The Future of Radio

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 25, 4 January 1929, Page 31

The Future of Radio

The Role of Television

How the mind delights to wander into the unfolding future to see the world as the forthcoming genera~tion will see it. The wilder the suggestions the bétter the: mind appreciates them, and why not, for is not the speculation of to-day the realisation of to-morrow, and the impossible, does it not become the accomplished? Wireless to-day has exceeded the expectations of all but the Jules Verne of yestérday, little wonder then that we in turn, turn bewildered from a mize of possibilities that ate almost daily thrust upon us. To say that wireless is going to revolutionise would be, it is felt, making an unjust claim: only vety few of man’s creations have been subject to such & change. Progvress is by steady advancement-éevo-lution-and so the following suggéstions from an Australian journal lose nothing in their apparent impossibility. Television and "Movies." HILE our rudio brings us only sound to-day, in present-day laboratories sight transmission is an ac. complished fact. It only remains now to reduce it to a practical form to inaké it available to the public. Talking "movies" in the home is also just around the corner. At the start this device will be actuated through the use of individual film records; later, as a sefvice of the broadcasting station. Apparatus is now developed in practical form whereby a meéssage or picture can be transmitted in facsimile form-in other words, as a typewritten page or picturé. This is an entirely new and revolutionary system of télegraphic commiinication. The Televox. HIS agency opens up other avenues whose development can be farreaching. The time will come when, combined with the ‘Melévox, it will be poxsible to arrange a device for use as 4 brondeust receiver that will automatically tuke the message ftom the brondeasting station in facsimile form in other words, a8 a printed con muthication. Progress in this direction is inevitable; its future is assured, and it will bring to the home the panorama of life of the gteat world outside. Pethups the greatest benefit that may uterue to light and power companies from radio is the improvement of knowledge of eléctri¢ phenomena which will bring about a better under standing of the genetation, transmis: sion, and control of electric power.