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

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"WHAT DO YOU EXPECT IN TELEVISION" 31 word than any other type of entertainer. The viewing audience is going to have a great deal to say in deciding exactly what blueprint this entertainment revolution is about to follow. From a technical point of view, what is going to satisfy the public? Before the war there were several thousand television receivers in the met- ropolitan New York area. These receivers were adjusted for a five-hundred-and-twenty-five-line image. The watcher-listeners seemed quite well satisfied with a picture of this quality. However, it seems that the electronic laboratories may have thousand-line television readied for us within a few years; and after viewers have seen a thousand-line image, they will never again be satisfied with less. This may discourage the many ingenious mechanical systems of television scanning. But the machinery for high-definition scanning by mirror drums is too intricate and cumbersome for John Jones' living room. How about screen-size? If, as we believe, television is going to be an intimate medium in the living room of your home, there is not much likelihood that more than a handful of people will be watching the screen at a given time. For small audiences—a half dozen or less—a six-