TELEVISION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 225, 22 September 1928, Page 9

TELEVISION.

WITH HUMAN VOICE

Baird Gives A Demonstration

In London.

SPEECH HEARD PERFECTLY.

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)

(Received 2 p.m.)

LONDON, September 21

Television, synchronised with the human voice, is an accomplished fact. Mr. J. L. Baird to-day televised scenes enacted at a studio three-quarters of a mjle distant from a house in the West End of London, where spectators watched the operator turn a knob, making the image of a man appear on a glass screen.: The man opened his mouth and said, "Good afternoon" as clearly as if he were in the room. The spectators then telephoned to the studio and asked the man to sing. Immediately his expression changed and he sang a negro spiritual. There was a slight flicker on the glass screen, but the vision was as perfect as a cinema film a decade ago. Mi*. Baird states that distance makes no difference. The experiment could be repeated across the Atlantic, though atmospherics might interfere with voice transmission, as they do with ordinary radio messages across the Atlantic.