar one in front of the receiver screen. The discs are transparent, and divided into three segments, each tinted to one of the primary colors. At the transmitting end, the whirling disc televises one picture in red, the next in yellow, a third in blue. At the receiver, the other color-disc—exactly in step with the one at the transmitter—dyes the kine- scope screen successively red, yellow, and blue, to correspond with the monocolored images from the transmitter. What comes out is a per- fect fusing of all the colors of the spectrum, in their proper values. All video programs need not come from a studio. Field television service is steadily im- proving. For short transmissions—"remote"