Evening star., 1941-03-20
Committee Defends
Proposed Standards
For TeIevision
Co-ordinuted Service
Would Result, F. c. c.
Is Told by DR.. Boxer

Proposed standards of operation
prepared by group of radio experts
forming the National Television
System Committee will result in a
nationally co-ordinated television
service, the Federal Communications
Commission was told today by DR..
w. R. G.. Baker of the General
Electric Co., committee chairman.
The commission today opened in
public hearings another phase of its
examination of the readiness of
television for commercial operation.
and found itself faced with the fact
that the committee, which it created,
offered practically the same stand
ards as those halted by the COM
mission a year ago.
DR.. Baker said the committee had
broadened its standards on syn
cronization to permit field tests of
several Interchangeable systems, but
he added that it had anticipated
that some one of these systems will
be found to be superior to the others
and so recommended at that time
that commission standards be mar
rowed to require commercial use of
that particular and superior system.
Groundwork Is Laid.
The morning session was given
over largely to hearing of testimony
and receiving exhibits from the
committee to lay the groundwork for
taking of evidence from companies
iy1t in io1i ta1a
vision. Fourteen firms and corpora
tions have signified they will offer
testimony
Dr. Baker and DR. G.. D. Fink,
managing editor of ElectronicS, were
examined closely as to the vote
taken on proposals offered during
the committees deliberations. There
has been a wide split in that part
of the radio industry engaged in
the development of television, each
trying to convince the commission
that its system is the one for which
standards should be adopted.
While the committee has recon-
mended standards which will pro-
duce a Synchronizing pulse which
will make it possible for receivers to
take any of the systems, it never
theless proposed that during the
commercialization period there be
carried out systematic, comparative
tests of all types of signals.
1t further proposed that these
tests be directed and co-ordinated
by an accredited committee of the
Radio Manufacturers Association,
or some other committee acceptable
to the F. c. c. and that on COM
pletion of these tests there be sub
mitted to the commission any modi-
flcations which might be found de-
sirable.
Little Difference in Number.
While the National Television
System Committee has recon-
mended 525 lines and 80 frames per
second for the picture transmission,
as against AL lines being used at
the time the commission rescinded
Its previously authorized CONNER
cialization, DR.. Fink testified that
1t was the consensus among those
who favored the 525-line picture that
1t made little difference as to the
number of lines chosen.
In addition to testifying that the
standards now proposed would re-
suit in a nationally co-ordinated
television service, DR.. Baker said
1t will at the same time insure con-
tinued development in the art. The
commission had expressed fear last
year that the Radio Corp of Amer
lea, in conducting a receiver sales
campaign, might result in a freezing
OF the art to the standards developed
by that company and approved by
the Radio Manufacturers Associa-
ton, and that it probably would pre-
clude any further developmental
work In televiSion.